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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. Doh of the Day by eddy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...he also admitted Nvidia 'underestimated ATI with respect to their product.'

    Good, learn from that and don't make that same mistake again!

    Larrabee [...] will have roughly the same performance as a 2006 GPU from Nvidia or ATI.'

    DOH!

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  2. Intel isn't aiming at gamers by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So why is NVIDIA on the defensive?

    Intel is aiming at number crunchers (note that their chip uses doubles, not floats). They don't want NVIDIA to steal that market with CUDA.

    When Intel says "graphics", they mean movie studios, etc.

    If Larrabee eventually turns into a competitor for NVIDIA, all well and good, but that's not their goal at the moment.

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    1. Re:Intel isn't aiming at gamers by Shinatosh · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Ok. Nvidia and AMD/ATI probably will overperform the Intel GPU. However Intel has open specs of their GPU-s, so for NOT the gamers there will be a quite good performance GPU to be used under Linux for various purposes with high quality OSS drivers. Im looking forward to it.
      Shinatosh

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    2. Re:Intel isn't aiming at gamers by Nymz · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So why is NVIDIA on the defensive?

      I think the Nvidia people think pretty highly of themselves, rightfully so, and Intel has recently been making a number of bold claims, without backing them up. In a poker analogy, Nvidia is calling Intels bluff.

  3. Re:Classic case of disruption by eddy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >ATI hanging onto a somewhat insignificant market share.

    C'mon, 17 million units shipped in a quarter and ~20% of the market is hardly 'a somewhat insignificant market share' in a market with four major players (Intel, nVidia, VIA).

    For comparison, take Matrox, they have insignificant market share with about 100K/q

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  4. Re:Classic case of disruption by cnettel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ten years ago, the Riva TNT was yet a few months away. S3 and ATI both had a great marketshare for low to mid-end, and 3dfx dominated the very top segment for gamers.