Sweeney: 5000 TFLOPS to reach "reality"

[darkknightkryta]

Netyaroze said:

Jup thats true. Its amazing how much ressources Avatar graphics need but there is still hope.

A  lets say 300 tflop chip is way more efficent than a 300 tflop renderfarm that spreads the workload over 30000 CPUs. The ways of communicating between the chips takes ages compared to a single chip and the overhead is gigantic. A 300 tflop chip could do that work faster than 1 hour. But still not fast enough for games I guess, atleast not with movie production standards. 

There's more too it than that.  I think games can match Avatar graphics pretty quickly.  The trick is LOD systems.  Avatar probably isn't using any, everything's rendered in high res regardless.  Atleast that's what I suspect.