Sunday, July 6th 2008
Intel Larrabee Capable of 2 TFLOPs
German tech-journal Heise caught up with Intel's Pat Gelsinger for an article discussing the company's past and future as the silicon giant heads towards 40 years of service this 18th of July.
Among several topics, came up the most interesting one, visual computing and Intel's plans on it. 'Larrabee' strikes as a buzzword. It is the codename of Intel's upcoming graphics processor (GPU) architecture with which it plans to take on established players such as NVIDIA and AMD among others.
What's unique (so far) about Larrabee is that it's entirely made up of x86 processing cores. The Larrabee is likely to have 32 x86 processing cores. Here's a surprise: These processing cores are based on the design of Pentuim P54C, a 13+ year old x86 processor. This processor will be miniaturised to the 45nm fabrication process, they will be assisted by a 512-bit SIMD unit and these cores will support 64-bit address. Gelsinger says that 32 of these cores clocked at 2.00 GHz could belt out 2 TFLOPs of raw computational power. That's close to that of the upcoming AMD R700. Heise also reports that this GPU could have a TDP of as much as 300W (peak).With inputs from Heise
Among several topics, came up the most interesting one, visual computing and Intel's plans on it. 'Larrabee' strikes as a buzzword. It is the codename of Intel's upcoming graphics processor (GPU) architecture with which it plans to take on established players such as NVIDIA and AMD among others.
What's unique (so far) about Larrabee is that it's entirely made up of x86 processing cores. The Larrabee is likely to have 32 x86 processing cores. Here's a surprise: These processing cores are based on the design of Pentuim P54C, a 13+ year old x86 processor. This processor will be miniaturised to the 45nm fabrication process, they will be assisted by a 512-bit SIMD unit and these cores will support 64-bit address. Gelsinger says that 32 of these cores clocked at 2.00 GHz could belt out 2 TFLOPs of raw computational power. That's close to that of the upcoming AMD R700. Heise also reports that this GPU could have a TDP of as much as 300W (peak).With inputs from Heise
77 Comments on Intel Larrabee Capable of 2 TFLOPs
now i have seen this
i'm starting to get confused lol
btarunr Its spelled Larrabee
I don't like where GPU's are heading. There's too much power draw for so little performance increase. This goes for all GPU makers. Something needs to be done to bring power demands back in line with the rest of computer components. They have enough trouble as it is squeezing last-generation high-end GPU's in notebooks, but this is just ridiculous.
whoever thought that having 32 old cpus and makign a gpu based out of it is either incredibly stupid or amazingly crafty
im not even going to bother saying much because we all know nothing matters untill we get results
STILL i know for a fact 300w is alot for gpu i mean you could run a full pc on that nearly
Now we can run existing software on GPU :toast:
Pentuim? is that some CPU i never heard of?
*cough spellcheck*
300W TDP... gack.
If that was the case, everyone with a quad core would be getting 50 FPS in 3dmark with the cpu test (I don't care if it has high speed ram and cache attached or not). I'm calling intel retarded, again.
edit: Or it's more fud. Like that 10 GHz pentium 4 they just had laying around :laugh:
To me, this is like M$ saying the xbox 360 is fast b/c it has tri-core and runs at 3.2 GHz. But in reality there's not many transistors and it just can't push much data.
Seriously, though, VIA was cool back in the day, but they pissed me off when the athlon 64s came out. Those boards were slow and buggy.
That said, this is intel. they could easily throw in some power saving features and have its power usage scale really well (modified speedstep, for example)