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The Significance of GPU has sky rocked to a level that its even required for running an Operating System. Windows Vista made this impact and made GPU more significant, which was otherwise required for only gaming and video editing. Nowadays  every user not only looks at CPU and Memory configuration, the GPU is also considered with equally importance. Even thought  the use of dedicated GPU is limited its fast rising.

Intel’s plans to introduce its new architecture, Sandy Bridge, which has 2 integrated GPU’s and that run at about 1-1.4Ghz may be a challenge for the GPU developers. Even though  these may not seem so dangerous for now. Intel’s plans to improve it much higher grade in the future.

Intel wanted to  integrate all the computation into a single device which was the CPU. GPU was introduced to give some extra bandwidth for image processing. And now with the introduction of Intel’s Nehalam processor and GPGPU, things have have become a bit interesting for whom is to survive this race. GPU has replaced the CPU in many roles which was otherwise performed by the CPU. The power to price ratio of CPU is no where near that of the GPU, even though a GPU is capable of doing computation limited to vectors it may be such that such developments may significantly decrease the role of CPU to a drastic level. CPU will be limited to do just the basic computation purpose and the rest may be done by the GPU. There will be time when we may ask “Whats the specs of your GPU?”, instead of asking for the CPU.

It may seem clear to say that the GPU will rise over CPU, but Intel’s proposed new Larrabee architecture has raised hope for intel to power its graphic power and compete with the GPU vendors in the future. Its not a question of who will survive? But its a question who will dominate?

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