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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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