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Intel larrabee knights Ferry working prototype!!!

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This guy's set is driving me nuts. He has such a piece of history, such a rare piece and has it running in some trash system with a monitor up in the sky and cables everywhere. Needs a nice test bench.
 
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It has DVI, HDMI, and is that Displayport connectors? :cautious:
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DisplayPort, yup,

here's what mine looked like before i traded it to a famous chinese collector for another FX 5800 Ultra (this time an A2 prototype with an actual PCB design flaw) "My 6th nVidia GeForce FX 5800 Ultra (ES / Engineering Sample : Revision A2). "The A2 revisions have a small PCB design flaw, so no slot bracket fits on the card. My A2-48 therefore also has no slot bracket."" See: https://www.heatware.com/evals/view/748316

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(Picture is of the larrabee I used to have)
 
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"So let's talk about the elephant in the room - graphics. Yes, at that we did fail. And we failed mainly for reasons of time and politics. And even then we didn't fail by nearly as much as people think. Because we were never allowed to ship it, people just saw a giant crater, but in fact Larrabee did run graphics, and it ran it surprisingly well. Larrabee emulated a fully DirectX11 and OpenGL4.x compliant graphics card - by which I mean it was a PCIe card, you plugged it into your machine, you plugged the monitor into the back, you installed the standard Windows driver, and... it was a graphics card. There was no other graphics cards in the system. It had the full DX11 feature set, and there were over 300 titles running perfectly - you download the game from Steam and they Just Work - they totally think it's a graphics card! But it's still actually running FreeBSD on that card, and under FreeBSD it's just running an x86 program called DirectXGfx (248 threads of it). And it shares a file system with the host and you can telnet into it and give it other work to do and steal cores from your own graphics system - it was mind-bending! And because it was software, it could evolve - Larrabee was the first fully DirectX11-compatible card Intel had, because unlike Gen we didn't have to make a new chip when Microsoft released a new spec. It was also the fastest graphics card Intel had - possibly still is. Of course that's a totally unfair comparison because Gen (the integrated Intel gfx processor) has far less power and area budget. But that should still tell you that Larrabee ran graphics at perfectly respectable speeds. I got very good at ~Dirt3 on Larrabee." --

https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#[[Why didn't Larrabee fail?]]
 
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erek said:
Winning bid:
EUR 4,650.00
Approximately US $5,191.96
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Looks like you should have held onto the Larrabee instead of getting another 5800 Ultra.
 
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Did anyone ever find a working driver for this so we can see how it stacked up against GPUs of the time? I assume not since the only hands on performance info I have ever seen is the Dirt 3 comment in the TomF blogged linked earlier in the thread.

From his comment though it sounds like it performed better than most people ever give it credit for.
 
Kardonxt said:
Did anyone ever find a working driver for this so we can see how it stacked up against GPUs of the time? I assume not since the only hands on performance info I have ever seen is the Dirt 3 comment in the TomF blogged linked earlier in the thread.

From his comment though it sounds like it performed better than most people ever give it credit for.
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Well I agree, but it's hard to give credit to something you've never gotten the chance to hold.
 
Kardonxt said:
Did anyone ever find a working driver for this so we can see how it stacked up against GPUs of the time? I assume not since the only hands on performance info I have ever seen is the Dirt 3 comment in the TomF blogged linked earlier in the thread.

From his comment though it sounds like it performed better than most people ever give it credit for.
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