Intel’s Next Integrated Graphics Solution

Wednesday, Mar. 1 2006 | Author: Dave

It looks like the next integrated graphics solution will be Intel’s Graphics Media Accelerator 950 core which will bring DirectX 9 Pixel Shader 3.0 and HDMI support to cheap desktop PC’s everywhere.

So suggest presentation slides purportedly from Intel and posted on Chinese-language website HKEPC last week. The slides claim CVT will incorporate “advanced” de-interlacing, MPEG 2 hardware acceleration, HDMI support, backing for Microsoft’s WMV9b HD codec, full floating-point precision operations, and the ProcAMP brightness, contrast, saturation and hue calibration API, itself supported by DirectX’s DirectShow component.

Does anyone know if this will be enough to run Windows Vista with any level of graphics? Does anyone even run Integrated graphics anymore? (Laptop users excluded)

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3 Responses for "Intel’s Next Integrated Graphics Solution"

Kent

March 1st, 2006 at 10:53 am
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Does anybody run integrated graphics? How about everyone who buys a new Mac Mini? – they’ve dropped the Radeon card for an integrated GMA950, the very same as mentioned above…

From what I’ve read around the place, this new Intel chip is aimed at supporting Vista, so maybe it has more cojones that the usual integrated crap…
evilkat

March 1st, 2006 at 1:22 pm
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I’d have to wait and see what the benchmarks are like for it. It’s good that they’re finally supporting MPEG2 decoding though…which they will have to, in order to take advantage of Vista’s integrated media center capabilities…
John

March 1st, 2006 at 1:29 pm
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I run an integrated GeForce 6100 (using 128MB of shared RAM, working on a PCIex16 bus) and it works great. I have a free x16 slot for a video card, but I can already play all my games at decent framerates, so it’s hard to justify spending a few hundred on a graphics card. Not to mention the fact that it’s cooled only with a heatsink, so a completely silent video card.

The real aim of most integrated graphics is business computing though; for a long time most businesses didn’t or don’t need 3D acceleration, but as computing moves towards taking advantage of that power even the business workstations need to have the power to support it.