For scientific and computer-graphics calculations, performance is measured in FLOPS : number of floating-point math operations per second.
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:: : : : : Well, GPUs can be used for non-graphics calculations, be at least a few ( if not a few hundred ) times faster than CPUs.
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Napatech�s accelerators allow for off-loading of I / O as well as CPU-intensive functions of network tasks, in a similar way that PC video cards or graphics accelerators do with graphics calculations.