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Intel: Larrabee "Compares Favorably" With GPUs |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:33 |
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I don't know how you could be a more vague answer to a straight forward question, but Intel has told PCMag that Larrabee compares favorably with AMD and Nvidia GPUs. They don't say current, or years past, or some future GPU, or low end, mid range, or high end. In fact we have absolutely zero indication of any performance whatsover.
Recent memory serves us well however. We know on the CPU side once Core Duo was running they were showing benchmarks to anyone who could type up a story. If Larrabee so amazing then where is the beef? This smacks of Sony's ridiculous Cell processor claims, and cut scenes fan boys were licking their lips at CES years ago for the PS3. Show something already, or shut up until you have something to show.ET: Have you pitted it against Nvidia or ATI GPU chips, and if so, how does it hold up in the teraflops range?
JR: The architecture compares favorably. I don't have any benchmark numbers to release on the part itself.
ET: But is it at least comparable in performance?
JR: Comparable? Absolutely, but when you introduce a new architecture you don't expect to be the top from day one. We haven't released any numbers, so I'm not sure where it will land or where the competition will be when we introduce it. But we believe in the architecture enormously because we think that this type of design will take us further than the current types of design. Nvidia, ATI, and Intel all have graphic chips. We're the largest producer of graphics chips—we just aren't top end. Larrabee is aimed at the top end, and we think that type of architecture will dominate high-end graphics.
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