Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang Opens A Can of Words on Intel

http://tinyurl.com/3htnuq

I've never heard Jen-Hsun go on about Intel like that in a conference
call before.

He must truly be worried about Intel's upcoming Larrabee
architecture.

I think Larrabee scares the living **** out of him.

On Apr 11, 12:52 am, NV55 wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/3htnuq

I've never heard Jen-Hsun go on about Intel like that in a conference
call before.

He must truly be worried about Intel's upcoming Larrabee
architecture.

I think Larrabee scares the living **** out of him.



Larrabee is nothing. Huang was right to say that Larabee, which will
come out to the market in 2010, is inferior to current crop of low-end
GPU, such as Radeon HD 2600, which has a whooping 120 stream
processors !

If you take account of the top GPUs that is available today, all
equipped with 512 stream processors (and more!), Larrabee, with its
puny 16-core, is nothing.

By 2010, top-of-the-line GPU would have 1K or more processors embedded
inside. How long would it take Intel to come up with 1K-core
Larrabee??

Stop and think. Don't buy into Intel's FUD.

Ed writes:
Intel hasn't made a decent integrated graphics chip to date

Eh? My work pc has some kind of old intel integrated graphics (i845?)
and it's just fine, does a very decent job of running opengl apps etc.
Newer chips are supposedly much faster (and the upcoming generation even
better of course). Intel knows their market.

I suppose gamers want something much studlier, but what intel makes is
fine for normal use.

Intel's also made a lot of friends because of their very open attitude
-- while nvidia is _still_ pulling the "no you can't have the specs that
allow you to support our hardware" bull****. [They'll come around
eventually, but in the meantime it sure as hell isn't making them look
any better.]

In any case, the Nvidia guy's rant seemed pretty pathetic... If he wants
to project confidence, that was exactly the way _not_ to do it.

-Miles

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Ed writes:
Intel hasn't made a decent integrated graphics chip to date

Eh? My work pc has some kind of old intel integrated graphics (i845?)

Some of our work PCs have Intel graphics, they pretty much suck IMO.

Do you have anything to back up such a broad claim?

As I said in the text you omitted in your quoting, Intel's embedded
chips -- even the low-end ones -- seem to work absolutely fine for many
tasks that that need some 3d/opengl support to work sanely (blender,
compiz, etc). Not the best for gaming certainly, but many, many, uses
of 3d have nothing to do with gaming.

Of course the (low-end!) intel cards in question also work great for 2d.
(something which you, bizarrely denied in a subsequent post).

[Note that the reason I know those apps "need" 3d support to work sanely
is because I've tried them on systems with a 2d-only card... not fun... :-]

-Miles

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