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By Randomblame on 2/26/2009 5:36:45 PM , Rating: 2

Anyone who has ever done any coding in direct3d will tell you that the hardware doesn't matter thats what the API is for! An x86 graphics card is interesting but what will the benefits be? It will need it's own API in order to efficiently code the types of things you do in games! The end product will be the same to coders, we will code through the API and it will run. What matters will be as always price/performance for consumers. I think nvidia will have more to offer on that end. The ability to use certain larabee cores for non 3d programming isn't even exciting to me, those cores will be ridiculously slow and inefficient compared to just using the cpu(s) for that. Intel you've got a dud, drop it before you waste any more money on r&d.

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By yomamafor1 on 2/26/2009 5:52:26 PM , Rating: 2
Larabee is more of a GPGPU than a GPU. I would imagine the x86 architecture will allow more GPGPU software adoption, since most programs nowadays are more reliant on repetitive processing.

In essence, I think Larabee is Intel's idea of Fusion. Eventually Intel may also go down the route of mix and match between CPU and GPU cores.

