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They did actually make it and it was not supposed to be a GPU..
by CyberDildonics 6y ago
They did actually make it and it was not supposed to be a GPU..
- modeless 6y agoThey pivoted to HPC when the GPU thing didn't work out, and it has since been discontinued.
- pjmlp 6y agoSure it was, I was at the GDCE 2009 session on Larrabe.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoThey showed quake ray tracing demos with it and other people assumed it was supposed to be sold as a GPU instead of listening to what they were actually saying. No one thought a collection of atom CPUs with AVX512 SIMD was going to be able to compete head to head on rasterization of games with the best Nvidia cards.
- modeless 6y agoWhy would they put texture units on it if it wasn't intended to be sold as a GPU? Consumer gaming GPUs were explicitly planned. Initial released versions even had DirectX drivers. Here is Intel's SIGGRAPH paper featuring benchmarks of Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Gears of War, and F.E.A.R. http://download-software.intel.com/sites/default/files/m/9/4/9/larrabee_manycore.pdf http://download-software.intel.com/sites/default/files/m/9/4...