3.5 out of 5

At the closing ceremony of NVIDIA’s nvision 08 Visual Computing “Conference”, read: multi-day über marketing event, Adam and Jamie of Mythbusters demonstrated the difference between traditional CPU processing and GPU processing by painting with a 1 ball paintball gun and a gigantic 1000 ball paintball gun (videos can be found on YouTube).

I’d be interested to know how much NVIDIA spent on this presentation – not to mention the entire event. They did have a big pile of sponsors also involved as well, so it wasn’t all on NVIDIA. None the less, the entire event seemed pretty well done. They had a good group of special guests and speakers as well as some interesting sounding presentations. Show guide PDF