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Arc is insanely good for a first attempt at a discrete GPU. It has mid tier performance for mid tier price, and drivers are still getting tons of work from inte
by mardifoufs 4y ago
Arc is insanely good for a first attempt at a discrete GPU. It has mid tier performance for mid tier price, and drivers are still getting tons of work from intel that makes them better and better almost every release. It's actually crazy that they managed to do so well (mid-tier is still amazingly powerful, all things considered). If they stick with it, there's no reason to believe they won't be able to compete at the high end, too. I honestly expected a massive trash fire when I first heard of Arc, just because of the countless edge cases and driver/API hell that even Nvidia and AMD seem to run into continuously.
- bitL 4y ago3060 wasn't mid tier performance when high-end Arc was released anymore.
- yieldcrv 4y agoits not Intel's first foray into cancelled discreet GPUs. they've been on and off with this for at least 13 years
- kjs3 4y agoThey've been trying with discreet gpus waaay longer than that. The 82786 is from the mid-80s.
- yieldcrv 4y agoI'm trying to understand their issue though, are they locked out of doing time tested solutions because of patents or something? My real question is are they just incompetent or are they not able to use known solutions.
- kjs3 4y agoThey aren't incompetent or ignorant (well...on a macro scale). They just didn't succeed in a market that's a niche in a subset of the market they're after. Intel makes a ton of money selling graphics silicon. They just haven't quite figured out the "plays the most demanding video games on max mode with a side of ML/AI" market yet. Predictions of Intel's demise are greatly premature.