The net effect is about 12 to 54 percent faster game performance than NVIDIA's current mobile speed champion, the GTX 680M, and up to four times the general computing prowess in OpenCL. The 8970M is more than up to the task of powering up to 4K in one screen, and it can handle up to six screens if there are enough ports.

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Linux is typically seen in two- and four-processor servers and is often feared to be too unstable to handle big, critical computing chores.

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These companies and others are taking advantage of very positive trends like cloud computing, which according to IDC will create 8.8 million jobs over the next four years.

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