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Intel Talks Graphics: 10X Improvement By 2010?

Michael J. Miller of PC Computing attended an Intel Financial Analyst Meeting on Wednesday. At the meeting, Eric Mentzer, GM of Intel's Graphics Development Group, talked about "visual computing" (Intel's term for graphics), including both integrated graphics and "Larrabee," the company's upcoming high-end graphics processor. Intel noted that it is planning to advance the graphic processing technology by one generation a year for the next 4 years.

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mighty_douche6691d ago

More importantly, 10X hardware price by 2010? Because I'm finding it hard to justify current price's and i really dont want to lay my PC gaming to rest.

Kakkoii6691d ago

The prices don't matter. Almost every new advancement in this area will cost a lot of money at first.

But you can't just not do the advancements cause it's expensive. It needs to be done so we can move forward. They become cheap over time just like previous advancements.

All it is, is more complex fabrications, better designs and more advanced ways of doing things. It's not like there going to be making processors out of pure Diamond lol.

So the answer to your question is, Yes it will be kind of expensive, but over time it won't be. It's not like you HAVE to buy it as soon as it comes out -_-. (Mass Production + Automation = Cheap)

likeaboss3026690d ago

I'll tell you one thing even if Intel made a 10x improvement in their graphics line it still wouldn't even be as good as NVIDIA's midrange 9600GT.

TheIneffableBob6690d ago

For their integrated graphics, perhaps.
But I expect Larrabee to surprise us.

ip-student6690d ago

I do suspect the next generation of CPUs to include a larger number of cores. And with Intel's recent interest in gaming I suspect the next gen of consoles will have Intel inside. If the next gen includes the power to raytracing it will be interesting to see if people decide to use procedural generation and basically eliminate much of the development process when it comes to asset generation or if people decide to continue to do things the old way but provide amazing graphics (realistic people that cross the uncanny valley).

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Top Racers Need Top Gear – Introducing the Forza Horizon 6 Limited Edition Controller and Headset

Omar writes: "With the Horizon Festival coming to breathtaking Japan, you’ll need the essential gear to prove you’ve got what it takes to become a Horizon Legend as you cruise, drift and explore an open world full of spectacular driving experiences. That’s why we’re happy to announce the newest Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller and Wireless Headset collection, featuring inspired designs from Forza Horizon 6. The bright cyan and lime colorways celebrate the Horizon Festival’s recognition of iconic cars and hit music, with special features that are sure to impress any collector."

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Killer2020UK70d ago

Oh my, that is one gaudy design

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EasySMX D05 review

You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.

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"It's Just So Lame" - RTGI Modder Thinks DLSS 5 Is Impressive But Shares AI Slop Sentiment

Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.

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CrimsonWing6996d ago

I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.

isarai_lee96d ago (Edited 96d ago )

It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good

blacktiger96d ago

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.

Chard96d ago

Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether

theshizer96d ago

If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.

isarai_lee96d ago

And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?

blacktiger96d ago

You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.

Andrew33696d ago

Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet

Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet

isarai_lee96d ago

Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install

VS

The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.

Not at all the same but nice try

jwillj2k496d ago

At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.

Andrew33696d ago

The good news is you can just not use it as well.

Christopher96d ago

It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.

Urrakia3496d ago

All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"

I think we all know how that ended up.

Popsicle96d ago (Edited 96d ago )

I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.

DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.

blacktiger96d ago

Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!