Larrabee: A fiasco, or the future?

[Xoulz]

OK now I'm struggling to wrap my head around all this

It's simple...

Think Atom chip with modularity...etc. Add Larrabee on die with 6 atoms and what do you get..? Motherboards may have two processors soon, the second is a co-processor such as Larrabee.. AMD is headed this way also.


Dr Who just isn't allowed to tie it all together for you, as if this is some secret! With the advent of Hydra engine (intel) you can easily just have your co-processor not integrated, but on a card. Anyone notice the priority of the Hydra chip?

It's now the north bridge..


add it all up over the next 2 years...

[saaya]

Especially when it's going into a market as competitive as the graphics sector.

yeah thats really a good point your brought up there...

Even 480P RayTraced would look much better than 1080P on current ATI/NV hardware.. The question really is: Can Intel deliver 60 FPS in-game experience at ANY decent resolution with LRB?

If it can, I'm in.

yes, raytraced doesnt necessarily look better, the demo they used so far looks like the far cry island after it has been bombed with agent orange or nuked i count 7 trees on the whole island, no other plants or bushes or objects of any kind...

and the previous raytracing demos from intel werent exactly that impressive either... what intel needs to make raytracing popular is at least one killer application that uses it, and uses it heavily in a way that really changes the gameplay, not bolted on implementations like all the physix nonsense we are seeing lately...

epic games seems to be very interested in lrb, they are really interested in having more flexibility to program their engine... but they have an engine cycle of 3 years or more, and this is more than just a new engine, this is really taking things to another level in regards to flexibility... so i expect we wont see a raytracing supporting engine from them or anybody else until 2011, maybe even later...

[R101]

Come on, Saaya, we all know this demo is no good.

I meant raytraced crysis@480p vs current crysis@ whatever with _ALL_ effects, rays, textures exactly the same .

[kl0012]

yeah thats really a good point your brought up there... yes, raytraced doesnt necessarily look better, the demo they used so far looks like the far cry island after it has been bombed with agent orange or nuked i count 7 trees on the whole island, no other plants or bushes or objects of any kind...

and the previous raytracing demos from intel werent exactly that impressive either... what intel needs to make raytracing popular is at least one killer application that uses it, and uses it heavily in a way that really changes the gameplay, not bolted on implementations like all the physix nonsense we are seeing lately...

While adding some textures or/and little more vivid colors could do those demos more interesting for an end-user, I guess it was not an aim of Intel. More it was a technological demos for potential developers. Intel is not yet in the stage of creating TV advertisement for LRB.

[W1zzard]

While adding some textures or/and little more vivid colors could do those demos more interesting for an end-user, I guess it was not an aim of Intel. More it was a technological demos for potential developers. Intel is not yet in the stage of creating TV advertisement for LRB.

what about half naked girls?

[G0ldBr1ck]

what about half naked girls?

Yes please

[kl0012]

what about half naked girls?

I guess no sooner then Intel would buy Nvidia.