Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020

Great. Except the kind of parallel processing Larrabee was supposed to provide isn't something anyone wanted.

It's a half-pregnant architecture. Not parallel enough to compete with GPUs, not enough single thread performance to compete with Intel's own CPUs.

http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#

While it's focused on ISPC (https://ispc.github.io) it does go into a lot of detail about what happened at Intel during the Larrabee & post Larrabee days.

I assume you mean that each GPU gets a variable number of execution units, as opposed to code randomly failing depending on the core it gets run on.

You've just helped me realize that AMD and Nvidia overproduce every GPU and kill off the execution cores that don't work to reach the final fixed number (and that all GPUs probably have a few tens to hundreds of working cores that will never ever be used).

Unfortunately I don't think such variation would work, from a market standpoint: actually exposing the lossiness rating would devalue you as a manufacturer, solely because of the fact that the media would pounce on it like crazy, and even though said media would simply report what's there without putting malice in anyone's mouth, the fuss would mean naive users would go "wat", collectively conclude "well the number is smaller", interpret that to mean "vague less-iness", and bam, people don't think your product is as good.

Despite the fact that, for all intents and purposes (read: not mining), you are 100% right.