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On Feb 12, 10:14=A0am, Greg Heath <he...@alumni.brown.edu> wrote:
> Got an ad in my email. Does anyone have any coments re this?
>
> Greg

Another group I belong to discuss this topic about 6 months ago.  At
that time the conclusion was Nvidia's GPU only did single precision
floating point math.  If things haven't changed in 6 months then it
appears the performance gain of a GPU is over rated.

Howard