Nvidia has announced their new GTX 280 and 260 GPU chips. The 280 and 260 increase the number of SPs up to 240 and 192 while the width of the interface to device memory has increased to 512 and 448 bits, respectively. (The older 8800 GTX has 128 SPs and a 384-bit wide memory interface.)
Here is a blog posting with a picture of the GTX 280 chip.
[...] — llpanorama @ 5:50 am A column by Kevin Morris, editor of the FPGA Journal, discusses the new Nvidia GPU offerings. Here’s my response about why GPUs will kill-off the use of field-programmable gate arrays [...]
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