Gizmodo has a small post on the new Radeon R680 here, and essentially says the speed of it is equivalent to 1000x cray-1 supercomputers.  Whenever I read something like this, it always boggles my mind.  The Cray one was first installed in 1976.

Thinking about that, I wonder what it would be like to go back in time only 30 years, and talk to those developers.

“In 30 years, we will have computers that are a thousand times faster just to make our games look prettier”.