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Intel Battlemage GPU has surfaced in the wild — GPU spotted with 24 Xe2 cores, 19 Gbps memory, 12GB VRAM, 192-bit bus (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] sunzu@kbin.run 68 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We really need them to succeed here along with amd. nvidia price gouging is unchecked.

[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, on every launch, AMD looks at Nvidia's price gouging and says, "Yeah that pricing looks good for us, too."

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But they then change pricing like 4 times over the next 3 months to bring it to a semi reasonable level at least.

Nvidia just says, yeah the high end shit is $3k. Suck it. Up to the day a new one launches, or even longer sometimes.

[–] pao@feddit.org 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They don’t have high end stuff, it’s all just house fire starting equipment these days.

[–] LinusSexTips@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Intel too are heavily invested in that market. Coming from a 13900kf owner.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 3 months ago

Again?

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Intel pushing into the gpu space is so obviously them trying to get the public to R&D AI hardware since Nvidia is so far ahead of everyone in that game.

It would be great if they accidentally did some good, but it's not something they are going to keep getting better at.

A Linux optimized GPU would be an interesting product, even if its still just R&D for an entirely different goal

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ironically a field where AMD sucks at too. Though, there has been some good progress & fixes with ROCm recently. I don't mind a win / win situation between Intel & consumers though. The gpu market is seriously fucked for quite a while now and some more competition would really help.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm skeptical about how much another competitor would help...if intel can offer a comparable product, they'll get right in on the price gouging too. Why wouldn't they?

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because Intel is in a position where they would need to increase their market share first and foremost. They would not have any sort of benefit from offering overpriced GPUs that no one wants to buy.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

So they're either in the "no one wants to buy" situation, with a product that doesn't quite measure up and a lower price is the incentive to buy, or they reach parity with AMD, and bring the price up to match as well.

Maybe there is a window in between where they're sacrificing some profit to grow their market share, and regular customers benefit, but I have 0 faith in this economic system.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

R&D AI hardware

The consumer space has always been to pay for the commercial R&D

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

You arent wrong.

And for what its worth, i also like boobies

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sweet. Can you run power through it without starting a fire?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's Nvidia's thing.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Intel: Hold my beer

[–] darkfiremp3@beehaw.org 11 points 3 months ago

I’m excited for more competition, and someone not making $4000 cards; at the same time, being slower than a 3070 ti…

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 9 points 3 months ago

Intel, eh? Hahahahaa

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

After screwing over all the CPU owners, I can safely say I'll pass...

They don't seem to be taking the CPU fixing seriously

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Serious question: Was there ever an intel GPU which could be used to play 3d graphics intensive games? The only chips I came across so far were woefully underperforming laptop chips with fancy names.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Arc 7 series GPUs were aimed at gaming. They didn't generally perform on par with the competition, and there were driver issues at launch. IIRC they just couldn't run anything DirectX 9 or older, but performed ok on newer games.

I don't know what the status on them is like now.

[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Their driver support supposedly has gotten a lot better, but I can't confirm myself. I did get their cheap a380 for an encoder card for my Jellyfin server because it's pretty much the cheapest offering with an AV1 hardware encoder. It's working great for that so far.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

arc A750/770 was ~AMD RX 6600/XT or Nvidia 3050/3060 performance, just with (significantly) worse drivers where whether a game would run properly was a flip of a coin

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

Didn't see any price rumors.