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A Wild Intel GPU Joins the Fight

Elder Legend

Elder Legend

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Intel® Arc™ Graphics Overview

Intel Arc GPUs enhance gaming experiences, assist with content creation, and supercharge workloads at the edge.
www.intel.com www.intel.com

NOT to compete with 3090 RTX yet. More of a easier entry/average gamer for now.
Codename Alchemist with 3 more in the backline.
Release Date Q1 2022.

Expecting more official final specs at CES next month in January.

I love their CPUs I have a i9 3900X and love it. Excited too what the GPUs will bring.

Your thoughts?
 
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Elder Legend said:
I love their CPUs I have a i9 3900X and love it.
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Elder Legend said:
www.intel.com

Intel® Arc™ Graphics Overview

Intel Arc GPUs enhance gaming experiences, assist with content creation, and supercharge workloads at the edge.
www.intel.com www.intel.com

NOT to compete with 3090 RTX yet. More of a easier entry/average gamer for now.
Codename Alchemist with 3 more in the backline.
Release Date Q1 2022.

Expecting more official final specs at CES next month in January.

I love their CPUs I have a i9 3900X and love it. Excited too what the GPUs will bring.

Your thoughts?
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Elder Legend said:
www.intel.com

Intel® Arc™ Graphics Overview

Intel Arc GPUs enhance gaming experiences, assist with content creation, and supercharge workloads at the edge.
www.intel.com www.intel.com

NOT to compete with 3090 RTX yet. More of a easier entry/average gamer for now.
Codename Alchemist with 3 more in the backline.
Release Date Q1 2022.

Expecting more official final specs at CES next month in January.

I love their CPUs I have a i9 3900X and love it. Excited too what the GPUs will bring.

Your thoughts?
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Well I hope their drivers are up to snuff by the time they launch dedicated cards.

This is what Halo Infinite looks like on any Intel GPU right now, yes it's below spec but anywhere else that would just mean it runs slower. Can't for the life of me convince them it's a driver issue, after talking to their support eventually they all resort to check with your OEM when this is on Intel direct DCH drivers, or I get "it requires dedicated graphics" (they call Xe Max dedicated with 4GB of VRAM, so...) but the point is getting the drivers ready before their actual cards come out.

 
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Is this a new tech for their ultra light internal GPU or something dedicated ones ?

I really want Intel to do internal GPUs good. Games like INSIDE has become my go-to-suggestion for non gaming people with normal laptops.
 
It's going to be interesting, that's for sure. The competition is fierce, Intel took an head AMD engineer so who knows.

Intel has been doing everything so slowly for so long, I'm not sure they'll keep up in this space. It takes them forever to launch a product, even when someone else is fabricating it. It's become a joke, but I'm hopeful. There is a good chance they permanently lost the fabrication war, now that TsMc is venturing into HPC space.
 
Chris_Rivera said:
It's going to be interesting, that's for sure. The competition is fierce, Intel took an head AMD engineer so who knows.

Intel has been doing everything so slowly for so long, I'm not sure they'll keep up in this space. It takes them forever to launch a product, even when someone else is fabricating it. It's become a joke, but I'm hopeful. There is a good chance they permanently lost the fabrication war, now that TsMc is venturing into HPC space.
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Yes.

Raj Kodura. The guy responsible for Vega....
 
TheThreadsThatBindUs said:
Yes.

Raj Kodura. The guy responsible for Vega....
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www.pcgamesn.com

Rumour suggests AMD redirected 2/3 of Raja's Vega engineering team to Navi for Sony's PS5

There are fresh rumours flying around today suggesting that AMD deliberately sacrificed the RX Vega cards as two thirds of the GPU engineering team responsible was allegedly diverted to Navi and the console-based semi-custom unit... against Raja Koduri's wishes.So, did those bloody games consoles ru
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This puts the reason for him leaving in a very different light if true. 2/3rds of his team pulled from Vega for Navi while he was left with a shoestring people budget and made to look bad.

I think Arc graphic are where we'll see for sure, with presumably lots of resources at his disposal.

As mentioned though, the weak link I worry about is their driver team.
 
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LordOfChaos said:
www.pcgamesn.com

Rumour suggests AMD redirected 2/3 of Raja's Vega engineering team to Navi for Sony's PS5

There are fresh rumours flying around today suggesting that AMD deliberately sacrificed the RX Vega cards as two thirds of the GPU engineering team responsible was allegedly diverted to Navi and the console-based semi-custom unit... against Raja Koduri's wishes.So, did those bloody games consoles ru
www.pcgamesn.com www.pcgamesn.com

This puts the reason for him leaving in a very different light if true. 2/3rds of his team pulled from Vega for Navi while he was left with a shoestring people budget and made to look bad.

I think Arc graphic are where we'll see for sure, with presumably lots of resources at his disposal.

As mentioned though, the weak link I worry about is their driver team.
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Regardless of the staffing issues, which would have had more an impact on the readiness of the drivers than the actual microarchitectural design, Vega conceptually was a relatively small iterative bump on the GCN architecture. It was always going to be non-ideal and inefficient because, at those transistor densities and transistor counts, the core of the GCN underpinnings would always be cracking at the seams.

Navi was a brand new, more or less, ground-up design, built for fast clock speeds and thus big energy efficiency wins. It's no wonder Navi was given the priority it deserved over Vega. So Raj can moan all day about the starved resourcing for the micro-arch, but he more than anyone else knew it was always gonna only ever be a stop-gap final iteration of GCN before the newer, better Navi came along.
 
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I for one am excited to see more competition in this space. Also wondering if these will mine crypto well and maybe help some of the supply issues the industry is having.
 
All their gpus are gonna end up in crypto farms anyways.

The chips being also made at TSMC, it wont solve any of the availability issues we have.
 
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Elder Legend said:
www.intel.com

Intel® Arc™ Graphics Overview

Intel Arc GPUs enhance gaming experiences, assist with content creation, and supercharge workloads at the edge.
www.intel.com www.intel.com

NOT to compete with 3090 RTX yet. More of a easier entry/average gamer for now.
Codename Alchemist with 3 more in the backline.
Release Date Q1 2022.

Expecting more official final specs at CES next month in January.

I love their CPUs I have a i9 3900X and love it. Excited too what the GPUs will bring.

Your thoughts?
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I used to love their CPUs, too. Then I took a Ryzen 5950x to the knee and didn't look back.
 
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