when Intel announced that they will be developing discrete graphics cards roughly two years ago i and well
everyone else took it with a massive grain of salt i mean sure maybe improved
integrated graphics or the enterprise getting something ludicrously expensive
to accelerate ai that sounds pretty credible but a real GPU that i can hold
in my hands well as it turns out it's
in my hand right now and i fully believe that some really great things are going
to come out of this but i'm still skeptical that Intel will ever turn this
into a real product for gamers even if i would love to be wrong
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this is not the first time that Intel has created graphics card and the story
of the dg1 starts many years before i was born back in
1963. the apollo mission was in full swing and nasa decided the best way to
visit the moon was to have one module land on the moon while another stayed in
orbit but getting those two modules to reconnect safely would need to be
mastered before the plan could go ahead since if the two modules failed to
reconnect everyone died to properly train the astronauts on how to dock nasa
created their rendezvous docking simulator and inside that was the
real-time image generator created by ge aerospace essentially the first graphics
card ever over the next 30 years ge aerospace
would improve on their simulator and at some point an engineer hopped in there and was like uh guys have you tried this
this is really friggin fun leading ge aerospace to create real 3d
and partnering with sega yes that one on the model 2 and model 3 to deliver some
mind-blowing graphics for the time then in 1993 ge aerospace was sold to
lockheed martin where martin marietta also got hooked on the video games and
decided to double down on them not just increasing their partnership with sega
but also partnering with Intel to create the most incredible graphics card the
world had ever seen codenamed project auburn the hype for auburn was real with
everyone assuming that the incredible resources and expertise at Intel's
disposal would completely destroy 3dfx and NVIDIA
until auburn hit the market in february
of 1998 the Intel 740 was launched for
only 34.50 and even at that price it stunk the
performance was abysmal compared to the 3dfx voodoo 2 and by the end of the year
everyone had basically forgotten about it this mistake ultimately led to
lockheed martin bailing on the project and real 3d closing
Intel bought the ip and tried to have another go at it with the i 742 and i
744 but they never reached acceptable levels of performance and it didn't make
it to the market some of this ip lives on in Intel's current day igps which
might explain why they sucked for so long and Intel's dreams of creating a
sweet graphics card for gamers were crushed
many years went by basher released yeah halo brought first-person shooters to
the masses and Linus's voice stayed exactly the same until 2008 when Intel
announced project larabee once again the Intel graphics hype was
in full force with Intel claiming that their demonstration of an overclocked
unit was the first ever public demonstration of a single chip system
exceeding one teraflop but the stunt did not impress NVIDIA who
called it a marketing puff and peter glockowski saying it was like a GPU from
2006. to get the full scoop on larabee check out Linus's video where it gets
hands-on with a real sample but how the story ends is why i'm still a bit
skeptical about Intel's current dg1
the tldw is that larrabee was a total success
just not as a gaming graphics card but instead as a general compute processor
the project lived on for 10 years as xeon phi a platform that allowed for
loads of CPU cores to be slot into a single super computer and can easily
handle massive calculations it was actually used to create the
world's fastest super computer in 2013
so this move Intel being like oh hey guys
we're going to make a great GPU psyc
is why when Intel announced that they would be getting back into dedicated
graphics in 2017 my first thought was well that'll be great in 2020
for ai researchers this feeling was reaffirmed when Intel
announced that they would be partnering with the us department of energy to deliver the world's first exascale
computer and a little while later there were rumors that the performance of the
consumer GPU was underperforming which brings us to yesterday when i saw
Intel's reps bring out a working sample of the Intel dg1 and i was at first
excited until i saw it being used Intel sample
was warframe which is running right behind us and
i don't need an FPS counter to tell me that it's dropping below 60fps and i
couldn't help but feel that we've seen this song and dance before loads of hype
a prototype that isn't quite there but seems promising only for the consumer
side of the project to be canned down the line the thing is though i still
think that this is the most important demo of ces 2020 even if we never end up
getting a graphics card that destroys radion or NVIDIA since i think that
would be really missing the point Intel's big advantage here is going to
be the integration of their cpus and what they can do for mobile devices the
way turbo boost can squeeze every last megahertz of stability and every degree
of cooling in thin light machines is incredible add that control to the GPU
of a mobile device and the tightrope walk of available power and cooling
between the CPU and gpus simultaneously to give us the kind of gaming experience
that you currently get in big 15 inch laptops down in like a little 13-inch
two-pounder or turn something like the alienware project ufo into a real beast
the best part is that is the worst possible scenario we've already seen a
massive increase in graphics performance on ice lake and Intel claims that the
performance will be doubled for tiger lake as Intel ships the dg won out to
software makers this year hopefully we'll see the performance of this
increase a lot and maybe we'll get something to compete
with NVIDIA but even if we don't it's going to be an awesome couple of years
for gaming on thin and lights
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