How capable are these graphics chipsets anyway? [LWN.net]

How capable are these graphics chipsets anyway?

Posted Feb 1, 2008 19:05 UTC (Fri) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953)
In reply to: How capable are these graphics chipsets anyway? by drag
Parent article: Intel releases graphics programming manuals

What I would personally like to see is the GPU integrated as a specialized CPU core into the main proccessor and 512MB-1GB of very high speed ram integrated very close to that.

I believe you just described both Intel's and AMD's plans for mid next year. I know for sure AMD has that on the roadmap, and I'm sure Intel does as well. The only thing I would say is likely different is that it's not going to be a single GPU core, AMD calls them XPU's and they'll apparently be processing units that are highly specialized to do the work that is typically done with graphics. The roadmap concept graphics actually show as many xPU's as there are CPU cores on the AMD side. I imagine these xPU's will more than likely replace the floating point pipelines in the CPU.

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How capable are these graphics chipsets anyway?

Posted Feb 1, 2008 23:48 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Ya, I am told that If you look at the current generation of GPUs on the market they are made
up of a many 'cores'. Graphics proccessing is something that naturally lends itself to highly
parrellel programming so it wouldn't suprise me if that was entirely true.