Are Improving Integrated Graphics Slowly Killing Off Discrete Graphics Cards?

[Super XP]

There will always be a market for discrete graphics at least for another 10 to 15 years IMO.

 

[Frick]

I have not read through the thread but in the long run I think it will. People doing rendering and other HPC stuff will still be interested in it, but I'm not sure it will be called graphic cards any more at that stage.

 

[Am*]

For basic office users, maybe. For workstation/any mid range to enthusiast's desktops or even laptops, no freaking way.

 

[eidairaman1]

What intel does haves though is resources i.e. money. A few phone calls and an email or two (yeah i know its more than that easy ) intel acquires/partners nvidia stir mix and in a few years they're stomping as usual. Its just me but i still see the ipads as toys and dont consider them for computing(gonna buy one though to see for myself) I do however realize this is where everything is headed (low power& mobile). Who know one day we might be gaming on 3D eyefinity Ipads with holographic screens ....i might need to patent that.

Only thing thats really stopping NV from releasing their own platform is an x86 license

 

[ViperXTR]

ironic, just around a decade ago graphics calculation tried to separate itself from the CPU with the introduction of GeForce 256, the first "GPU" (tho the more programmable ones didnt came out till GeForce 3 and up). And now here we are, graphics processing is merging itself to the CPU once again (tho still on a separate chip, larrabee would have been the early ones to do CPU and GPU stuff)