Japanese firm hits 800 Teraflops with new ray-tracing GPU
A Japanese company, TOPS Systems Corporation, has created a massive 800 Teraflop real-time ray-tracing (RTRT) system which involves nine separate 73-core chips in a single-card system which fits inside a traditional desktop form factor. The chips are 45nm ASICs “ganged together via some unspecified interconnect scheme”, dubbed TOPSTREAM SoC, and each nine-chip grouping consumes only [...]
