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Re:Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer by mrb on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @04:29PM (#5560683)
The AMD Radeon HD 7790 ($150) does 21 GFLOPS/Watt. So I would say Adapteva is definitely comparable to GPUs in this approximate price range.
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Re:Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer by marshray on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @10:58PM (#5562397)
And that's just at the Kickstarter price. GPUs have had decades of competition to squeeze the extra costs out and build up economies of scale.
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