Heh… Straight from Anandtech:

http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/video/NVIDIA/Badaboom/cuda2.jpg

“The performance advancements were incredible, NVIDIA was promising upwards of 100x gains over the fastest workstation CPUs. Unfortunately we couldn’t get too terribly excited as most of these applications were far beyond the reach of the typical desktop user. Medical imaging and scientific analysis benefitted tremendously from GPU acceleration, but it’s rare that a gamer with a $400 GPU is going to be searching for oil deposits in his/her spare time on the same machine.”

I don’t know; the gains on matrix multiplication, sequence matching, and the FFT are quite appealing to me… but so is being able to run new games quickly 🙂

Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure these gains are going to require use of a special API to realize. So until Matlab integrates CUDA, they may be a ways off.