It's commonly accepted that the US billion is the international standard now i.e. 1000 million not a million million.
My bets are 3.0 billion for the symbolism; although if it really is 16 clusters of 32 cores it could potentially be 6.0 billion...
it's 495mm^2 on the 40nm process.. 3.18b transistors- but were talking nvidia here, so they will have that on die and disable 600 million for rebrand action
O RLY? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The use of MIMD shaders add an extra dimension of complexity, in calculating possible transistor counts.
Mathematicians do. The point is that milion (M for mono) is 1.000.000, Bilion is the second power of that number, Trilion the third power, quadrilion is 4, quintilion is 5, etc etc. the whole idea of a government that chooses to use the dumbed down version over the scientific one while handling our bilions somehow gives me the creeps
Mathematicians are an abstract bunch. The rest of us in the real world just use it for every multiple of 1000. It might not be perfectly correct, but that's the way it is. Besides, it's easier to say "Two billion dollars" rather than "Two thousand million dollars". Most folks don't hear about spending in the region of 1012 of something.
See not everything is bigger in the US of A. And like many things, the French are to blame When the Italian Lira was alive, you really needed the long scale!
hey you guys going to get this phantom monster reviewed anytime in 2009? or is it a pure paper launch to spoil ati's real card =] anything on engineering samples
To avoid any confusion between long- and short-scale 'billion', you should use the SI prefixes giga- or tera- for 1e9 and 1e12 respectively. e.g. 3 gigatransistors
Wild guess: 2 953 468 723. That's approx. 2.9x10^9. Epic facepalm if I guess correctly in any degree.
Like any of us are going to be able to best a guess from Tim "I luuuurve GPUs sooooo much" Smalley 2.8bn
The UK officially dropped the long scale in 1974, and since I was born way after that I have only known the short scale, or a billion to mean 1000 million, so I don't really think it's a UK-US thing any more, but more of a generational thing held over from the 20th Century. Get with the program old people!
