Tom Forsyth on Nostr: nprofile1q…a90j6 For what it's worth, the original Larrabee (KNC with an OpenGL ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqdymfj9a0sjmnh7e93fs7mxklyj0v7g7mlgj8tc7ef9jllrkpzypqwa90j6 (nprofile…90j6) For what it's worth, the original Larrabee (KNC with an OpenGL "driver") was the absolute king of the hill for CAD rendering. Because of the way we did short AA lines, and the tile-based architecture, instead of having all these queues flying around between rasteriser, shader and ROP units, we just did it all in one place.

Sadly it was a market Intel has zero interest in. But it showed nicely that there were some places where a truly general-purpose architecture could really shine.