Intel Iris & Iris Pro Graphics: Haswell GT3/GT3e Gets a Brand

[Cookie Monster]

Phi is essentially incapable of rendering any kind of meaningful graphics. It's an x86 processor with lots of cores, not a GPU.

Your quite right hence why larrabee failed so miserably (this was like 4~5 years ago!).. and on top of that, Intel still has power efficiency issues with its 22nm Knights Corner even if they have an edge in the process race. Something thats evident when just looking at the numbers for the no.1 super computer (tianhe-2) to the second in line (titan).

I think Intel can hurt Nvidia and AMD's bottom line with better IGP's, because as we can see now, $75-100 cards aren't looking like great value compared to APU's and better integrated graphics. I think this will lead to less low-end spam that we see from AMD and Nvidia, with a more concrete focus on medium-high end cards. dGPU's are far from dead. The low end ones just don't make as much sense now.

You know, this sort of threat from iGPUs could see the dGPU makers either upping the ante or maybe withdrawing from such low end market all together. I hope this gives them more of an motivation to stop the endless low-end spamming like you have mentioned and release something that is somewhat acceptable in terms of performance.. Actually it'd be kind of interesting to see the performance boosts we see in low-end dGPUs from generation to generation.

To be totally honest, I doubt dGPUs would go away. We are already hitting a process wall, and seeing GTX680 type of performance in integrated solutions is a pipe dream for the most part. Games are becoming more demanding (and I dont blame them as visuals have improved drastically in the span of 10 years), so dGPUs will always be around in the context of gaming. It will always be profitable as ever! On the other hand, HPC could be another story but at this point in time, nVIDIA is doing pretty well against its competition. Personally looking forward to Maxwell vs Knights Landing showdown.

Then we have the other "issues" such as Intel having yet to prove itself in the software/driver department. It'd be interesting also to see an indepth review comparing IQ for instance vs AMD/nVIDIA parts as the latter comparison is pretty well documented throughout the years.

Intel does intimidate with its sheer size and resources but that doesn't necessarily result into them posting good results. They've already failed twice trying to enter the dGPU business and in my eyes, are still a rookie in this playing field.

 

[mikk]

wow. No wonder Intel made their edram chip so big. More than doubling the EUs from HSW gt3.

does this mean broadwell gt2 will be 24 EU or 48?

There is no confirmation that this is Broadwell. Here is another theory:

As much as I want the spec on that slide to happen, its about "GenX Scalability". In other words, what they can do as a maximum configuration. The actual GT4 parts may be significantly under-specced.

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