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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. Attention nvidia fanbois by fbhua · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've seen a lot of posts lately claiming that ATI's superiority is "subjective at best" and nvidia still offers the "Best performance at a certain price level". Now you have it straight from the horse's mouth. What do you say to this?

  2. Intel chipsets will allway work better for me... by Simon+(S2) · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... than the NVidia ones. Intel has Open Source drivers, NVidia not. So, NVidia, even if your cards are from 2010, and Intels are from 2006, I'll buy theirs because they work better and out of the box on my home desktops. When you will be ready to release open drivers for your hardware you can start to compare your products to that of your competitors. Even AMD understood that.

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  3. Re:Intel isn't aiming at gamers by Sj0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows XP runs just fine. I was running Firefox on XP last night with the unaccelerated default drivers, and it was virtually indistinguishable from using the accelerated drivers -- which is to say, it was crazy fast. Could it be that Linux just isn't that quick?

    I mean, it's 2008. You shouldn't need to watch task swapping take place on a 2d desktop.

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  4. Re:Intel isn't aiming at gamers by Sj0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Score: -1, told an uncomfortable truth about what a 3GHz machine should be able to do.

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