Intels new XEON chip

[Joseph Kelly]

Supposadly 20x performance boost ? I'll believe that when I see it http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184828-intel-unveils-new-xeon-chip-with-integrated-fpga-touts-20x-performance-boost

[Sauron]

Well intel tends to exaggerate a bit on these performance boosts, probably 20x is the absolute maximum they obtained in a program that's specifically optimized for that cpu, but still even 10x would be awesome still, I'll never be able to afford one ^^

[Lays]

20 times lol

[0s4x]

Yeah...20x... k.

 

I'd expect 20% to be a more realistic boost.

[Levent]

it comes with an FPGA so yeah you should be seeing that kind of an improvement over some tasks 

[WinNut]

I want that when I can afford it.

[Mo5]

It's like that magic nVidia driver... 240% improvement - realistically they got 2% :lol:

[wpirobotbuilder]

The reason it can be 20x is because you would configure the FPGA with logic that is optimized for your workload. That's kind of awesome.

 

I used an Intel/Altera processor/FPGA for the Cornell Cup USA competition last year (DE2i-150), and the results can be pretty cool if you program the FPGA in an optimal way.

 

+1 Intel. Most people won't care, but some businesses certainly will.

 

Look up FPGA if you don't know what it is; the TL;DR is that it's an array of transistors that can be programmed and re-programmed to do almost anything, including this:

 

[Joseph Kelly]

If i'm honest this is really cool But i doubt there would be a lot of software optimized for FPGA ?

[qwertywarrior]

Supposadly 20x performance boost ? I'll believe that when I see it http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184828-intel-unveils-new-xeon-chip-with-integrated-fpga-touts-20x-performance-boost

god damn it i wanted to post this !

[Thorium19]

After what the article says, imagine that in a consumer i7/ e3 xeon.

[wpirobotbuilder]

If i'm honest this is really cool But i doubt there would be a lot of software optimized for FPGA ?

You would program the FPGA to be optimized for your software, not the other way around. So cool!

 

Imagine if consumer CPUs came some day which had FPGAs that could be programmed to do nothing but physics calculations, and do them super fast.

[steffen_anywhere]

it comes with an FPGA so yeah you should be seeing that kind of an improvement over some tasks 

Yeah...coin mining...

[qwertywarrior]

After what the article says, imagine that in a consumer i7/ e3 xeon.

H265 encoder !!!!

Can record gaming at much lower size and increased quality

[Joseph Kelly]

Could this be a step towards a CPU that could be programmed to be a good enough APU also ?

[mymouthandi]

Good move by Intel, FPGA's are cool. 

[vitor_cut]

its the same thing that amd uses in kaveri, in HSA compatible apps the performance of the chip grows a lot, intel with this fpga does wath amd has done with trinity and richland because Intel does not have a HUMA similar memory so they will need to work on that a litle bit to arrive to an true HSA chip, and i hope they arrive soon because its the only way that we consumers can obtain this processing power, and for that we need INTEL and AMD to push in the same direction, Its a shame that this XEON chip its a semi-costum chip and not a mainstream