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Intel Broadwell Graphics: Fast and efficient attack on AMD

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Intels-Broadwell-Grafik-Schneller-und-effizienter-Angriff-auf-AMD-2390225.html

Google translate does a reasonable job.

Funny how people are referring to a german tech site for Intel news.

In case the translation didn't help really:

The article is stating that Intel Gen 8 integrated graphics is an attack at AMD. Especially shared cache and memory does counter AMD's HSA efforts. Heise expects the Broadwell 48 EU integrated graphics to even outperform AMD's upcoming desktop platform Carrizo.

The 24 EU variant delivers the same performance as the previous 20 EU variant but with a much lower clock and a package TDP of about a third (I guess this is comparing Core M with Haswell Y).

The video decoding unit provides visual enhancements at very low power (@100 mW) whereas the video encoding stage is twice as fast as the previous one.

What is missing compared to AMD is HDMI 2.0 which is necessary to drive 4k displays. For those, one would need a Display Port connection instead with one of those chips.

To sum it up: Intel now provides leading integrated graphics with low power consumption. Their HSA alternative sounds nice but I never believed much of the benefits AMD was talking up. This highly depends on the tools supporting easy or, much better, automatic use of those techniques by a compiler. Where Intel is the most likely to implement such in their own compiler chain, it seems too complicated to do by a compiler. Therefore I highly doubt that this is much of a benefit and raw CPU performance will remain the most important in daily computing.