Intel Demonstrates Haswell Processors at IDF

[alxianthelast]

Oddly the only thing I care about Haswell making possible in the mobile space is an Oculus Rift type HDM, wireless and standalone device capable of running 720p quality apps/games in 3D at 60fps per eye.

AR with binocular vision with such a device would be.. potentially incredible. Wouldn't even mind a little fanny battery pack if this could happen in the next 6-8 months.

 

[techguy911]

We already know that in its quad-core GT3 configuration, Haswell will offer 2x the GPU performance of Intel's HD 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT4). What Intel didn't say however is that Haswell's ULV GT3 parts will offer around 30% better GPU performance than Ivy Bridge ULV GT2.

Thats twice the frame rates people and 10% on the cpu while using less power and creating less heat.
So yes it will make a large impact on gaming.

Intel ran Unigen on a Haswell reference platform at 2x the frame rate of an Ivy Bridge system. Alternatively you could run at the same performance but using half the power on Haswell.

Then there is TSX it will run games much better than the current architecture for even more performance on multiple cores ivy bridge does not have this either it's icing on the cake.

 

[Belardo]

[citation][nom]mr grim[/nom]Sorry but I love Intel and as far as I am concerned they have never let us down and always delivered solid performance and great overclocks ~~[/citation] You are quite wrong. P3, Core2, i5-2~~~ are great products. But intel has their screw ups and anti-competitive business practices (threatening to punish companies if they sold AMD CHIPs buy not providing the supply - Dell)

Screw ups of intel:
- Pentium 4 (Netburst) was already crap... even at 3.8Ghz, an AMD at $600 cheaper price at 2.2Ghz would be the faster CPU.

- Socket 423 (first 3-4 models of the Pentium 4 - in which there was ZERO upgrade path, yet marketed "Buy the Pentium 4 for the future". As they promised faster models in the 2.0Ghz+ would be the ones to get... which were not plug compatible with the first P4 systems.

- ATX 1.0 Power Supplies: Intel forgot that HEAT RISES... the IDEA was to have the top-mounted PSU draw in AIR and blow it DOWN onto the Pentium II CPU (looks like a game cartridge) - then the hot AIR was to somehow blow out the bottom air-vent... and if your PC was on your desk - that meant your hand.
Intel forgot HEAT RISES!! pretty damn stupid, eh?

ATX 1.1 PSUs came out many months later. I remember my first ATX-Case/Slot1 system... it over-heated all the TIME (it has a 3Dfx Voodoo1 card) - I had to use the computer with the side-cover OFF, back in those days - computer fans were so very very LOUD. When the new PSUs started coming out, I quickly replaced it (RMA - recall) and was able to put the cover back on.

So yea, the PSU would take cool air, warm it up and BLOW it onto a HOT CPU... the heat would stagnate near the top.

- Intel router / HUB line of products... oh, they are gone now.

Hey, I still only trust Intel branded SSDs and I'm quite happy with the power/performance of their desktop CPUs.

 

[Belardo]

[citation][nom]menigmand[/nom]Well put, Belardo.I often forget how much trouble computers were in the 90's, when they seemed to crash all the time, but I still miss the times when every couple of years, whole new worlds seemed to open up, and I would dream about what games for example would look like in the year 2000.. or the year 2010.. Now when I think about the future, I see games very much like the ones we have now.[/citation] Oh, by all means - I know what you mean... like when the internet was NEW in the mid~late 90s. When 3D gaming was NEW in 2000. (UT99 / Quake).

Looking at 3D gaming in 2008 vs 2012, I'm not REALLY seeing anything different. Nor am I seeing anything in the next 4 years. UE4.0 has some nice visuals (check out video: Unreal 4 Engine Development Demo). Its very close to Final Fantasy/Toy Story quality graphics.

I think the next BIG thing will be the PS5 era around 2016+, when graphics power is about 4x more powerful than they are today... then maybe after 2030, we may have some form of VR Gaming. No monitors required... THAT is the ultimate goal.

When you can SEE, Smell and FEEL yourself in the game. We'll all be very old by then. (60yrs) but we can play in a VR would in which we are/feel like we're in our 20s. The Porn industry will make billions and birth-rates will finally plummet to stabilize human population.

Check out the video "20000 days in space" - heheh...

 

[Belardo]

Another example of improvements in technology.

Imagine flying in an airplane built in 1910.... vs 1940 vs 2000. Which do you think is more reliable?

 

[Guest]

Oh, yay, another motherboard change, LGA 1156, to 1155 and next 1150. Intel, Stahp!

 

[nebun]

what is considered a convertible design for laptop??? i am a little confused here