Intels gaming chips will rock - "Conroe" looking good

[FarFarAway]

Blimey there's too much news to keep up with!!

Intel say that their nmew chip "Conroe" will be a kick-ass gaming chip!

"The performance of Conroe will deliver an absolute value of performance higher than where we are today," Steve said. "Inevitably, gaming is going to be moving to multithreaded programming. The next generation console boxes are multithreaded, and our new processors are multithreaded.

"We're at an inflection point where both are moving in the same direction, so that's where the future is going to be. As games get more threaded, they're going to get better."

So yes we knew this but apparently some are being multi-threaded sooner than we thought!! (see another post in progress!

PPU's (dedicated physics chips for PC's??): Intels says:

In terms of development targeted at consumers, we ship large numbers of PCs for consumers, and roughly 2/3rds of those are performance PCs. How many PCs are going to have that kind of physics processor in? It will be difficult for developers to justify moving physics calculations from the processor to a dedicated piece of hardware because 90% of new Intel PCs will be shipping with dual core chips by 2007. Developers want to hit the maximum number of people with their products to get the best return on investment.

So basically as Intel are gonna flood the market with dual cores so we won't need PPU's!! Ah well - as long as games are good I don't give a flying....

Full article @ Bit-Tech

 

[balilu]

but still wouldn't it be better to have a PPU for just the physics and the dual core cpu for the rest. maybe we wouldn't need that kinda power with most next gen games but what about the generation of games afterwards