Posted on Friday, June 24 2011 @ 23:07 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Intel claims that it's 22nm Haswell architecture will rival today's discrete graphics cards. It's unknown if the company is talking about mid-end or high-end GPUs though, and after the Larrabee debacle we aren't expecting too much..
Haswell will utilize the same power-saving tri-gate 3D transistor technology that will first drop with Ivy Bridge in early 2012. Major changes architecturally reportedly include a totally redesigned cache, fused multiply add (FMA3) instruction support, and an on-chip vector coprocessor.
The vector process, which will work with the on-die GPU, was a major focus of the post. The company is preparing a series of commands called Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), which will speed up vector math. It writes:
Intel AVX addresses the continued need for vector floating-point performance in mainstream scientific and engineering numerical applications, visual processing, recognition, data-mining/synthesis, gaming, physics, cryptography and other areas of applications. Intel AVX is designed to facilitate efficient implementation by wide spectrum of software architectures of varying degrees of thread parallelism, and data vector lengths.
Source: DaiyTech
