Could this be a future for GPU Folding?

[doppler56]

Ray tracing at 200X todays GPU performance:
http://www.techpowerup.com/87830/New_Co ... phics.html

Link within from the cards company:
http://www.caustic.com/company_press-releases.php

This maybe something to look into. The costs for such a card, has got to be out of this world. A few years down the
road the cost may make the card obtainable.

[jaak ennuste]

I believe, that this card is not increasing cards arithmetic FLOPS power, but uses much better algorithms for ray tracing and other graphics specific functions. Its just new quality in graphics ray tracing HW acceleration, compare to PHYSX acceleration. F@H uses GPU like multitude of simple CPU-s, not graphics functions like ray tracing etc.

So, my bet is that it is not the future of GPU folding.

Jaak

[Foxery]

This company built a whole new chip specifically for ray-tracing. It's not a programmable GPU like the ones we use for Folding or for gaming.