I’ve been fiddling around Nvidia’s CUDA these last few days. And I am very impressed so far.
For example, I need a few days to get 100 folding@home points when I’m using the CPU. Using my 8600GT boosted my score to 800 overnight, which is entirely impressive.
It proves that a GPU can work much faster in some applications than a CPU. Much, much faster. It is very fast that I think there is a mistake somewhere, but no, it really is that fast.
I am currently thinking to upgrade my video card. I’m eyeing to buy a Radeon HD 4670, but I’m not going to drop the 8600GT. I have a spare PCIex4 slot, and the 8600GT will continue folding there.
It’s great to have a supercomputing power at home, let me tell you.
