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Intel releases half finished GPU

Intel Arc has been quite a red herring as of late; It was supposed to launch Q1 this year, got delayed to Q2 and has only recently got an official release date... which just so happens to be the same day that the arguably more exciting RTX 40 series cards from Nvidia come out. Regardless, Intel's first second attempt at dedicated graphics card has been fraught with nothing but hardship judging by the supposed silicon level issues the Alchemist architecture (and supposedly also Battlemage, too) has, as well as the fact that there were rumors of Arc straight up being cancelled. Alas, the multi-billion corporation has decided to release the product that they have poured multiple billion dollars into and... it's ok.

The Arc a770 and a750 are mid range graphics cards that compete in price and performance with the RTX 3060, and to that end, the intel cards are in fact roughly as performant as aformentioned Nvidia card whilst also costing slightly less money. Just, uh, pretend that AMD doesn't exist is all.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841351672892022.webp

The only issue however, is the fact that Arc isn't quite ready, with it's lack of native DX9 and gimped DX11 support being quite glaring. Of course, it's intel's first second shot at this so it is to be expected that their hardware and drivers aren't going to have the maturity of products that have decades of development and fine tuning behind them, BUT, come on, man.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841351680104342.webp

And on the topic of drivers, they're in a rough state, apparently, lacking basic features such as fan control as well as refusing to output an image on certain monitors. Ouch.

These cards release soon so there is almost no chance that any of these major issues will be fixed by the time consumers can get their hands on them. Early access hardware, what a world we live in ey?

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If they just FOSS their drivers they will get like 400k evangelists in an instant, I know I would switch from Nvidia to Arc for example

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i hope they don't cancel them and keep trying, muh competition plus intel has great linux drivers usually :marseynerd:

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Why are they fricking up so hard. Doesn't the new 40 series also suck? What is the deal with these chip manufacturers brah is it really so expensive they have to cut corners like this

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As previously mentioned, intel GPUs at least have an excuse for sucking due to them being new to the whole thing. AMD, Intel CPUs and Nvidia however is a different story, they're trying to eek out as much performance as possible whilst being hard limited by chip design. The only way out is either innovation or software optimization but they just keep pumping more and more power into silicon for fractional gains and it's fricking stupid.

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40 series doesn’t suck, it’s just expensive and eats up power. It’s not an enticing product for personal use.

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Nvidia are fricking up on purpose :marseybigbrain:

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Finally, the Linux powerhouse gpu we've been waiting for

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Poor Intel

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How much more performance can be expected from driver optimization etc. in the future? 50%?

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