NVIDIA talks about the GeForce 8800 and beyond

[aesir]

Thanks for the link. Looks like I'll have to watch em closely or else they might crash.

[DrBalthar]

Reading all this it is perfectly clear to me, that in a couple of years we can say goodbye to the green goblin it looks like their arrogance will kill them (similair as it happened with SGI in the late 90s). Oh well to be honest I will not really miss them.

[richcz3]

There has been allot of blood letting between ATI and nVidia for years in pursuit of the performance enthusiast/gamer markets. Their purported rivalry is now being called into question. The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission is following up allegations of price fixing.

Articles Link1 (http://techreport.com/ja.zz?comments=12544) - Link2 (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20070528202724.html)

I read Intels discreet GPU market and it wasn't aimed at the enthisiast/gamer market. Intel owns the lions share of the onboard video market and their angle was to get more robust line to further fend of ATI and AMD on board solutions. Granted that was before the AMD's purchase of ATI.

[Sonk]

I read Intels discreet GPU market and it wasn't aimed at the enthisiast/gamer market. Intel owns the lions share of the onboard video market and their angle was to get more robust line to further fend of ATI and AMD on board solutions. Granted that was before the AMD's purchase of ATI.

AFAIK, Intel Larrabee discrete GPU will be first targeted at the gaming market.

Larrabee- 16 cores @ 2 GHz @ 150 W:

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/242

[richcz3]

Well there you go. Set me straight. The few times I saw article titles on Larabee I thought it was regarding the next iteration of the C2D.

Here is a pretty new article June 4 that goes into more details.
> Clearing up the confusion over Intel's Larrabee (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070604-clearing-up-the-confusion-over-intels-larrabee-part-ii.html) <

It looks like its targeted at high end scientific/medical processes.
Intel officially owns up to GPU plans with Larrabee (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070417-intel-officially-owns-up-to-gpu-plans-with-larrabee.html)
Ultimately, the more that's revealed about Larrabee, the more it appears to be aimed at the kinds of data-parallel workloads that NVIDA and AMD/ATI are targeting with CUDA and CTM, respectively, and less at traditional GPU workloads.This makes me wonder if Larrabee is going to have enough graphics-specific logic on the die to keep up with bona fide GPU products from NVIDIA and AMD/ATI in traditional 3D gaming. :shrug:

Wasn't Larrabee Maxwell Smarts robot sidekick for a while?

[DrBalthar]

Ultimately, the more that's revealed about Larrabee, the more it appears to be aimed at the kinds of data-parallel workloads that NVIDA and AMD/ATI are targeting with CUDA and CTM, respectively, and less at traditional GPU workloads.This makes me wonder if Larrabee is going to have enough graphics-specific logic on the die to keep up with bona fide GPU products from NVIDIA and AMD/ATI in traditional 3D gaming. :shrug:

Wasn't Larrabee Maxwell Smarts robot sidekick for a while?
And that is exactly the market where Nvidia apparently wants to grow into. So forget it Green Goblin your architecture will not be flexible enough for doing so.

[Sonk]

Well there you go. Set me straight. The few times I saw article titles on Larabee I thought it was regarding the next iteration of the C2D.

Here is a pretty new article June 4 that goes into more details.
> Clearing up the confusion over Intel's Larrabee (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070604-clearing-up-the-confusion-over-intels-larrabee-part-ii.html) <

It looks like its targeted at high end scientific/medical processes.
Intel officially owns up to GPU plans with Larrabee (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070417-intel-officially-owns-up-to-gpu-plans-with-larrabee.html)
Ultimately, the more that's revealed about Larrabee, the more it appears to be aimed at the kinds of data-parallel workloads that NVIDA and AMD/ATI are targeting with CUDA and CTM, respectively, and less at traditional GPU workloads.This makes me wonder if Larrabee is going to have enough graphics-specific logic on the die to keep up with bona fide GPU products from NVIDIA and AMD/ATI in traditional 3D gaming. :shrug:

Wasn't Larrabee Maxwell Smarts robot sidekick for a while?

Larrabee GPU out by Q2 2008? priced at 300 USD (midrange card):

http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20070606VL207.html

interesting times :)

[richcz3]

That's an interesting article, but there's a bit of dejavu there.
I remember buying my first AGP card (1997/98). It was an intel solution. It was pricey but a bit faster than my other system with an nVidia TNT PCI card. About a year or two later Intel dropped out as 3dfx and nVidia grew their market share.

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