Previews - Intel 32nm Clarkdale CPU-and-GPU chip benchmarked

[HEXUS]

Intel will release chips that integrate the GPU on to the same package as the CPU. We benchmark a 'Clarkdale' system, to see if it's any good.

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[oolon]

The problem with intel integrating the graphics processor onto the cpu is intel graphic solutions suck. They produced a great CPU with the atom, then chained it to a naff chipset with rubbish graphics, it was not until nvida release the Ion chipset did we really see what it could do.

[Fraz]

The "Latency, Memory and HEXUS.PiFast" page and the "Multithreaded Benchmarks" page seem to be identical to me.

[Parm]

The "Latency, Memory and HEXUS.PiFast" page and the "Multithreaded Benchmarks" page seem to be identical to me.

Fraz, thanks for the heads up. The pages have been fixed.

[Whiternoise]

Screw in-chip IGP, i want Larrabee dammit!

[stmok]

Screw in-chip IGP, i want Larrabee dammit!

Larrabee (discrete video card version) comes in mid-2010...At the moment, it works (demo'ed at IDF 2009), but it isn't optimized. Don't expect much from it: GF8800GT-like performance? Definitely a mainstream product. NOT performance/enthusiast solution.

Larrabee based IGP-in-CPU variants won't be available until 2012. That's when a new processor, codenamed "Haswell" arrives. We're talking 2 generations away from the current Core i3/i5/i7 line.

I'm curious how Larrabee performs in the GPGPU area.

Either way, patience is a virtue.

[dandack]

Did Intel say anything about a 32nm quad cpu westmere?
Are we stuck with 45nm lynfield and bloomfield until 22nm sandy bridge?

[latrosicarius]

Putting them together also eliminates just how much value a third-party chipset company can add, too.

I think this sentence would be better if eliminates was changed to limits.

P.S. I love the idea of doing this. Get rid of integrated graphics once and for all