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rys on April 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer

You can get close to 1TF in the GPU space for $99 these days, but at much lower power efficiency. The Adapteva hardware looks to be around 18GF/W, whereas a GPU is about half that at $99.

mrb on April 16, 2013 [–]

The AMD Radeon HD 7790 ($150) does 21 GFLOPS/Watt. So I would say Adapteva is definitely comparable to GPUs in this approximate price range.

marshray on April 17, 2013 | [–]

And that's just at the Kickstarter price. GPUs have had decades of competition to squeeze the extra costs out and build up economies of scale.

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