Nvidia Predicts 570X GPU Performance Increase

[GullLars]

[citation][nom]LeJay[/nom]The square root of 16 is 4.[/citation]
And 2,0(tflops)*2^6 = 128(tflops). (anual doubling of flops leading to 128 in 6 years.)

 

[jjobaber]

Hasn't anybody read Kurzweil's book on Law of Accelerating returns - the rate of technological advancment is exponentially increasing. The CPU processing power used to double every 4 years, then 2, now it's less than a year and so on.

Same is happening with the GPUs as well as other technologies - now I am not saying that 6 years from now the GPUs will be 560x faster - but the rate of progress six years from now will be MUCH greater than the last 6 years (due to law of accelerating returns).

Us human beings tend to think in a linear fashion - predicting the future based on how long things took to develop in the past - and technology doesn't follow those trends.