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Intel has begun showing off a "continual compute" sit-in that essentially takes the concept of an eGPU — an external graphics carte continued to a laptop via Thunderbolt — and abstracts it further over your network to a remote PC.

Intel presented the concept at the Realtime Conference on Monday, which, like about every visitor inside the past few weeks, latched on to the concept of "the metaverse" as an opportunity to sell more than products. Raja Koduri, senior vice president and general manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Grouping, presented continual compute every bit a solution to the problems posed past the metaverse. Those problems being capturing real-earth objects in existent time and then translating that environment into the virtual space and vice versa.

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Essentially, though, continual compute has a more immediate touch on on PC gaming. That's how Intel chose to show the technology off in a weblog mail service on Tuesday. Using the game Hitman 3, Intel showed off how a thin-and-low-cal laptop could connect to a local gaming PC and use its GPU to offload some of the graphics workload. (Intel hasn't posted the embedded video to its YouTube channel, then yous'll have to sentinel it on its site.)

The video shows the game running on the laptop and taxing the CPU and GPU to its limits. Later remotely connecting the external gaming PC, the same game ran at higher frame rates and visual quality. However, Intel didn't enable a framerate counter and it'southward non quite articulate what the visual settings were prepare at during the demo. The video did appear to run more smoothly and at a better quality.

Clarification: The video voiceover does note that the "local experience" is being run at low resolution and low quality settings, through without the actual resolution. The enhanced experience is presented at "high resolution and total Hard disk settings," without further description.)

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Intel's secret sauce here isn't hardware, just software. Information technology's an abstraction layer than can detect what Intel calls "ambient computing," or the presence of a more powerful PC that tin exist applied to the task at hand. "This is precisely what Intel's infrastructure layer delivers," the video's narrator says. "Information technology sends usa boosted compute resources available within the network and intelligently allocates information technology to me delivering the best user experience possible."

"As the game launches at runtime, the infrastructure layer determines that a better experience is possible using ambient computing resources from my gaming rig," the narrator continues. The improvements are role of what Intel calls "arrangement resources abstraction," where the game'south file system is being bathetic and delivered over the network.

To be off-white, we've seen some of this before. In 2015, Microsoft enabled game streaming from Xbox Ones to PCs running Windows x even over Wi-Fi. In that case, the console was handling the bulk of the work. Intel'due south blog post implies that its technology could be a bit more collaborative. Companies like Steam and Moonlight have offered similar experiences, though. Cloud gaming on Windows, of grade, simply abstracts these shared resources into the cloud.

Still, information technology's adept to have top chip vendors supporting an (optimistic) futurity where we simply take underutilized GPUs lying about and waiting to be taken advantage of for gaming. We already have network-attached storage, could we eventually run across network-attached GPUs too?

This story was updated at 4:45 PM with additional clarification.