Intel: upgrade GPU have no benefit to users
NVIDIA seems very unhappy with Intel, not only showed us upgrading CPU is useless and even hinted Intel’s upcoming graphic solution Larrabee will be a vaporware:
“Larabee is a PowerPoint slide,I haven’t met a product on my PowerPoint slide that I don’t like. You know, they’re floating Larrabee out there just to put a shadow over us, cast a cloud over us. They’ve already slipped it two years from the time they talked about. They would love to slip it another four years and leave a cloud over me.” (NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, CNET interview)
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But now Intel’s begin to strike back. In Intel’s latest road map documents, they use lots of pages to show an interesting comparison: upgrade from G33 IGP mobo to NVIDIA 8800GTX won’t bring any benefit on 3D rendering music photo and video processing.
But after all, being a gamer, only upgrade GPU or CPU is not a wise choice, just think about Alan Wake and other upcoming titles…
These chart is taken from NVIDIA‘s “new” product propaganda slide. The tried to persuade gamer buy more VGA cards other than a enthusiast CPU like QX9650.
In other words, upgrade a processor will benefit a lot, but game performance is not included.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Weren’t the GPU was only meant in improved HD video quality, rendering 3d and gaming only?
what does it got to do with the music, photos and videos encoding? I dont even think of the current onboard video would render well on 3d or even in autocad right now. maybe few mores years for intel will do.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
[…] Intel te enseña a maximizar tu presupuesto Simplemente compra un mejor CPU En marzo de este año, les contamos como NVIDIA pretendía que nosotros maximizáramos nuestro presupuesto. Hoy Intel ha contado su versión de la historia y del como se debe maximizar un presupuesto para un PC, sin ninguna gran sorpresa Intel dice que debemos comprar un mejor CPU. Pinche para agrandar Se preguntaran como es posible que ambos muestren gráficos y datos diametralmente opuestos, es bastante simple, NVIDIA piensa en un PC Gamer e Intel piensa en un PC de trabajo. Fuente: Expreview […]
May 13th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Why do users upgrade to high-end GPU’s? TO PLAY GAMES! lol @ Intel for missing the point
May 13th, 2008 at 2:46 am
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May 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
thats the biggest lie i had a E6750 and when i changed to a QX6850 their was a big diffrence in games at fps
May 14th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Nice revenge from Intel on Nvidia…
May 14th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
That’s funny. Intel and Nvidia are supposed to be partners in PCGA, yet they are provoking each other. But Intel is really missing the point of buying GPU.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Suuure, onboard graphics is the premier choice for 3D rendering in Autocad etc…
Looks like there are only complete and utter morons working at Intel XD
May 16th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Yeah, what good is it to look down onto GPU by Intel when it hasn’t produced any good GPU since 10 years ago with the mid-range (if I remember correctly) Intel 740 discrete graphics card? Well said that it’s propaganda.
The primary reason for buying discrete graphics is to play games and 3D applications (and now HD video, but that works on low-end discrete cards as well). Now integrated graphics also sap your main memory? Nobody pointed that out. So, you’ll need to buy more memory to compensate for that fall in overall system performance.
Seriously, anyone who’s into gaming would definitely go with discrete graphics, at least a $100 card. Those who want budget might go for Intel, but would they really be able to play Crysis and other modern games? I doubt that.
AMD is going to come up with a real powerful integrated ATI graphics soon (let’s hope so). But I think NVidia is here to survive, even though Intel sells more integrated chipsets than NVidia and AMD/ATI.