The Arc B580, one of Intel’s new “Battlemage” GPUs, will start at roughly $250, according to early retail listings for the graphics card that surfaced today. Specifications for the GPU have also arrived courtesy of a new listing on Geekbench, one that alludes to 160 Compute Units, 20 Xe2 cores, 12 GB of memory, and a maximum frequency of 2,850 MHz for the new Arc hardware. Intel’s Battlemage GPUs are expected to be available for purchase before the end of the year.
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Join Discussion →Wait, didn't Intel just announce that they weren't releasing discrete GPU's anymore?
Not quite. This gen is already committed to, more or less, but after that is anybody's guess.
Looking forward to seeing how they perform. Guessing initial numbers should be consumed with a large quantity of salt. Driver and other update will come.
Probably.
But I also presume they will be way more mature at launch than last gen. Some of the driver maturity and lessons learned will be inherited by this one.
We can only hope but given how much of its staff that Intel has laid off over the last 2 years, and possibly more on the way, we won't know for sure until they do launch and are tested. I know that sounds like stating the obvious but the total layoff #s from the last 24+ months is close to a quarter of its staff, maybe more.
It's speculated to perform on par with a 4060 Ti. If that's the case for $250 it's a slam dunk. Or course drivers and game support will be an issue.
Typed an elaborate post about this but deleted it, seems pointless, people made up their minds by misreading an announcement nothing I type will change that.
I was tempted to try one of their cards here a while ago, but the driver issues kept me from pulling the trigger.
If only intel could release something that could perform like a RTX 4070Ti for the right price.
I'm not sure intel could even compete with AMD.
More rumours fwiw https://wccftech.com/intels-celestial-druid-desktop-gpu-lineups-are-very-much-alive-team-blue-to-focus-on-mobile-gpu-scaliability-in-the-future/
I think focusing on mobile GPU's is wise for Intel. It's a market not heavily targeted by the other key players yet other than qualcomm right? Maybe Xeonos?
The cat is out of the bag
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Man this thing is pretty much worthless without XeSS, the performance at native res is terrible. But for the price... Let's see what AMD comes up with.
Seems ok for the price, their ray tracing was already decent and they improved it, and these cards seem substantially faster then the 700 series from their previous gen, if it checks out in reviews.
The amusing part is that the only performance comparisons they give us are the GTX 1060, and GTX 1660 Super.
Am I really supposed to be impressed by a brand new GPU in late 2024 being compared to mid to low level Nvidia GPU's from 5-10 years ago?
Though at $249, maybe that is all we can expect these days.
There was a time when $249 would buy you a mid to high end GPU, but that was obviously a long time ago, when GPU's looked like this:
That said, this is about the same price point as the AMD Radeon RX 7600 (non-XT). I guess it will be interesting to see them head to head. I'm guessing we are also not very far from AMD's 8000 series launch, so maybe a low end 8000 series GPU would be a better comparison when it launches.
Either way, this is not my market segment.
Any product that requires fake pixels or fake frames to be playable is just not for me.
I expect to be able to crank up all the settings at 4K at native resolution, with 0.1% frames never going below 60.
If I can't get that, I don't want it and won't buy it under any circumstance.
If I were shopping for GPU's today, I would consider the 4090 to be insufficient in meeting my requirements, and would not buy it. I'd wait for the 5000 series.
Honestly, given this bit right here I'm surprised you even took the time to comment on this card. It's very much not in your market segment, and never was even going to be close. I could easily imagine you may be in the market for a GPU for quite some time, as there's always some new game that renders existing GPUs insufficient to meet your standards.
It is interesting the marketing department chose the 1060 to compare it to...