On the other hand, any attempts by CPUs to handle real time 3D graphics really quickly have, up to now, faltered miserably. So, neither have CPUs replaced GPUs, nor have GPUs come much closer to replacing CPUs. How far along is each camp now? And how will they perform within our crystal ball's prediction capacity horizon of, say six months from now? Let's look at the most favourite common metric between the two camps - the GFLOPS peak floating-point instruction rate, in double-precision of course.