Intel Discrete Graphics Chips Confirmed

Arun Demeure writes "There have been rumors of Intel's re-entry into discrete graphics for months. Now Beyond3D reports that Intel has copped to the project on their own site. They describe it as a 'many-core' architecture aimed at 'high-end client platforms,' but also extending to other market segments in the future, with 'plans for accelerated CPU integration.' This might also encourage others to follow Intel's strategy of open-sourcing their Linux drivers. So, better watch out NVIDIA and AMD/ATI — there's new competition on the horizon."

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Re:Mostly they are efficient

[Pulzar]

can you really have a damn good mirange card that wouldn't perform as a high-end card if you jacked up the GPU frequence, RAM speed and added a huge noisy fan?

That's simply how the technology works... If you take almost any processing chip, and jack up its frequency and the supporting RAM speed, you'll get more processing power out of it (until you reach the point where it doesn't work). And, with more power, you need a bigger fan.

But, it definitely works the other way, too -- you can dial it all down, and it'll be cool and quiet, and performing slower. Everybody gets to pick what they want, and everybody should be happy :).