When the MythBusters shill for the Man, they do it in style. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were hired by Nvidia to demonstrate the speed differences between CPU and GPU processing.
First, we see the pedestrian "CPU" in the form of a one-pixel-at-a-time paint gun. Painfully slowly, a smiley face trickles onto the canvas.
Next, the "GPU", represented by the truly awesome "2100 massively parallel barrel processors", a huge paint gun with 2100 barrels spitting paint all at once. The results is a pixelized rendition of the Mona Lisa sprayed onto a wood-reinforced canvas. Total time elapsed? 275 ms. Watch to the very end to see the slow-mo version.
Mythbusters duo launches new GeForce, codenamed Mona Lisa [TG Daily Via BBG]
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