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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.

Like if ARC has never existed before?

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".

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.

I guess the Arc a750 in my workstation is imaginary?

What the fuck? What kind of idiotic article is that? Did Techcrunch go down the drain too?

Slowpoke news

The problem with intel. They never just keep going. They announce some new gpu/graphics product and when it falls short they don't or wont stick with it. They abandon it and use it as a write off. They have done this multiple times and I have no reason to believe they will do anything different. The last time was just a few years ago and when sales and performance lagged they just quit.

Doesn't Nvidia have $5bi stakes of intel? I wonder how that influences their decisions.

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.

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

Aren't TPUs like dramatically better for any AI workload?

Been looking at their Arc B50/B60 but still too expensive in Canada

From what I've read about the "quality" of their drivers, .. NVidia isn't under any threat, whatsoever.

Years before bugs get fixed, etc..

( Linux, not MS-Windows, but it's Linux where the big compute gets done, so that's relevant )

https://www.phoronix.com/review/llama-cpp-vulkan-eoy2025/5

for some relevant graphs: Intel isn't a real competitor, & while they may work to change that .. that lag is SERIOUSLY bad, behind NVidia.

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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.