I had to check the date on the article. They’ve been making GPUs for 3 years now, but I guess this announcement–although weird–is a sign that Arc is here to stay, which is good news.
The actual chips are farmed out to TSMC, I don’t believe they’ve made any in house so I’m guessing maybe they’ve decided that they’re going to do that sometimes now? But then, even some of their CPUs are made by TSMC so I could be on a very wrong path.
thanks for your effort
Well that article was a waste of space. Intel has already stepped into the GPU market with their ARC cards, so at the very least the article should contain a clarification on what the CEO meant.
And I see people shitting on the arc cards. The cards are not bad. Last time I checked the B580 had performance comparable to the 4060 for half the cost. The hardware is good, it’s simply meant for budget builds. And of course the drivers have been an issue, but drivers can be improved and last time I checked Intel is actually getting better with their drivers. It’s not perfect but we can’t expect perfect. Even the gold standard of drivers, Nvidia, has been slipping in the last year.
All is to say, I don’t understand the hate. Do we not want competition in the GPU space? Are we supposed to have Nvidia and AMD forever until AMD gives up because it becomes too expensive to compete with Nvidia? I’d like it to be someone else than Intel but as long as the price comes down I don’t care who brings it down.
And to be clear, if Intels new strategy is keeping the prices as they are I’m all for “fuck Intel”.
CPU overhead is quite well known and actually damages a lot the arc cards’ position on the budget class
Am I living in an alternate timeline? They’ve been making GPUs for quite some time- and B580 was actually pretty good, incredibly good for the price.
What the fuck? What kind of idiotic article is that? Did Techcrunch go down the drain too?
The comma should be replaced with " which will be"
Tom Peterson, who’s been working at Intel for half a decade: Am I a joke to you
I don’t know if “GPUs” is the right term, but the only area where we’re seeing large gains in computational capacity now is in parallel compute, so I’d imagine that if Intel intends to be doing high performance computation stuff moving forward, they probably want to be doing parallel compute too.
The term you’re looking for is GPGPU (General Purpose computing on GPU)
Doesn’t Nvidia have $5bi stakes of intel? I wonder how that influences their decisions.
Aren’t TPUs like dramatically better for any AI workload?
Oh no, Nvidia’s pet is rebelling. Maybe they should be remindes of their current status
Damn. I though this thread was being hyperbolic but they really wrote it like Intel will, for the first time in their history, making GPUs lmao
Oh great, some wildly overpriced and underperforming GPUs.
Edit: went looking at Intel’s desktop GPUs and found this gem:
Powerful AI Engines
Unlock new AI experiences with up to 233 TOPS of AI engine performance for content creation, real-time AI chat, editing, and upscaled gaming.3
And checked out the specs for performance of Intel’s top cards (B580/A770) against a basic 3080 card (no OC/TI, whatever) and the intel cards ranked well below the older 3080, and weren’t even in the ballpark against upper tier 4- and 5- series Nvidia cards. Plus missing features like DLSS, etc.
Good enough for non-FPS dependent gaming? Sure. Can’t beat the price, I was wrong about that. Want to play high-FPS demanding twitch gaming? No.
Atleast it’s a 3rd contender, but afaik the Arc series had a decent enough pricing, although AMD’s prices seemed better, but not sure
They won’t be for you.
You mean non shit non arcs? They tried already and failed already with battle mage.
No, they’re talking about GPUs for AI.
Not gonna make a lick of difference without the support to run CUDA.
ZLUDA exists.
It isn’t much of a challenge if they suck. Just planning to make them doesn’t mean shit.
Also, why do none of these articles have a summary posted for them? These are some seriously low effort posts.
