Ivy Bridge GPU Performance- Up to 60% Faster than SNB & Better QuickSync.

[Piano Man]

IB GPU is 60% faster? Do that to the CPU and I'll be impressed.

 

[Joseph F]

True..

I really wish they would make a trinity platform with Quad channel memory.

Even if motherboard prices go up 20% or something because of it, and it means people will have to buy 4 sticks of memory (instead of just 2).

The extra bandwidth could probably be put to good use, by the iGPU.

Why not just put GDDR5 on the motherboard with say, a 64-bit bus? With a 64-bit bus at 4000MHz you'd get 32GB/s bandwidth. Which would be enough for an entry-level GPU, and it would be a hell of a lot cheaper and faster performing than a quad-channel shared RAM architecture.

 

[Edrick]

Why not just put GDDR5 on the motherboard with say, a 64-bit bus? With a 64-bit bus at 4000MHz you'd get 32GB/s bandwidth. Which would be enough for an entry-level GPU, and it would be a hell of a lot cheaper and faster performing than a quad-channel shared RAM architecture.

I heard awhile back that Intel was thinking about putting 1GB of dedicated RAM in their IB package for the GPU. No idea if this is going to happen.

 

[BlueBlazer]

I heard awhile back that Intel was thinking about putting 1GB of dedicated RAM in their IB package for the GPU. No idea if this is going to happen.

eDRAM? IBM used that on their Power7... :hmm: