Intel Larrabee finally hits 1TFLOPS - 2.7x nVidia GT200

[joeorc]

Soleron said:
It's good for GPGPU, but that it is a tiny market. In terms of gaming performance, which is what this board cares about, it will be a lot lower per mm^2 than a RV770 or GT200 since much of the die is used for x86 and because Intel's graphics engineers haven't had 10 years of being in the high-end market so they couldn't overtake them in one go. But the next iteration of Larrabee (this is Larrabee version 2 by the way, so I mean v3) could rival AMD/Nvidia.

Also, it depends when it's coming out. Its current competition is the Evergreen (5xxx) and GT200 parts; when it comes out that could be Fermi and Evergreen, or if mid-2010 then Fermi and Evergreen+1.

Note they did not compare it to the HD5xxx, which would be at about 2.7TFlops. Their architecture is different, yes, so it would probably come second in that ranking. But again, no indication of game performance.

Tl;dr - Performance in games, on retail parts and compared to launch-time competition, is what you should wait for.

I do not think it's about direct replacement of GPU's , it's about Helping the dedicated GPU.

The way i see it is for a way to help the GPU get better result's, with more of the thing's that the CPU/GPU could do to offset the process's that could be better suited for the CPU/GPU doing those and to let the GPU do what it does best and that is DRAW.

yes the quality of the chip could indeed be used in embedded system's to lower the overall cost but I think the main goal is for it to overcome

some of the much needed memory wall problem's that plague current design's now.