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According to a presentation made by Intel in 2006, Larrabee will be available on a PCI Express 2.0 card, and will have a TDP greater than 150 W, possibly as high as 300 W

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According to a June 2007 PC Watch article, the first Larrabee chips will feature 32 x86 processor cores and come out in 2009, fabricated on a 45 nanometer process. Chips with a few defective cores due to yield issues will be sold as a 24-core version. Later in 2010 Larrabee will be shrunk for a 32 nanometer fabrication process which will enable a 48 core version.[4]

The x86 processor cores in Larrabee will be different in several ways from the cores in current Intel CPUs such as the Core 2 Duo, taking lessons from Intel's ongoing "Tera-scale" research, as exemplified by their "Polaris" 80-core processor demonstrator. Larrabee's x86 cores will be much simpler than those on a Core 2 processor, not using out-of-order execution. This will allow them to be much smaller, so more can fit on a single chip. Other differences include the addition of a new set of extended instructions similar to SSE but more focused on graphics applications, and 4-way simultaneous multithreading for each core.

Here are few screenshots of the realtime raytracer we developed at VRcontext (www.vrcontext.com), and that has been presented during the Intel Research Days last week. It's a realtime raytracer designed for massive models. The images are from two different models, one is an oil platform made of a bit more than 100 million triangles, and the other one is a chip manufacturing factory of 200 million triangles (you need few gigabytes of memory to keep these in memory), there is no instantiation or level of details, it's all there each frame. On our local 16 core machine it runs at 20 to 30 fps under the following conditions: 640x480 with 4 times supersampling (x4AA), dynamic shadows from a directional light and on the fly real ambient occlusion (not backed, neither fake SSAO). We observed perfect scalability (x15.9 speed up compared to monocore). The demo machine was 24 cores, so we believe the performance was around 37 fps. Without ambient occlusion you can navigate at full framerate (>70 fps). As explained, it runs only on the CPU(s), the GPU is not used at all (not even for image postprocessing).