Ever since Intel poached AMD’s Radeon Tech Group Leader Raja Koduri, we suspected that it would be getting into the discrete graphics world. Following a small announcement last November, we're finally seeing the chip maker take things to the next step with a new prototype.
At the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Intel unveiled a prototype GPU based on a 14nm process. According to PC Watch, the prototype GPU contains 1.542 billion transistors split between two chips; one being the actual graphics processor unit and the other a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
The inclusion of an FGPA suggests that this prototype GPU might be in development for workstation and server use rather than gaming or mining.
Intel hasn’t disclosed the intentions of its prototype and has only referred to it as a proof-of-concept. Without any performance numbers, we can’t draw many more conclusions here either. However, as with the company’s processors, you can expect that GPU architecture to be as efficient as it is powerful.
Regardless of which direction Intel goes, the fact that it’s closing in on dedicated graphics cards should make the market dominated by Nvidia and AMD a little more interesting.
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