Mythbusters at NVISION 2008

San Jose, Ca Aug 27, 2008
jamie and adam from mythbusters showing the difference between a cpu and a gpu through robots

their previous robot demonstrated a cpu with a tiny robot as adam described it to perform a series of discreet actions to make a big picture. basically, a single paintball gun attached to a robot arm. each shot resembles a single pixel taking about 20 seconds to show the big picture.

this robot demonstrated how a gpu works. instead of a single robot arm and one paintball gun, there were 1100 guns attached to four high powered air compressors. each paintball would fire across 7 feet of space and within 80 milliseconds the canvas would show the mona lisa

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[BillyBobsEel]

imagine being shot by that in a paintball game...

[Freak730]

i hate u so bad right now for yelling "DO IT"

u fag

[braeuni]

@ravikiran bullshit

[greysky65]

WTF

[ravikiran]

Graphics Processing Unit.

NVIDIA is the inventor of GPU.

[carlchristophn]

what does a GPU stand for?

[Arkuray]

At making pictures

[ravikiran]

To prove that a GPU is more powerful than CPU.

[RtFusion]

This is an over simplification of CPU power vs GPU power. But great nontheless.