Advantages
According to an AMD-demonstrated system with two dual-core AMD Opteron processors and two Radeon R600 GPU cores running on Microsoft Windows XP Professional, 1 teraflop (TFLOP) can be achieved by a universal multiply-add (MADD) calculation. By comparison, an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0 GHz processor at the time could achieve 48 GFLOPS.
Recent demonstrations showed that, in Kaspersky SafeStream anti-virus scanning tests optimized for AMD stream processors, the system with two AMD stream processors with dual Opteron processors spotted 6.2 Gbit/s (775 MiB/s) bandwidth, 21 times faster when compared to other dual-processor systems. The stream processor systems also showed only 1-2% CPU use, which indicates significant offloading from the CPU to the stream processor.
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