Intel and NVidia have been having a tiff for the last couple of years. Recently, Intel didn't allow them access to their chipset for the latest generation of cpus which forced Nvidia to use a round about way of processing and it is still fast.
Its like saying, Hey lets make a cake. You are making cakes together for 5 years then all of a sudden the other person doesn't want to share the recipe. On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Oughtta be fun... > > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> I think that in the next year or two Intel and Nvidia will be competing >> head to head on the cpu market. >> NVIDIA thanks Intel for saying GPUs are 'only' 14 times faster than CPUs >> By Donald Melanson <http://www.engadget.com/editor/donald-melanson> >> <http://www.engadget.com/editor/donald-melanson/rss.xml> posted Jun 24th >> 2010 1:52PM >> >> <http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/nvidia-thanks-intel-for-saying-gpus-are-only-14-times-faster-t/> >> Well, we've gone a full month since the last >> episode<http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/nvidia-intels-moorestown-is-like-an-elephant-on-a-diet-ipad-s/>of >> NVIDIA's and Intel's >> ongoing <http://www.engadget.com/tag/intel,nvidia> public feud, but it >> looks like Intel has now stoked the flames once again (albeit inadvertently) >> in a paper presented at the recent International Symposium on Computer >> Architecture. That attempted to debunk the "100X GPU vs. CPU myth," but it >> also contained the tidbit that GPUs are "only" up to 14 times faster than >> CPUs in running application kernels, which NVIDIA has more than a happily >> latched onto. In a blog post, NVIDIA's Andy Keane says that it's a "rare >> day" when a competitor states that their technology is *only* 14x faster, >> and that he can't recall another time when he's "seen a company promote >> competitive benchmarks that are an order of magnitude slower." Of course, he >> then further goes on to note that Intel's tests were done with NVIDIA's >> previous generation GeForce GTX 280, and that the codes were simply run >> out-of-the-box without any optimization -- but, still, he seems more than >> happy to accept this bit of "recognition." In Intel's defense, however, the >> overall finding of the paper (linked below) is that the performance gap >> between a GTX 280 GPU and Core i7 960 processor is actually just 2.5X "on >> average," which NVIDIA hasn't highlighted for some reason. >> >> -- >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >> Mahogany at: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >> > > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
