Intel GPUs are coming

[tsk]

By now you've all read the news about Intel CPU's with Radeon graphics on the same PCB as well as them snapping up Raja Koduri from AMD. 

 

With this news also comes a big, but subtle announcement from Intel; they are gonna start building dedicated graphics solutions. 

 

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In this position, Koduri will expand Intel’s leading position in integrated graphics for the PC market with high-end discrete graphics solutions for a broad range of computing segments.

 

Can this mean future gaming graphics cards from Intel? 

Possibly. But it certainly means Intel is seeing the huge potential of HPC and GPUs important role in that. 

 

Now my little birds at Intel tell me all of this is a result of one competitor Intel sees as a serious threat; Nvidia. 

The GV100 compute chip from Nvidia sits alone at the throne in the Compute space, and Nvidia is making some serious money selling it. 

 

Any thoughts on Intels future role in the GPU market? 

 

 

PS!  This thread revolves around Intels future plans to join the GPU market, not Raja Koduri joining the ranks or the recently announced EMIB board mixing Radeon and Intel. 

 

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[zberry7]

You beat me! This is the best thing to happen in a long time  

 

AnnandTech article:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12017/intel-to-develop-discrete-gpus-hires-raja-koduri-as-chief-architect

 

Obviously if this comes to be, it will take a while before a GPU would come to market, hopefully they will make gamer oriented GPUs. Can’t wait to buy an intel GPU, and actually bring competition back into the space. This is getting interesting.

 

I must be hallucinating, Raja left for intel, AMD working with Intel, and then Intel GPUs? Maybe nvidia will make a CPU and we will have 3 competitors in both markets lol

 

edit: From the wording of the article I expect them to make a full stack of both consumer and HPC products. And I don’t see why they would make a GPU and not reuse the chip in a gaming card to make a larger ROI on all of the r&d this is going to take.

[Drak3]

Larrabee!

Larrabee!

Larrabee!

[Droidbot]

2 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Larrabee!

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Larrabee! 

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Larrabee!

[Princess Luna]

Here in 10 years we'll have a computer rocking a nVidia CPU and an Intel GPU for the lulz the way things are moving.

 

Intel Iris Pro 80 Ti

[shermantanker]

Sweet! The more options the better.

[tsk]

15 minutes ago, zberry7 said:

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It will certainly bring some much needed competition, just crossing fingers for that gaming GPU. 

[TidaLWaveZ]

If you hate intel for their pricing now just wait until they start making CPU's that gimp the opposing companies GPU performance, forcing you to either lose performance or pay extra to have both an intel CPU and GPU.

 

I hope this doesn't come to fruition, but I can't imagine it happening any other way.

[zberry7]

15 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Larrabee!

Larrabee!

Larrabee!

From the actual wording on Intels website, they say they are expanding their iGPu lineup into high end discrete graphics solutions which seem to imply normal gPUs as well, along with compute solutions

[Taf the Ghost]

Intel has tried this, what, 3 times before? We aren't going to see consumer cards. AMD & Nvidia can prevent that with IP lawsuits.  However, this is a Tesla competitor in the HPC/ML/AI space. That's something Intel has patents within the space to do, and they've been losing customers to the really focused GPU compute setups.

 

However, it'll be 3-4 years before we see anything. And Raja has to actually deliver a product that competes with Nvidia.

[Phentos]

We probably won't see anything come into the market from this until probably 2020. 

 

By that time my wallet will be wide open as I intend on building a top end HEDT system around the same time.

[Bouzoo]

Now with Intel in the game, we will literally have teams Red, Green and Blue (RGB). What a time to be alive. 

[Droidbot]

Just now, Bouzoo said:

Now with Intel in the game, we will literally have teams Red, Green and Blue (RGB). What a time to be alive. 

Truly a great time in computing.

[PlayStation 2]

7 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

Intel has tried this, what, 3 times before? We aren't going to see consumer cards. AMD & Nvidia can prevent that with IP lawsuits.  However, this is a Tesla competitor in the HPC/ML/AI space. That's something Intel has patents within the space to do, and they've been losing customers to the really focused GPU compute setups.

 

However, it'll be 3-4 years before we see anything. And Raja has to actually deliver a product that competes with Nvidia.

We all saw how that turned out. 

We got an overclocked Fury X with HBM2.

[Shreyas1]

Since intel will be able to spend more on research and development than AMD, we might have more competition 

[Taf the Ghost]

6 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

Now with Intel in the game, we will literally have teams Red, Green and Blue (RGB). What a time to be alive. 

I guess we really have "RGB'd all the things!". 

[FPSwithaWacomTablet]

Nice...

 

Radeon Larabee incoming

[zberry7]

Right now the GPU market is expanding quickly with more workloads suited for them, so it makes sense. And from the wording on Intels website it seems they will make consumer cards.

 

anyway, if they are going to manufacture the chips, why not throw some of them in consumer cards to make a bigger return on R&D? Obviously it’s not quite that simple but it’s not like they have to design a separate chip

to target consumers, and if they can squeeze more revenue from developing a new architecture they I don’t see why they wouldn’t.

[IAmAndre]

If this means a Surface Gaming tablet, I'm definitely in. I would be even more excited if they focused on improving their iGPU's because there hasn't been any improvements recently.

[Inkz]

Raja leaves AMD for Intel, Intel makes a dedicated GPU, what is even is life? What does it mean?

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, Inkz said:

Raja leaves AMD for Intel, Intel makes a dedicated GPU, what is even is life? What does it mean?

It means we're yet to see an even shittier stock cooling on reference cards once Intel boards in GPU market.

[Inkz]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

It means we're yet to see an even shittier stock cooling on reference cards once Intel boards in GPU market.

I can  just see the "INTEL EXTREME EDITION GPUS!!!!" So extreme they don't even come with a cooler and expects you to bring your own.

[NumLock21]

Intel had discrete gpus back then, it's the Intel 740.

 

[Princess Luna]

Just now, Inkz said:

I can  just see the "INTEL EXTREME EDITION GPUS!!!!" So extreme they don't even come with a cooler and expects you to bring your own.

Obviously the unlocked k models of the Iris Pro will only come with the PCB, you go and find yourself some damn water block for it if you want to use it

[WMGroomAK]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

Obviously the unlocked k models of the Iris Pro will only come with the PCB, you go and find yourself some damn water block for it if you want to use it

Don't forget that they'll only be overclockable on an X or Z series board. Otherwise, expect the Intel GPU to run at some very conservative base frequency.