Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs Will Play Blu-ray 3D

[Marcus Yam]

Intel's best attempt at IGPs yet.

Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs Will Play Blu-ray 3D : Read more

 

[willgart]

Good to know.
is there a new 3D standard to come? or does it the same of an existing technology?

 

[Albyint]

Mobile? 3d on a phone? Lulz...

 

[peterkidd]

I think that picture is from the porno Avatar. Is that on purpose?

 

[tramit]

It looks like it will become harder and harder to justify a 300 dollar video card now that I play games less...

 

[scook9]

Intel has been needing to step up its IGP efforts....AMD/ATI has been squashing them in that space....

 

[TheStealthyOne]

Tramit, you seriously consider buying expensive video cards and you barely game? >__>

 

[sacre]

Could only imagine watching people try and find an insert for Blu Ray discs on a Blackberry

 

[Hilarion]

I'm not taking bets on it improving regular graphics requirements. It does sound interesting though. Even if I would never be likely to buy one.

 

[Agges]

[citation][nom]thestealthyone[/nom]Tramit, you seriously consider buying expensive video cards and you barely game? >__>[/citation]

thestealthyone, six months ago I bought a Vapor-X 5870 for my new built - in the time since then I have barely played 20 hours.. Should probably take a holiday soon!

 

[hamstamps]

The thing is that you would have to purchase a 3-D compatible video card and monitor to go with it.

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]tramit[/nom]It looks like it will become harder and harder to justify a 300 dollar video card now that I play games less...[/citation]

So get a $100 video card, it'll get the job done to fit your needs just as well.

 

[lukeiamyourfather]

Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer confirmed that Sandy Bridge mobile chips will have the capability for Blu-ray 3D, which hopefully translates into greater 3D graphics performance too.

It doesn't.

 

[g00fysmiley]

my only question on this would be compatibility with other gpus. AMD has siad they will be allowing the on chip gpu crossfire with a graphics card. it is very unlikely that intel will have this one chip competing with ati/nvidias offerings so unless they plan to try to aquire nvidia (again) they'd need somethign like the lucid hydra for enthusiasts/gamers to really consider with on-chip gpu to be of use.

that is unless intel wants to start releaseing thier own stand alone graphics card that would communicate and split the load between the onchip gpu and another graphics card made by iintel in which case i say all the better for us as consumers having 3 major graphics card makers out there would be great for the market!

 

[lamorpa]

My PowerCooler 550W power supply is also able to play 3D DVDs!

 

[CrazeEAdrian]

Am I the only person that can't wait for this 3D fad to completely fade out....

 

[DXRick]

Playing 3D movies has nothing to do with DirectX or OpenGL (what GPUs do best). I thought that video encoding/decoding programs benefit from CPU speed and multi-threading and thus more CPU cores and hyper threading, as this test on AnandTech shows.

Maybe the AVX instructions are used for this?

 

[BluntObjection]

[citation][nom]Albyint[/nom]Mobile? 3d on a phone? Lulz...[/citation]

If Nintendo can do it with the 3DS, and without the need of glasses...
Possiblities are out there, what I wanna know is power consumption. What would battery life be on a mobile device running 3D, as well as heat.
Only time will tell I suppose.

 

[jecastej]

Quote :
Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer confirmed that Sandy Bridge mobile chips will have the capability for Blu-ray 3D, which hopefully translates into greater 3D graphics performance too.


It doesn't.

On implications I don't know but it is way better as the new integrated Intel graphic processor is even faster than the current ATI HD 5450. That is just good for gaming on low settings either.

 

[kcorp2003]

This is cool. If it get into mobile chips. I think Apple might actually invest into this too for their iphone. I can now see ARM in some trouble. Transition to 3D is getting closer and closer.

 

[Tomtompiper]

[citation][nom]CrazeEAdrian[/nom]Am I the only person that can't wait for this 3D fad to completely fade out....[/citation]

No, you are not alone. Here is a technical description of why 3D will never take off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08FK7WghHSc

 

[ren_xeon]

wow i am surprised !!

i was hoping for sandy bridge to do more than just let ppl watch movies on their computers !!

intel should plan on sticking up some GDDR3'3 or GDDR'5 in their integrated graphics instead of sharing a portion of system memory.

im preety sure that the bottleneck to todays integrated graphics is the speed of system memory. if they put something like 64 MB's of graphics memory then todays integrated graphics x4500 or x3100 should be able to decode blueray in 3D.

I do not think we need a whole new architecture to decode movies !!

i am sure that intels marketing message for sandy bridge is not "decoding 3d blue ray movies" !!

and from what i understand sandy bridge includes some hardware enhancements that were supposed to be a part of larrabee.

shouldnt we be expecting to play crysis atleast at 1024 x 1280 resolution with sandy bridge ?

 

[TheRockMonsi]

[citation][nom]peterkidd[/nom]I think that picture is from the porno Avatar. Is that on purpose?[/citation]

Haha, nice catch there!!!

 

[Warsaw]

Sandy Bridge? Well that doesn't sound very sturdy! I think I'll count on Fusion to make the world to go round. I mean, nobody has real Fusion technology besides the guys in red! *Crazy too that N.Korea says they've obtained Fusion.....maybe they're spying on AMD? (Gasps!)*

 

[13withinfinity]

SB Processor is nice.

The IGP.. I doubt it'll be worth anything. A few benchmarks will be released in its favor initially due to a few 'optimizations' in typical Intel fashion. I'll believe it when I have it right infront of me, and Intel is actually doing something with the Drivers.