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Nvidia Claims Intel's Larrabee Is "a GPU From 2006"

Posted by Soulskill on from the dem's-fightin'-woids dept.

Barence sends this excerpt from PC Pro: "Nvidia has delivered a scathing criticism of Intel's Larrabee, dismissing the multi-core CPU/GPU as wishful thinking — while admitting it needs to catch up with AMD's current Radeon graphics cards. 'Intel is not a stupid company,' conceded John Mottram, chief architect for the company's GT200 core. 'They've put a lot of people behind this, so clearly they believe it's viable. But the products on our roadmap are competitive to this thing as they've painted it. And the reality is going to fall short of the optimistic way they've painted it. As [blogger and CPU architect] Peter Glaskowsky said, the "large" Larrabee in 2010 will have roughly the same performance as a 2006 GPU from Nvidia or ATI.' Speaking ahead of the opening of the annual NVISION expo on Monday, he also admitted Nvidia 'underestimated ATI with respect to their product.'"

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  1. no wonder its slow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No wonder it's so slow. He keeps making reference to how it paints things. Can't move on to another frame until the previous one has dried.

    1. Re:no wonder its slow by mounthood · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe the imp died

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      tomorrow who's gonna fuss
    2. Re:no wonder its slow by Merls+the+Sneaky · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, he ran out of pink.

  2. THIS JUST IN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Company says competitor's product sucks! News at 11.

  3. Re:Intel isn't aiming at gamers by Zosden · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are you new here, Slashdotter's don't use poker analogies. It's all about car analogies. It is like Nvidia is a Mclaren f1 and Intel is a Corvette, and the Corvette is trying to say it is better than the Mclaren.

  4. so... by 800DeadCCs · · Score: 2, Funny

    So intel will only be about 4 years behind current in their graphics system when it comes out.
    In that case, it's probably the biggest leap they'll have ever made.

  5. Re:Doh of the Day by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Funny

    It does you no good to be able to process 16 billion pixels / second, when you can only get the data for 4 billion per second from your memories.

    [voice accent="scotty"]
    It's the memories, capt'n! They canna' take it any longer!
    [/voice]

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