Will Larrabee become an Nvidia killer?

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May 14, 2008

Graphic Giant, Nvidia is smacking Intel on their upcoming Larrabee GPU calling it a PowerPoint slide and facing constant delays according to a CNET interview with Jen-Hsun Huang. Most probably, the first generation Intel Larrabee will face a tough going against the Nvidia’s GT200 series and beyond. There might be a possibility that next to this generation Larrabee might have a chance to stand against Nvidia’s future offerings somewhat in year 2010-11 with a new architecture, many more cores on 32nm process technology and Quad Larrabee cards support. Clearly, Intel’s strategy here is to increase the number of cores per GPU and increase the number of Larrabee GPUs supported per platform. This is possible due to their advanced fab and process technology, an area which fabless Nvidia has little control over and has to rely on TSMC’s process technology. We are eager to see the first hint of Larrabee performance on the current and future games.

Also according to a report at bit-tech, With Intel’s statement of the Lerrabee will benifit only gamers and none for non-gamers. Intel also mention that upgrading CPU (From E6550 to E8400) will also benifit 3D rendering, music, photo editing and video processing, while upgrading your GPU from a G33 integrated graphics chip to an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX will deliver no benefits in these tasks.

And i thought that 3D rendering and rest of the graphics based things are handled by graphics card! Strange…Sheeeesh.

Nvidia tried to prove them wrong by showing that upgrading to a High-end processor from mid-end processor delivers not much of the performance in GAMES!

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