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Intel's Clarkdale to Pack GPGPU Support
Techtree News Staff, Dec 07, 2009 1751 hrs ISTVideo encoding will be enabled through a driver update
Intel's next generation 32nm Westmere microarchitecture based chips for desktops, codenamed Clarkdale, will get video encoding support through driver update, reported X-bit Labs. Next generation dual-core 32nm Westmere based Clarkdale for desktops and Arrandale for mobile platform are expected to shown off at the Consumer Electric Show 2010, starting January 7.
Intel's Clarkdale chips would achieve video encoding by offloading the CPU tasks to the GPU. General Purpose GPU technology allows the CPU to pass on the processes to the GPU. Hence, the CPU's complex computational tasks will be handled by GPU. The new 32nm Westmere based Arrandale and Clarkdale will have dual core chips will have 32nm CPU core and 45nm graphics core packed along with DDR3 memory controller.
As Nvidia is being bullish about the GPGPU push, Intel has slowly started acknowledging the importance of general purpose processing on GPUs. This is an indication that Intel might consider opening GPGPU support for its future line of product.
Recently, Intel scrapped its plans to launch Larrabee. Looks like Intel has let Nvidia-ATI fight continue rather than be the third one in the ring.
Intel's Clarkdale chips would achieve video encoding by offloading the CPU tasks to the GPU. General Purpose GPU technology allows the CPU to pass on the processes to the GPU. Hence, the CPU's complex computational tasks will be handled by GPU. The new 32nm Westmere based Arrandale and Clarkdale will have dual core chips will have 32nm CPU core and 45nm graphics core packed along with DDR3 memory controller.
As Nvidia is being bullish about the GPGPU push, Intel has slowly started acknowledging the importance of general purpose processing on GPUs. This is an indication that Intel might consider opening GPGPU support for its future line of product.
Recently, Intel scrapped its plans to launch Larrabee. Looks like Intel has let Nvidia-ATI fight continue rather than be the third one in the ring.
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