Graphic cards and super computing - Computers, Math, Science ...

The Stanford Folding@Home team would have the best answer for that... SETI@Home (I believe) and Bitcoin Mining also use the immense computational power of modern video cards to significantly increase the computation power. (Although at much higher wattage than a CPU will.)

nVidia has also taken it a step further in the last couple years to allow 3rd-party developers the ability to access the video card's power to improve the software with CUDA. (I believe AMD has a version of this as well but it's at a much smaller scale and not used as often or as effectively.) Some programs like Photoshop benefit from a fast video card's CUDA cores like extra processors. (Many diddlyboobs think more video RAM equals more speed - it doesn't, it's all the amount and speed of CUDA cores.)

Results certainly vary.
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