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There's some rumors of an Arc Pro, which would be a B580 in clamshell configuration with 24 GB of VRAM (which iiuc would be the same memory bandwidth unfortunat

• mrandish 2y ago
  That would be nice for AI-curious users and hobby experimenters, however gamers won't find near-term value in VRAM beyond 16GB. My concern is that due to Intel's severe financial challenges, their CEO du jour will end up killing off the discrete GPU business. Back when they (finally) got into dGPUs seriously, Intel (and everyone else) said it would take many years and the patience to tolerate break-even products and losses while coming up the learning curve. Currently, it looks pretty much impossible to sustain ongoing profitability in low-end GPUs. Given gamer's current performance expectations vs the manufacturing costs to hit those targets, mid-range GPUs ($500-$750) seem like the minimum to have broad enough appeal to be sustainably profitable. Unfortunately, Intel is still probably years away from a competitive mid-range product. Sadly, the market has evolved weirdly such that there's now a minimum performance threshold preventing scaling price/performance down linearly below $300. The problem for Intel is they waited too long to enter the dGPU race, so now this profit gap coincides with no longer having the excess CPU profits to go in the red for years. Instead they squandered billions doing stupid stuff like buying McAfee.