A working prototype of Intel’s Larrabee graphics card, the company’s attempt at a hybrid CPU and GPU, has been sold for $5,234.
As reported by Tom’s Hardware, the prototype GPU, which is apparently the only functioning Larrabee graphics card in the world, was sold on eBay France for 4,650 euros .
As such, when considering the fact that this may very well be the only working Larrabee GPU currently available, it’s slightly surprising that it didn’t command a higher price. “If you are a serious collector, this is going to be probably your only chance to get this piece of history,” the listing stresses. It’s unclear how the seller, who has a 100% feedback rating on eBay, managed to obtain such a rare PC component, but it seems to be the real deal judging by the pictures.
Intel essentially wanted to create a board that would offer other functions beyond providing graphical performance in video games. With this in mind, Larrabee could have performed tasks such as real-time ray-tracing and irregular shadow mapping, which standard GPUs at the time were incapable of carrying out.
Tom’s Hardware highlights how the architecture Larrabee was based on could have potentially even allowed the GPU to run its own operating system. Ultimately, however, its graphical performance was unable to match or exceed what other cards were offering. Intel decided to cancel the release of Larrabee as a graphics card in 2009.
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