that's right boy and girls, get those tax refunds ready:
http://www.legitreviews.com/nvidia-rumors-first-maxwell-gpu-coming-february-geforce-gtx-750ti_134079
you're looking at a card in the $150-$170 range.
as for what makes this card so special, read this:
http://www.techpowerup.com/196956/nvidia-readies-geforce-gtx-750-ti-based-on-maxwell.html
the chip is a Soc design combining standard nvidia gpu features along with a dual core general purpose ARMv8 based processor. googling around reveals the "denver" cores are 7 was superscaler, meaning they can execute 7 instruction simultaneously per core (compare that with 4 instructions per core under normal conditions for intel processors).
basically for $150 you can add a second computer to your computer, a tech savvy user could in theory install and run a linux distro onto the card, install some clustering software and have a small cluster in one pc.
game engines could run the entire game on this card, the possibilities are endless.
originally this chip was going to employ code morphing technology (nvidia bought transmeta years ago) and support both the ARMv8 and x86 instruction set but intel almost crapped bricks and refused to extend nvidia's x86 licensing deal to include building cpu's.
still, this is one of the few times where a piece of hardware can truly be thought of as "future proof", depending on how many developers actually take advantage of all that horsepower and release software for it.
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