[QUOTE="PS3_3DO"] Intel is all hot air. Iets see them make a good GPU since they haven't ever.
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.... have you seen the thought put into the architecture? It is very well planned out.
And ultimately, anyone dissing Larrabee doesn't fully understand what it could mean for the industry as a whole.
Larrabee could be the single best tech shift in the last 10 years... It could mean a LOT to the industry if it succeeds.
And by a LOT, I mean technological advancement and experimentations not seen since the early '90s....
Great programmers could theoretically redefine the way we look at graphics. None of that will happen in the current state with hardware rendering and everything being tied to the current version of DX or the current shader model version...
Larrabee could do away with all those technicalities and just let the programmers make fantastic engines with whatever they want.... I could mean more improvements in a single generation of GPU's than we have seen in 3-4 generations of GPU's in the current system.
Philosophically, any true gamer should want Intel to succeed. Because it they do, the industry will change for the better.
someones excited arent they?
although im not quite as excited....i certainly find intels proposition very interestng.
i fondly remember a game called outcast which was released in 1999. it used the voxel engine (which meant software rendering only) and at the time it was a visually stunning game. the world looked very organic and was a pleasure to explore. that ran on a 500Mhz pentium 3 (and of course the CPU had to do everything from graphics rendering to ai.
ive often wondered what voxels could do today given the power of modern CPUs and multi core tech. larabee would certainly be very interesting for that also. the design itself, on paper at least, is very flexible and would support voxels.
i wont be going crazy for it though until i know more. it may be all good on paper but how will it stack up in the real world? it may be flexible but how powerful will it be? at the mo its all just rumours. ive heard that itll have 48 cores for the hign end model....but that doesent tell us much at all. how will those cores stack up against the shaders in an 8000 series geforce or 2000 series ati card? the cores are in order execution units based on pentium MMX architecture with added cache and vector processing units....which is a cause for pause imho.
larabee may be the biggest advancement in GPUs since the geforce 256.....or it could just end up being a damp squib. i hope it succeeds as competition is always good and it could give the GPU industry a kick in the bum.but i await benchmarks and more info before ill make a judgement on it.
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