{"id":6044,"date":"2008-11-19T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-19T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:24:00","slug":"intel-s-graphics-card-expected-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/6044-intel-s-graphics-card-expected-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s graphics card expected 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Larrabee?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Larrabee is the codename that Intel has given its upcoming graphics processing unit (GPU).<\/p>\n<p>The basic GPU will be released next year in the form of a high-end workstation product. This will see Larrabee being used in high-end research applications and performing tasks such as ray tracing and physics processing in real time.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases in the high-performance computing market, Intel&rsquo;s CPUs are being replaced by general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU) from Nvidia and AMD.&nbsp; Intel is hoping to take this market back with Larrabee. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larrabee graphics cards <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intel is also going after the graphics card market with the Larrabee GPU. Graphics cards featuring the Larrabee GPU will compete directly with AMD\/ATi and Nvidia in the retail sector, and will be available in 2010.<br \/>GPU CPU hybrid.<\/p>\n<p>Larrabee has been considered a hybrid between a multi-core CPU and a GPU. Unlike offerings from nVidia and ATi, Larrabee will feature the x86 architecture commonly seen in CPUs.<\/p>\n<p>Larrabee will function in many ways like a CPU, but will use Larrabee-specific extensions. The Larrabee will make use of Pentium P54C designed cores. The individual cores offer relatively low performance, but since they are very small, Intel can put many on a single chip. Expect between 32 and 48 cores on a single chip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gaming performance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preliminary performance data shows Larrabee running at 1GHz per core. Using 25 cores at this speed, Larrabee was able to maintain a frame rate of over 60fps in Gears of War at 1600&#215;1200 without anti-aliasing. The data available to date shows&nbsp; that performance scaling is almost linear when adding additional cores. Running 48 cores showed roughly 90% increased performance over 25 cores.<\/p>\n<p>These figures are conservative, as Larrabee will most likely run faster than 1GHz, and high-end Larrabee graphics cards will feature up to 48 cores.<\/p>\n<p>This should translate into some very impressive performance capabilities. <br \/><strong><br \/>Development<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The high performance computing version of Larrabee will run using an OpenGL driver. This makes the software development process relatively straight-forward.<\/p>\n<p>Developing drivers that will be able to run the thousands of different games available today will be a more difficult task. This is partly why the Larrabee-powered graphics cards will take a bit longer to appear than the high performance workstation version of Larrabee. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=146797\">Intel graphics card discussion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Larrabee\u00e2\u20ac\u009d promises impressive performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}