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Eóin:
I'm personally interested in their new range of APUs, the Fusion range. I've been reading a lot about OpenCL recently and they seem like a fascinating architecture to target. In particular because small form PCs built around them are relatively cheap.

I haven't heard much feedback about them though,

f0dder:
Intel has on-CPU GPUs as well - not as powerful as the AMD/ATI ones, though... but if you're mainly going to play with it, and the CPU goes in your main system... well, I'd go for the more powerful CPU :)

Eóin:
Intel's OpenCL implementation can't utilise the on-chip GPU. I believe I've read that their future integrated GPUs will be supported, but the current ones won't be.

f0dder:
Intel's OpenCL implementation can't utilise the on-chip GPU. I believe I've read that their future integrated GPUs will be supported, but the current ones won't be.-Eóin (December 15, 2011, 02:37 PM)
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So, write code for DirectCompute? :) (that should be supported... one of the gpgpu APIs definitely is, as there's transcoders utilizing the onchip gpu).

JavaJones:
And as it happens, the i7 2600k is going to be about 30% faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T in many cases, so it kind of works out. :D
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8150-zambezi-bulldozer-990fx,3043-12.html
Tasks that are heavily multithreaded like 3D rendering and media encoding (some) are a bit more equal, but the 2600k still wins out, despite having 2 fewer cores.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8150-zambezi-bulldozer-990fx,3043-15.html

- Oshyan

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