Considerations - Final

Recalling what was said in the beginning of this article, the GF100 architecture was developed by nVIDIA taking into consideration the GPU computing needs. An example of this is the integration of different cache levels, which have consequences when the card is used in a graphic environment, but also in general purpose tasks.

Wih the evolution of nVIDIA architectures, from the G80 to the GT200 and up to now the GF100, it’s clear how the importance of GPU Computing has grown in terms of architectural choices. It didn’t come despite the gaming purposes of a card, but it’s clear how nVIDIA sees the evolution of the graphic card world as offering great gaming performances, but also the possibility of using the video chipset to perform tasks that were always usually assigned to the CPU.