NVIDIA has been bragging about the complex and diverse nature of the G80 architecture since the launch and when ATI showed off the power of its General Purpose GPU, among others through support for folding@home, NVIDIA said that it would venture for something similar very soon. AMD chose to releaunch its Radeon X1950 XTX as a Stream Computing processor and now it seems that NVIDIA will do something very similar. NVIDIA calls its concept “GPU Computing” and just like Stream Computing the idea is to use the graphics processor for other things than just rendering graphics.
Rumors state that NVIDIA is about to launch a G80 circuit in June, but that this one is for the GPU Computing market and the target is the professional market where parallel graphics power is highly appreciated.
“Nvidia says the GPU computing business will focus on high-performance computing, a market in which multimillion-dollar supercomputers and banks of interconnected servers plow through massive amounts of data to simulate nuclear blasts, uncover oil and gas deposits and run complex financial models.”
