Larrabee can play Crysis better than the GTX 285

Charlie Demerjian wrote May 20, 2010 that, "They only *publicly* showed a raytracing demo, but they put out lots of other videos of things running. I may have seen lots more. It ran Crysis at playable frames when the software was still immature."

Fast forward to today, a smart idiot says, "Knight's Ferry can't play Crysis or any game really for that matter but this is most likely a driver-limitation than a hardware one since we've seen Larrabee being able to play Crysis(or was it Far Cry 2?) where it was better than GTX285 which back then was the best GPU around. But it seems that Intel has completely abandoned the idea of using Larrabee for gaming and that the architecture will be used only for HPC and servers."

Nvidia's GTX 285 is a bit stale, released in January 2009, so it's almost 2 years old now. The revelation that Larrabee isn't totally a dud (except that it's a 300w monster) is earth shattering, except it seems, Larrabee was playing Far Cry 2 back at IDF 2008 in public! It's a shame such technology is being steered toward HPC, like I earlier surmised.

Canning Larrabee sort of makes sense though. Since graphics are becoming increasingly irrelevant, Intel might as well milk this x86 pseudoGPU. "Performance on my LIBOR Monte Carlo
application is similar to Fermi, and 10× better than quad-core Nehalem."