athalius

I wasn't trying to make a baseline strength comparison, I was more curious about where the 12 figure came from. I was under the impression that Tegra 3 was a quad or dual core gpu ( turns out according to http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-superchip.html its an 8 core gpu ).

12 core GPU? Am I missing something here? I thought even the IPad was only quad core?

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage

Mr Attwood has a point, in that average Joe certainly doesn't need to program in order to understand their domain better. But I would ask rather then, how can one educate people on how machines work other than writing code ( I seem to remember what little was done in my education about computing, taught me little about the practicality of why in a machine )