http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/12/larrabee-might-great-analyst
Kumar reckons Intel is being either supremely daring or supremely hubristic in proclaiming its Larrabee will be able to outperform Nvidia’s best GPUs, noting, "Nvidia has had over 10 years to optimize the 3D graphics pipeline, the necessary drivers, the platform connections needed to supply the memory bandwidth required, and to work with the software and apps developers".
It is precisely this “different approach” Kumar seems to be taking to task in his report, with Intel using software which will have to run properly on multiple processing cores and based on what Kumar calls an "antiquated" Pentium design.
Kumar, however, remains skeptical, noting "If Larrabee ends up knocking out Nvidia, it will be a shocking upset", especially, he adds due to the "high efficiency of Nvidia's existing designs".
