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jaydeejohn   03-28-2009 at 05:15:42 AM

Some may have seen this. Im thinking there must be a flood coming, as I also see alot of sandbagging going on
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/27/ [...] onference/

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jennyh   03-28-2009 at 05:25:54 AM
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I remember when I saw the first benchmarks of a raytraced gpu and thought it would never catch on.

If you look at the current batch of gpu's however - already the mid range is starting to be good enough for just about every game released, even at previously unheard of resolutions. While ATI and Nvidia keep pushing out faster gpu's that programmers can't keep up with, intel will just keep pushing larrabee until it's fast enough. One day in the not too distant future the choice will be between perfect fps and raytraced graphics compared to perfect fps and non-raytraced.

Intel just cannot do wrong right now. There is no stopping them unfortunately.

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jaydeejohn   03-28-2009 at 05:37:30 AM
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Larrabee and raytracing go together as well as todays cpus, or gpus most likely as well. Question here is, will it be as low powered as theyre proclaiming, or 60% more? Figures show its capable of doing what the next gen cards will do, or there abouts, at full usage. But theyve been keeping mum, and I believe theyre sandbagging

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megamanx00   03-28-2009 at 06:24:59 PM
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People will be happy if the darn thing can just play Crysis ^_^. I'm not too worried about it. I'm sure that the first gen of new Intel boards will either slightly disappointing, or be a complete disaster. It's how much they learn from it that will determine if their next set will be competitive or not. The XGI Volari is definetly a case of bad execution and not learning.

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jaydeejohn   03-28-2009 at 06:51:55 PM
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It appears the scaling will be incredible on it, and power, like always is the main enemy. Im thinking theyre truly waiting on 32nm, as thatll give them what they want, as has been hinted at

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mactronix   03-28-2009 at 07:56:02 PM
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My thinking on this is that it could very well end up down clocked to save power and heat like some other cards have in the past. Then as you say JDJ when they get a shrink they should be able to up the performance a bit.

It has always been my opinion that the card needs to come in around the 3850/4670 area performance wise to be taken seriously. Power i dont think will come into it for the first round as long as they offset it with a cheap price. People will just want one because its new and they want to say they were "in" from the start.

There is no doubting the potential of this technology and as scaling is said to be so good im wondering how two would work when joined with a hydra chip ?
ATI/AMD and Nvidia are in big trouble if you ask me, unless they are sitting on something totally revolutionary they need to pull a finger out and fast. Trouble is who has the best/most resources for R&D ? Allowing for the recesion the world is in i see Intel in a very strong position all round. Assuming the launch dosent crash that is.

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