Intel IGP to be Targeted at “Casual” and “Mainstream” Gamers?
Intel IGP to be Targeted at “Casual” and “Mainstream” Gamers?
Posted 12/30/2009 at 2:47pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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It’s not all that much to go on--a PowerPoint slide purported to have been disgorged from the bowels of Intel, but with actual provenance unknown. It does, however, offer the possibility of interesting speculation on the direction that Intel might be taking in its quest to cobble on a graphics processor to its CPUs, in its effort to compete with ATi and Nvidia.
The slide originates at donanimhaber.com (which Google says is in Turkish, so good luck with it--even translated it doesn’t make sense). Matthew Humphries, at Geek.com, offers his take: Intel is going to focus on middle- to low-end gaming environments in building an integrated graphics processor (IGP), and leave the high end alone.
What’s Intel aiming for? According to the slide, their IGP will be targeted at games such as World of Warcraft, Battlefield Heroes, The Sims 2, Peggle, Bejeweled, and Diner Dash. Each level targeted constitutes either “a broad user community” or the “fastest growing PC games segment”. Roughly translated: the places where numbers favor Intel’s venture being successful.
Whether this represents Intel’s thinking on its HD Graphics project we may soon know. Humphries expects the slide to make an appearance, if it’s legitimate, at CES in January.
Image Credit: donanimhaber.com
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MeTo
December 31, 2009 at 8:17am
Intel has been making big claims for years they just never materialize.
Riskjudge911
December 30, 2009 at 5:01pm
Heh I have been with Intel forever..and the only and only graphics processor that was ever worth a crap was the Starfighter 3D..and umm gee that was only 12 years ago...for integrated graphics there is nothing worse than having a pc with Intel GMA junk. Works for HD video and web browsing but thats it..ATI and Nvidia will continue to run circles around Intel for the next 100 years....
nekollx
December 30, 2009 at 6:05pm
I'll say this much is Lambree or Whatever they call it CAN run WoW level games at 30FPS I'll be quite happy to use their GMA. Besides with DX11, Open CL and the like that can only means good thing for gamers who will (eventually) hand off the bulk of the 3D acceneration to the GMA and can use a inexpensive dedicated card for the "overflow"
Also, think of the Laptops.
The idea of running WoW at 30FPS on a laptop with GMA is tempting...even at 15 or 20 FPS...
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Biceps
December 30, 2009 at 3:42pm
How is this any different from the current graphics chipsets that Intel does? The only difference is that it will all be on 'one chip'. Whoop-dee-doo. Intel should stick with what they are good at: CPUs. It is obvious from this and everything else you can find on the net that Intel's people have virtually no idea how a GPU even works compared to a CPU. I think that is why they are choosing to serve 'mid-end' games... because they simply can't figure out how to make a GPU that would even boot Crysis. Nice spin, though, nice spin.
nekollx
December 30, 2009 at 3:05pm
WoW, Battlefield Heroes and Sims 2 are being compared, technologaclly, to Peggle?
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Shagga
December 30, 2009 at 8:37pm
Well actually, Peggle is in the casual gamers section. Also... have you read all the games in the casual section? It looks like most of them appeal to teenage facebook-addict with IQs ranging from 60-80.
-Shagga
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