Intel shows Larrabee die shot in Germany, speculators go berserk
By Darren Murph 
posted May 14th 2009 3:59PM
posted May 14th 2009 3:59PM
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posted May 14th 2009 3:59PM
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Nice! Gotta love Intel
Reminds me of looking through the sight of the Farscope on Perfect Dark.
www.jeans-a-douche.com
Haha, yes it does look like that!
[and it's called a FarSight]
Close enough!
rolf @ Samboini's url bash
This is what i need on my next windows machine.
Die Apple with their proprietary processors.
Sorry.. can't quite get hyped for intel graphics... as its a cpu driven graphics system, if it can come close to the embedded Geforce 9400m I'll eat my words.. but I don't really expect that to happen.
a next-gen hybrid CPU / GPU-----Integrated Graphics?
GMAwsome
This is gonna kick AMD Fusion's ass.
Look GIMICKY
F.Uck those integrated chipsets. Better not be like those.
Are you accusing a graphics core of looking gimicky?
Obscure +1
SWEEETTT!!!
looks cool. how much? and for who?
will it play gamez?
you forgot the most important question:
will it blend?
Games like... Crysis? I'm just throwing out a title, y'know, randomly.
obviously like Crysis. i doubt it will perform...
at least not in the mean time. until they actually do succeed in having 1000+ cores :O and make it cheap...
when they can figure out how to get enough bandwidth to that chip to make it usefull, then we will talk
Nvidia is going to be pissed!
Yeah, alright. Here comes some "Intel Pro Extreme Larrabee Graphics" drivers to take whatever potential this has and bury it.
32 cores ... game changer!
Modern GPUs have in effect several hundred cores so I wouldn't say its a massive game changer
Well, if we measure the core count of Larrabee in the same fashion AMD count the shaders on the radeon line R600 and newer.. it has
32*16 shaders (each 'core' has a 16 operand vector unit, AMD has 160*5 shaders, Nvidia have 240 single operand shaders)
So it's 512 "shaders"/Operands @ 2000Mhz? (that's a number I saw floated for Larrabee at least)
vs 800 Operands at 1010Mhz (newest batch of 4890's)
vs 240 @ 1476MHz (GTX285)
So the peak theoretical throughput is
Larrabee = 1024000
Radeon 4890 = 808000
GTX 285 = 354240
Obviously there are other things going on than the raw theoretical pixel shader throughput, for one thing, it's much easier to fill the pipes on the GTX285 because you don't have to keep things in groups of 5 or 16 to keep the pipes saturated.
You're smart, you know that?
he can multiply!
... and spell long words
@Boswell
Your numbers look correct, but there is some other factor at work because AMD says 1360 Gigaflops on the 4890
@Loosely Coupled
Perhaps AMD have a fused multiply-add instruction?
They don't release a lot of data to work from, but it's feasible.
at least not in the mean time. until they actually do succeed in having 1000+ cores. and make it cheap
So Intel is naming chipsets after Get Smart characters now?
Intel code-names their products after towns and such.
Intel's internal code names for pending projects are geographical features. This is to minimized trademark problems before the lawyers have a chance to fully vet any selected names, since geographic names by themselves cannot be trademarked.
It used to be that different classes of product got the names of specific kinds of geographic feature: x86 processors were named for flowing bodies of water on the continent where the design center was located; IA64 processesor were named for mountain peaks; chipsets were named for valleys; etc. However, these days I think they just take what they can get.
In the tragic passing of the dream that was Duke Nukem Forever, it appears that Intel has stepped up to the plate, offering yet another tantalizing glimpse at something that has yet to solidify from the mists of mystery.
Vive la Vapor!!
It's been more than a century? Did you mean more than a decade? I think you may have a typo there...
The keys are like right next to each other.
I think that may be an instance of the popular language device, hyperbole.
@stan: my exact thought.
Poor Chad :-( ... Hint: This one's called sarcasm ;-)
So this is next gen GMA,
why does that not excite me?
"So this is next gen GMA,"
No.
Hmmm, I'm not taking to the idea of Intel basically controlling the whole platform with Larrabee. CPU, GPU and chip-set all from intel. Sure they've provided integrated graphics for years but as an option, baking it into the CPU makes it unavoidable.
Could this potentially make ATI/NVIDIA irrelevant in the low to mid range space considering the performance it is promising?
I'm not up on Larrabee but that's how it sounds :P
AMD bought ATI to put graphics on the core. They'll probably have a product on the market first.
Many chip manufacturers do business in Germany. How is this news?
What was that about Will Ferrell throwing up again?
I count 48 cores. 3 bands of 16 horizontal cores.
Larrabee, follow that car!
The German intel shot Larrabee? Did he die?
Yes...and they're doing things to his body...in the labs...
In Labs? Maybe we'll see some new Project Offset stuff soon. Would be a great selling point of the new tech if Intel actually provided something that uses their all new hardware this time around.
Is anyone else cynical, given the timing of this leak? Awfully convenient to leak something like this after adverse news about the EU anti-trust case hit the news and affected their stock. A photo doesn't a product make and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this to reach the market.