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The cheapest 16GB card around with driver updates already improving performance is now $50 cheaper
The A770 is going to be the niche card of choice for AVI encoding and AI/ML with PyTorch
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This is dangerously close to the price of a 3060, just $100 more to go.
How well does this work for video (more specific obs/ streaming) encoding? Like would it function as well as nvidia’s nvnec where the card can handle gaming and streaming at the same time? For all the encoding talk I don’t see any reviews on the subject matter.
From what I heard pretty bad, and lots of driver issues causes most of games unstable. I’d recommend wait for least the second gen of these
Ah damn that’s too bad.
Still it’s a good sign, I’m sure they can eventually get it right like AMD did with Ryzen
@HairyChickens: How far back was this? Source?
Rumours were debunked back in September:
https://www.laptopmag.com/news/rumor-debunked-intel-denies-a…
It does sound like performance in newer/future titles is fine. Honestly if you're not much of a gamer I think this could be a pretty cool GPU to play with
If there is a 2nd gen that is. Almost looks like a repeat of the Intel i740 from the late 90s. Late to the party, poor drivers and doesn't perform as well as nVidia and AMD (back then it was ATi) cards at similar prices.
FWIW, I've got an Arc A750 and had it doing 10 simultaneous 1080p AV1 encodes, (Quality High, ICQ 23), the CPU load was <5%, the average encode speed across all 10 processes was 60fps, and GPU power usage was an extra 18-20W and 2℃ above idle, (as reported by Arc Control).
Intel are so dumb, they could've released these in Jan and made a killing selling them to crypto miners (would've been a ~$2k AUD card), instead they postponed the launch by 10 months to try and improve the drivers for gaming, and now neither miners or gamers want them. Slow clap.
The executives that decided to do this probably have 8 figure compensation too lol.
Did you…try to lecture intel on how to make money?
They need the help. The launch went so poorly they've left the dGPU market entirely. And they've lost nearly all their CPU market to AMD.
So your suggestion is to launch a product 10 months before it's ready during colossal component shortages?
As for CPUs, I have used AMD since 2018 and you would need to be legally blind to not know that Intel still has over 60% of the market share.
Trust me when I say the $100+billion company does not need your help.
So your suggestion is to launch a product 10 months before it's ready during colossal component shortages?
It was ready to launch in January. If you've seen any ARC reviews, they all have Jan-Feb production dates. Intel bought up a lot of VRAM and TSMC silicon in the peak of demand, made the GPUs, didn't launch them when they were ready to go because their gaming drivers were bad, but did launch them 10 months later when their gaming drivers were still bad and mining was dead.
As for CPUs, I have used AMD since 2018 and you would need to be legally blind to not know that Intel still has over 60% of the market share.
They've retained market share by cutting their margins back to almost nothing, but it's not sustainable.
Trust me when I say the $100+billion company does not need your help.
True, but I could've saved them $4b by telling them to ship all their GPUs to mining farms. But then anyone with half a brain could've told them that.
@iseeyou1312: Hardware manufacture is not the same as software readiness. Releasing with "bad" drivers is better than releasing with "drivers that actually don't work at all making the product literally unusable in breach of consumer protections in many countries".
Are their GPUs good for mining?
Would have miners actually bought them?
And probably the best question, do you genuinely think that dumping all their stock to miners would have helped Intel for anything other than a short term hit?
Nvidia dumped a bunch of cards to miners, and it's resulting in them getting sued by their shareholders.
Not to mention them dumping the stock inflated their value inaccurately, which has pretty consistently dropped since that time.
Please, great half-brained thinker, start your multibillion dollar company and prove to us all how well you know the industry. Until then, I'm going to continue operating under the assessment that you're incorrect here.
@Sleeqb7: Nvidia only got sued for lying to investors back in 2017 mining craze about it being gaming revenue, not because they sold to miners.
If you buy an arc GPU now you’re being a beta tester for Intel.
If you want a GPU that you just install and it works then don’t get an Intel Arc.
Those that like playing around with settings and workarounds while watching the official drivers improve over time will enjoy the Arc experience.
I’m kind of tempted but prices are still too high
Intel are finished with dGPUs, you aren't a beta tester, they're basically in their final version.
Not sure where you got that information. The next gen “Battlemage” GPUs are confirmed in development. Looks like Intel is in for the long haul
They're losing too much cash on dGPUs. The US is heading for a recession and tech companies are laying of thousands of staff. They'll release Alchemist/Battlemage and then exit.
@iseeyou1312: Breaking into an established market is always going to be very costly. I’m sure Intel knew this when they approved the project.
There was rumours early this year that they’d kill the entire project and if they had decided to give up it would have been then.
It takes years of development to make each generation. They likely in early stages for Celestial and maybe even started on Druid
It could still fail and Intel exit the dGPU market but signs show they’re committed to a long term plan
Some tech journalists released a 'rumor' that intel was leaving the GPU market because they didn't have a perfect first launch. This was picked up by other writers who lack critical thinking, and assume Intel would spend several years poaching staff from AMD and engineering a completely new product line, just to dump it a few months after launch.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/09/20/intel-might-be-mov…
The x86 architecture is dying a slow death. Intel isn't leaving the GPU market, they need it.
I'd give it a go if there was some sort of 30day money back guarantee.
Too expensive as a AV1 en(de)coder
I wish I had disposable income - I would buy this in a heart beat. I just want to mess around with it man…. It's so exciting! And it really pleases my autismo nature to have a GPU and is the same brand as the CPU.
The ultimate build would be to have Intel CPU+GPU+SSD+motherboard ahaha
Have you heard of AMD? I hear they might make your wish come true.
haha no for sure, I have been tempted to build an AMD machine with that infinity fabric goodness - in good time! Lack of funds is a major roadblock atm
Curiously following this…
Will be interesting to see if stable diffusion runs well on it