Intel Arc A380 GPU Goes Neck-and-Neck With GTX 1650 Super In New Benchmarks | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)
Seems on par with the RTX 3050Ti M and GTX 1650
Seems on par with the RTX 3050Ti M and GTX 1650
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Intel A380 leaked
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If it's a 3050ti competitor at a decent price then it's better than nothing.
It's not lack of £500 cards that's going to kill off PC gaming, it's lack of usable £200 cards.
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Surely this isn't Intel's flagship model? It's their entry level card surely?
Not quite entry but low end ; the A580 and A780 will be the higher end models (there's a slide on the link)
Oh, I don’t know, I have plenty of console owning friends who’d LOL at forking out £200 on one part of a gaming PC never mind £500, and even then, £500 barely matches a current console…
The PC gaming market is already well set on killing its golden goose…..
while I understand your view
there is a massive market out there for 3050ti performance and if priced right will fly of the shelves
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Hopefully this will be priced to slay the 1050 ti and make the GT 1030 / 730 pointlessly overpriced.
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A380? Wow, that must fly?
I’ll get me coat
I’ll get me coat
Intel better hope that it sells better than the bus.
They'll do well I reckon. They don't need to be range topping yet. I heard they weren't to be released until the end of the year, but apparently they are already shipping to OEMs for laptops and discrete GPUs.
I know this is OCUK and I know it's an enthusiast forum but the top end cards are not what sell the most. Or what most people buy or want. With the 3060 which IMO was lame selling for what it is anything would be brilliant right now. Had a look over Steam's most popular games. PUBG was in second. I would imagine Fortnite is still dominating too, and that is what people mostly want to play. So cards for that are the ones sorely needed, not Epeen cards. If times were different? yeah maybe they would get laughed off but when a 3060 is selling for £600 and Nvidia have re-released pretty much the same card on Turing (2060S) then you know things are worse than bad.
This is the ideal time for Intel to make their introduction. Get a grab of the market share and then go from there. Apparently next year is when the big cards are going to come.
I know this is OCUK and I know it's an enthusiast forum but the top end cards are not what sell the most. Or what most people buy or want. With the 3060 which IMO was lame selling for what it is anything would be brilliant right now. Had a look over Steam's most popular games. PUBG was in second. I would imagine Fortnite is still dominating too, and that is what people mostly want to play. So cards for that are the ones sorely needed, not Epeen cards. If times were different? yeah maybe they would get laughed off but when a 3060 is selling for £600 and Nvidia have re-released pretty much the same card on Turing (2060S) then you know things are worse than bad.
This is the ideal time for Intel to make their introduction. Get a grab of the market share and then go from there. Apparently next year is when the big cards are going to come.
I think it makes sense to go with a lower end part first, because it gives them a bit of time to optimise the drivers, fix bugs etc before launching the flagship, which could easily be branded a flop due to excessive hype if they don't get the drivers right.
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Wonder if these will be built in a way that discourages mining?
Because if it has good performance for that then it won’t change anything very much.
Because if it has good performance for that then it won’t change anything very much.
I dont think this is what they plan by all reports a full range will come out at the same time
Indeed. Hopefully they won't be absolutely terrible driver wise. Let's hope it's pretty much the same driver their onboard uses, in which case they should be good out of the gate.
Initial reports from last year indicated that they’d start with the lower-end chips and work up to the flagship models. We might not get 3090 or 3080 performance, but anything just under that would suit a large market segment.
I'm really unsure, I am no expert on these things but I doubt you can just take a basic driver that's been loosely optimised for onboard video (because nobody really expects great performance) and then suddenly port it to get the most out of dedicated GPUs consuming hundreds of watts that some people are expecting to compete with a card like the RTX 3070 which has two decades worth of driver optimisations to eek out every last drop of performance. If they can match 1080ti performance that will be a great achievement.
The power side has nothing to do with support. It all depends how closely they resemble the onboard. What I mean is, if they are the same technology and work the same adding more cores and more power to the card shouldn't make a huge difference. Like, a 3060 and a 3090ti use the same driver and work on the same principle.
It's if they differ. That said, I wouldn't worry too much. This is not AMD, and they won't leave a black/red screen issue for a year before finally getting around to it.
There could be a 3070 contender this time. IIRC they are releasing 3 SKUs, and the top end one could match a 3070. However, from what I have read the first card will be the low end 3050 contender. Which as stated, is a good way to start.
Raja was the guy who released the 470/80 and those worked brilliantly out of the box. In fact, I would say more smoothly than any AMD GPU I can remember.
The big cards are coming in 2022.
As much as I have not liked Intel in the past it is clear they have changed. They are getting more involved with the people who buy their products, and seem to be listening. They also have a team of hardcore gamers behind their GPUs (hence the stupid names) so yeah, I can't see how this won't be good for every one. For so many years it's been two companies. And when both are being a-holes? yeah, you need someone to give them a reality slap. I think Intel have now had theirs, so with any luck they will become a much more consumer friendly company over the next few years.
Besides, what else do we have to hope for? because it's a bit bleak right now
Go Intel !