Rare GPUs / Unreleased GPUs

[Mr.Scott]

Bout right at $400-500.

 

[erek]

how much would an Intel Larrabee Revision 1 be valued at currently?

 

[king of swag187]

Priceless

 

[erek]

Priceless

Really?

 

[Caring1]

how much would an Intel Larrabee Revision 1 be valued at currently?

If you mean the XEON Phi then not much

 

[erek]

If you mean the XEON Phi then not much

I'm referring the Intel Larrabee Prototype that was cancelled

 

[Fouquin]

how much would an Intel Larrabee Revision 1 be valued at currently?

Last few that sold were in the $200-$300 range.

 

[hat]

Compared to what I've seen, maybe $400-500 is the max you want to bid on this, but again that's not advice
Lol the have a bible verse in the description for some odd reason

For ASUS so loved the gamers, he gave them his only begotten MARS graphics card?

 

[king of swag187]

Funnily enough, Mars is the Roman god of war/pain/suffering, which is whats going to happen to someones wallet when they bid on it

 

[hat]

God of war, yes. Pain and suffering, not so much... such would likely be attributed to attributed to Pluto (god of the underworld). Interestingly, one of their other brands, Ares, is the Greek name for the same guy (Mars).

 

[erek]

 

[king of swag187]

I'm guessing that you've already tried to boot with it to no success? Even with a iGPU/other DGPU?
If you guys really want to talk rare, talk about the GTX 980DT MXM, only like 10 were ever made in "standard" form factor, and it's my goal to find them for my laptop('s)
Joking of course

 

[erek]

I'm guessing that you've already tried to boot with it to no success? Even with a iGPU/other DGPU?
If you guys really want to talk rare, talk about the GTX 980DT MXM, only like 10 were ever made in "standard" form factor, and it's my goal to find them for my laptop('s)
Joking of course

Haven't tried anything yet, it's missing all but one of the screws to hold the cooler down

Album for reference:

http://imgur.com/a/iIcZQ3Y

 

[erek]

i did get the Larrabee to POST, like my system actually boots, but the card itself beeps, 1 long and 3 short -- the actual Larrabee card itself has a PC Speaker



no video output

see the PC Speaker?

 

[king of swag187]

What kind of ram is that, GDDR or DDR? Also, look at the size of that chip...
I imagine it doesn't post because it has no drivers, which means its a computer without an OS.

 

[Mr.Scott]

What kind of ram is that, GDDR or DDR? Also, look at the size of that chip...
I imagine it doesn't post because it has no drivers, which means its a computer without an OS.

Don't need drivers to post.
Only needs to be identified.

Larrabee is not a GPU. It was designed to be a co-processor unit.
If that's a first revision card, there probably is no actual GPU features. It was not meant as a stand alone GPU.

 

[erek]

i put in a second video card, and the beeps no longer are present on the Larrabee
but the Larrabee isn't appearing in the device manager, and it's not appearing in the BIOS as linked in
the larrabee seems to be alive though..

how come it calls itself a GPU on the PCB?

 

[Mr.Scott]

Eventually it was going to be, but was cancelled before completion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)

 

[erek]

Eventually it was going to be, but was cancelled before completion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)

you've read this right?

http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#[[Why didn%27t Larrabee fail%3F%5D%5D

"Because we were never allowed to ship it, people just saw a giant crater, but in fact Larrabee did run graphics, and it ran it surprisingly well. Larrabee emulated a fully DirectX11 and OpenGL4.x compliant graphics card - by which I mean it was a PCIe card, you plugged it into your machine, you plugged the monitor into the back, you installed the standard Windows driver, and... it was a graphics card. There was no other graphics cards in the system. It had the full DX11 feature set, and there were over 300 titles running perfectly - you download the game from Steam and they Just Work - they totally think it's a graphics card! But it's still actually running FreeBSD on that card, and under FreeBSD it's just running an x86 program called DirectXGfx (248 threads of it). And it shares a file system with the host and you can telnet into it and give it other work to do and steal cores from your own graphics system - it was mind-bending! And because it was software, it could evolve - Larrabee was the first fully DirectX11-compatible card Intel had, because unlike Gen we didn't have to make a new chip when Microsoft released a new spec. It was also the fastest graphics card Intel had - possibly still is. Of course that's a totally unfair comparison because Gen (the integrated Intel gfx processor) has far less power and area budget. But that should still tell you that Larrabee ran graphics at perfectly respectable speeds. I got very good at ~Dirt3 on Larrabee. "

 

[Caring1]

……..
how come it calls itself a GPU on the PCB?

And how come they misspelled responsible?

 

[Mr.Scott]

Grain of salt applied.
It failed and was bailed on.
Wasn't 'mainstream' enough and political / financial pressure was probably applied. IE: Nvidia and AMD/ATI

 

[Fouquin]

Grain of salt applied.
It failed and was bailed on.
Wasn't 'mainstream' enough and political / financial pressure was probably applied. IE: Nvidia and AMD/ATI

It didn't fail, in fact it didn't fail so hard that Intel decided to dump more money into the project. Larrabee became Knight's Ferry before Larrabee as a project was cancelled, and the higher ups at Intel figured that it would be a better compute card than a graphics card, so they shifted focus and funded the new course. It was literally a case of the hardware could do both, but it was slightly better at one and so they put all resources into that one. Just about every single "Larrabee" labeled card that is out in the wild is actually a Knight's Ferry card sent out to partners for development purposes.

 

[R0H1T]

It didn't fail, in fact it didn't fail so hard that Intel decided to dump more money into the project. Larrabee became Knight's Ferry before Larrabee as a project was cancelled, and the higher ups at Intel figured that it would be a better compute card than a graphics card, so they shifted focus and funded the new course. It was literally a case of the hardware could do both, but it was slightly better at one and so they put all resources into that one. Just about every single "Larrabee" labeled card that is out in the wild is actually a Knight's Ferry card sent out to partners for development purposes.

It did fail, in fact it failed so hard that after Nvidia introduced the HPC market their 14nm Quadros or Teslas, the Knight's "experiment" was cancelled. It couldn't do graphics well, nor would it match the compute power of last gen GPUs.

 

[Fouquin]

It did fail, in fact it failed so hard that after Nvidia introduced the HPC market their 14nm Quadros or Teslas, the Knight's "experiment" was cancelled. It couldn't do graphics well, nor would it match the compute power of last gen GPUs.

We're talking about Larrabee though, this predates any of nVidia's 14nm (16nm?) parts by half a decade at least. (Over a decade if you include the projects that merged into Larrabee, some starting as early as 2006.)

Also for what it's worth, Knight's Mill was released just last December as a revision of Knight's Landing specifically for AI/ML workloads. I'd hardly call it cancelled. Intel is, as far as we know, still building a new architecture from the ground up to replace what was going to be Knight's Hill.

 

[erek]

It didn't fail, in fact it didn't fail so hard that Intel decided to dump more money into the project. Larrabee became Knight's Ferry before Larrabee as a project was cancelled, and the higher ups at Intel figured that it would be a better compute card than a graphics card, so they shifted focus and funded the new course. It was literally a case of the hardware could do both, but it was slightly better at one and so they put all resources into that one. Just about every single "Larrabee" labeled card that is out in the wild is actually a Knight's Ferry card sent out to partners for development purposes.

what's the deal with the video outputs and Parade dp530 (A0 - ES) DisplayPort controllers? Why are they labeled "Larrabee GPU" if they're not? This one wasn't from an external partner... it even has a bodge wire on it that i haven't seen across all of the 4-5 boards publicly known in the wild