Non-Story? Vote with your Dollars
Posted Feb 14, 2007 4:57 UTC (Wed) by
drag (subscriber, #31333)
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Non-Story? Vote with your Dollars by AJWM
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Supposedly around 2008-2009.
Supposedly a 16 core and 16 times faster then the current Nvidia G80 design. A monster, they are going to release high-end first, then move down the line.
I am thinking that if it's true then it's going to be about the equivelent of 16 X3000 cores packed into something similar to the size of a current Pentium CoreDuo2 cpu. (this should give you about 128 programmable pipelines)
I figure this makes sense because I know that when a CPU manufacturer does a move like from 45nm to 32nm proccess they basicly have to build a entire new assembly line for the new proccessors. So if you move to the next-generation proccessors you still have all the equipment for the previous-generation stuff laying around doing nothing then why not use it to make GPUs? (instead of celerons, I suppose) Intel's previous-generation is probably pretty close to Nvidia's next-generation.
from Vr-zone
From our non-Intel sources, we came to know about Intel's Visual Computing Group (VCG) discrete graphics plans. There seems to be a few interesting developments down the pipeline that could prove quite a challenge to NVIDIA and AMD in 2 years time. As already stated on their website, the group is focused on developing advanced products based on a many-core architecture targeting high-end client platforms initially. Their first flagship product for games and graphics intensive applications is likely to happen in late 2008-09 timeframe and the GPU is based on multi-core architecture. We heard there could be as many as 16 graphics cores packed into a single die.
The process technology we speculate for such product is probably at 32nm judging from the timeframe. Intel clearly has the advantage of their advanced process technology since they are always at least one node ahead of their competitors and they are good in tweaking for better yield. Intel is likely use back their CPU naming convention on GPU so you could probably guess that the highest end could be called Extreme Edition and there should be mainstream and value editions. The performance? How about 16x performance of any fastest graphics card out there now [referring to G80] as claimed. Anyway it is hard to speculate who will lead by then as it will be DX10.1/11 era with NVIDIA G9x and ATi R7xx around.
Complete rumors, of course.
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