zarx on 11 July 2013
| HoloDust said: Intel - I was dead serious in my previous post. Next Xeon Phi will deliver 3TFLOPS of DP peak performance, 14-16 GFLOPS/W - Maxwell will have 8-16GFLOPS/W. I think they will eventually target streaming gaming once it switches to casting/tracing - from everything I've read I was under impression that working with Xeon Phi is way easier than with GPGPUs, and if they have similar performance I can see why they might be obvious the choice. |
Knights landing isn't due for release until 2015/16, Maxwell is 2014/15. Nvidia is much better positioned for a streaming path-traced gaming future thanks to Nvidia Grid and their partnership with Otoy anyway. As they are the only people I know of currently developing a real-time cload based path-tracing engine http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=29544.
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