Larrabee, CUDA And The Quest For The Free Lunch

[Guest]

Opinion - Intel unveiled some key details about its upcoming Larrabee accelerator/discrete graphics architecture earlier this week, sparking speculation how this new technology will stack up to what is already out there in the market.

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[Mr_Man]

It seems to me that AMD/ATI would be the best place to look for this kind of thing. It's interesting that Intel and nVidia are the front runners right now. Maybe AMD/ATI will have a different perspective? Selling platforms, perhaps?

 

[Blessedman]

for CUDA to work as Nvidia wishes, it will need to support AMD/ATI cards/CPU's which is probably why Nvidia is helping that kid port CUDA for use with ATI chipsets.

 

[falchard]

Larrabee looks disappointing as a video card. It really isn't a discrete video card but a processor on a PCI-e port, much like the Cell Processor right now. If it comes to competing with discrete graphics cards over rendering, I think the graphics cards win because they are more specialized to thier task. Processors right now really aren't capable of rendering simple scenes at a playable frame rate.
I think this also applies to simulations.