2019’s Consoles Will Be As Fast as Today’s Supercomputers, Says Nvidia
Published: January 01, 0001 | Author: A.I. Nexus | Category: Financial Strategy
You’ve heard of flops, a.k.a floating point operations per 
second, before in video game circles. Who can forget the riveting moment in former Sony exec Ken Kutaragi’s all yono app 2005 E3 PS3 presentation when he talked about how many gigaflops the system’s processors would be capable of? Boring tech presentations aside, flops are great indicators of computing power. Today’s consoles sit in the gigaflop range but, according to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, they’ll go rummy get exponentially more powerful in less than a decade.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); PCWorld has the exec saying speeds of 41.5 teraflops will be attainable by 2019. Today, it takes a specially built, energy-intensive supercomputer to achieve that but 
these proposed future machines will run off standard 100-watt power grid. What does that mean in terms of performance? Well, real-time graphics in future consoles will look as good as the best pre-rendered 
cutscenes in today’s games. And that’s just for starters. So, 2019 can’t get here soon enough. Nvidia: Gaming Systems to Reach ‘Tens of Teraflops’ by holy rummy 2019 [PC World]