"Larrabee" Still Expected in 2009 or 2010

[xyster]

Intel's "Larrabee" still is on track for 2009 or 2010, with pressure looming

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[mtyermom]

I'm very interested in seeing how this will play out. Intel knows very well it's own track record (or lack thereof) in the performance graphics market. They know that they have to do something big hedre.

 

[hellwig]

Intel needs to define the market it is going after. A simulataneous attack on all fronts (Video Games, Graphic Design, 3D Modelling, Scientific Computing) might not be a good idea. However, unless Larrabee can excel in any single area (if not, why enter the market), I suppose a multi-front attack is Intel's only choice.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Whats interesting is, going by known node shrinks, a current gpu in 2010 will be at least 3 times larger than todays gpus, meaning, theyll easily be out putting 4 Tera bytes, or, a top nVidia card could be like tri sli is today, or even better, plus, you can still tri sli those too. Some stiff competition to be running into

 

[smalltime0]

[citation][nom]jaydeejohn[/nom]Whats interesting is, going by known node shrinks, a current gpu in 2010 will be at least 3 times larger than todays gpus, meaning, theyll easily be out putting 4 Tera bytes, or, a top nVidia card could be like tri sli is today, or even better, plus, you can still tri sli those too. Some stiff competition to be running into[/citation]
I presume you mean Teraflops, but even still that will only be in single-point precision.
I think Intel's idea behind larabee should see less opf a performance deacrease when entering the doube point precision arena.

 

[tipoo]

larrabee or laughabee, we will see. having 3 companies in the high-end GPU segment might get funky.

 

[mtyermom]

It could be a flop... or it could bring a new level of competition into an already competitive market. Time will tell...

 

[Pei-chen]

Or Intel could buy out Nvidia and divide the PC market into an upper and lower where AMD becomes a bottom feeder.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Yea, Tera FLOPS, tried to edit, but no edit. The numbers Ive given are all VERY conservative, and may be worse case, meaning it can be as much as 2 1/2 times more also. Im thinking LRB will be primarily for what we call gpgpu things, and if priced right, may see some ability playing games as well, but the drivers Intel has to implement, including allll the different games.....lots to do, and Intel drivers? Im skeptical, but maybe itll be promising

 

[ravenware]

Larrabee may not be supported under good old Windows XP, but rather just Windows Vista and Windows 7

Larrabee will support DirectX and OpenGL and will be capable of running existing games and applications

Ehh?

 

[cruiseoveride]

flop or teraflop, it will win the masses if it has open source drivers.

 

[zodiacfml]

this is good competition but that will happen 2010.
intel graphics card probably will play catch-up but pricing will be very competitive for sure, lower than those of amds.
maybe in a 1 or 2 years of intel in the business, we'll see single graphics card around $600-$1000 which we can say way too much performance even for an avid gamer .
though it means having processors,games, and lcd monitors will have to catch up to fully utilize such cards.

 

[jaragon13]

Lol?
Intel : grapics? Probably will be a fail,like their GMA-3100 is overshadowed by my Zotac GTX 260... Also,I can't see(see) what I'm typing,so I just have to guesss where I have mistakes.

 

[afrobacon]

I think they'll succeed; but not very well, more than likely they'll be good enough where they'll want another crack at it and start playing catchup from there. I cant wait to see how the market will change.