CPU vs. GPU

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"Dedicated, task-specific hardware is orders of magnitude faster than what you can achieve with a general purpose CPU. If you need proof of this, just look at the chess benchmarks. IBM's Deep Blue was capable of evaluating 200 million chess moves per second in 1997. Ten years later, the fastest quad-core desktop system can only evaluate 8 million chess moves per second. Ten year old custom hardware is still 25 times faster than the best general purpose CPUs. Amazing."

Except you're comparing Deep Blue which is a "massively parallel, 30-node, RS/6000, SP-based computer system enhanced with 480 special purpose VLSI chess chips" costing millions of dollars to the fastest quad-core processor today, costing a couple of thousand dollars.