Intel's 'Larrabee' on Par With GeForce GTX 285
This time however, we waned to find out a little bit more about what Intel had up its sleeve for Larrabee--the company's next generation graphics solution, that's suppose to blow the water out of everything in the market.
According to one close Intel partner that wished not to be named, this isn't the case. We were told that Larrabee is currently only capable of performance levels similar to Nvidia's GeForce GTX 285. While this isn't a bad thing in by any measure, it doesn't quite line up with a lot of the heat that we've been told.
The partner said that with current Larrabee silicon, things may change down the line, but it did not expect Intel's graphics solution to take the high-end of the market. At the time of Larrabee's release, both AMD/ATI and Nvidia will introduce newer and faster versions of its GPUs. Despite this, it's still important to keep in mind that Intel has always been an enabler of technology, pushing other industry leaders to adopt new technology. This was the case with Intel's infamous i740.
Intel told us several weeks ago that Larrabee would be taking the same approach as Intel's SSD drives. Silent. No frills. But market dominating when released.
At this point, we still think it's a bit too early to draw very solid conclusions, but, this is what we were told.
Who, Intel? I didn't know they had a large percentage of the Discrete graphics market share.
I don't remember anytime this decade I read about the lastest Intel card.
Excitement and blind faith are two different things. Obviously, it could turn out to be crap, but it interests me at this point.
still, if it will be considerably cheaper / cooler / less power-hungry / better scaling, well, it might still be something to get excited about. even if only a little.
Discrete? No. Last I checked, however, Intel did have almost 50% overall graphics chip market share, due to their cheap integrated solutions and the rise of netbooks.
Anyways, I'm excited for Larrabee, if for nothing else than to provide some more competition to cause nvidia/AMD to create even better cards.
Also, if Larrabee it's at leat mildly successful (specially in the power consumption and size areas) it might push Nvidia and ATI to deliver a better (in the "more innovative" way) product.
In conclusion, high hopes here, in many areas too.
I know that, my point was, no one buys intel graphics solutions. OEMs buy them. And they're only meant for the most basic of tasks. Intel doesn't hold any of the market for people that work with graphics.
And maybe if they do good things with heat,power,etc it might be worth checking out.go figure i don't like buying multiple cards for my comp
Like anyone else, I welcome more players in the game that bring good products. We really only have two choices right now but both deliver good products so we cant go wrong. Intel has to come in this swinging or interest will evaporate quickly.
This might be better phrased as:
1) "that's suppose to blow everything in the water out of the market"
2) "that's the market this is suppose to blow water on everything"
3) "that's the water that is suppose to blow the market for everything"
what's exciting is how it can vastly improve various applications especially in the server and workstation markets.
It wouldn't happen initially, no if Intel did that they'd be attacked from all sides. Instead Intel may try and slowly leverage out the other chip makers in the business. AMD and ATI are two sides of the same coin, so they can continue to compete, but they are already on the ropes from the stiff competition from Intel and Nvidia. Once Nvidia chips can only run on AMD platforms, its short work for Intel to push AMD off the map too.
Something needs to happen here. Intel already has the ability (although they haven't exercised it) to become a true monopoly, the reason they haven't took the steps to see AMD immediately goes out of business is because if they did they fear regulatory response. But just because they are taking a slower route to pushing all other chipmakers out of the market doesn't mean they aren't trying to push other chipmakers out of the market.
I'm glad that Intel has provided such good, low cost components in recent history, but that can change the moment AMD closes its doors. The near future is bright, with more competition leading to better prices and performance, but the future of 5 to ten years from no is getting dark.
"that's suppose to blow the water out of everything in the market."
Correct:
that's supposed to blow everything in the market out of the water.
and all I gotta say...
talk is cheap.
"that's suppose to blow the water better than everything on the market"