>Well, to be fair, it's more a comment on Intel's progress than Apple's.
>Can you? The CPU alone is unbelievably expensive. Two high-end GPUs are not cheap either.
In the context of this thread topic of, "wow 7 teraflops used to cost millions and now you can put it on your desktop with a mac pro" yes, you can get those same numbers with even less money. A computer with two 7970s is 7 teraflops and those particular cards retail for 300.
A quad 780 GPU configuration would cost 4 or 5 k and get you even more impressive stats, at 16+ teraflops it crushes those cray numbers.
>Can you? The CPU alone is unbelievably expensive. Two high-end GPUs are not cheap either.
In the context of this thread topic of, "wow 7 teraflops used to cost millions and now you can put it on your desktop with a mac pro" yes, you can get those same numbers with even less money. A computer with two 7970s is 7 teraflops and those particular cards retail for 300.
A quad 780 GPU configuration would cost 4 or 5 k and get you even more impressive stats, at 16+ teraflops it crushes those cray numbers.