If you are thinking about getting a computer...

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by nitro, Oct 30, 2008.

  1. promagma

    promagma

    Integrated video makes it seem like a low end chip.

    But 6 CPU cores, and people who will never use 6 cores will pay $$$. :)
     
    #21     Jul 16, 2010
  2. LeeD

    LeeD

    They also opted for an integrated memory controller.

    I guess the engeneers figured that very few people would want to make use of such graphics controller. Then why make everyone else pay for it?
     
    #22     Jul 16, 2010
  3. #23     Jul 16, 2010
  4. nitro

    nitro

    People must not understand where I was going with this. The point is that an integrated GPU with hundreds of cores, access to which is through DMA and not through a bus, would friggin rock!

    AMD is working on something called Fusion that is supposed to be the same thing...
     
    #24     Jul 16, 2010
  5. ET151

    ET151

    Both are currently available:

    http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/intel_rolls_six

    Some of the i5 CPUs already have integrated graphics.
     
    #25     Jul 16, 2010
  6. kolnstyle

    kolnstyle

    It would also be a bit of a nightmare to cool, unless you step down a size as far as fabrication goes. In addition, building all those caches for each compute core on the chip is going to be a bit difficult. It's a great idea, but we'll see when it will come around.

    Edit: This is in reference to full scale GPUs.
     
    #26     Jul 16, 2010