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Intel will launch its first dGPU line-up starting at $200

On top of @Vince nice summary, how can they use the words affordable and for everyone when their cpu's are exactly like nvidia's model of milk the cow, high price tag? May aswell just admit they are way behind the game for GPU's so have to start at the bottom.
 
Th0nt said:
On top of @Vince nice summary, how can they use the words affordable and for everyone when their cpu's are exactly like nvidia's model of milk the cow, high price tag? May aswell just admit they are way behind the game for GPU's so have to start at the bottom.
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You can't argue with that this will be comical to watch and follow I am sure. Does anybody remember SiS in the gpu space when the tried to come back with their Xabre line of GPU's about 16/17 years ago? I think it was the 200, 400 & 600 and the specs, the specs were decent for the time even compared with some high end competition. I wanted to see what it was like so I actually bought one, I **** you not the only game I ever managed to make work on the thing was starwars Jedi knight the drivers were basically alpha software, it was a total joke. I had a few gpu's back then including the geforce3 ti500, 9700pro etc and this thing didn't even come close in any aspect, it was a hideous waste of money. I am not sure if I want to see this levels of fail from Intel but anything is possible :)
 
Th0nt said:
On top of @Vince nice summary, how can they use the words affordable and for everyone when their cpu's are exactly like nvidia's model of milk the cow, high price tag? May aswell just admit they are way behind the game for GPU's so have to start at the bottom.
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Agree. It's something I find amusing about the "hell yeah, bring on Intel competition to the GPU market", when they've held back the CPU R&D for years until AMD started rising from the grave.
Any sniff at beating Nvidia and AMD and you can bet their prices will be relative too, unless they really do try to grab a market share but we wouldn't fall for that, right? Cheap now, expensive later once folks are tied into their GPU kind of ecosystem.
I don't hold much hope of them doing things for the consumer given what they did with CPU's.
They've failed at their previous venture into GPU's although this time is more crucial for them I think given the non-gaming uses these days.
 
The skeptical side of me will find this amusing when Intel comes to market priced within £20-30 of the competion and nothing really changes. Still high GPU pricing.

It's great that AMD brought high CPU core counts at the higher end with close single core performance for people who want that compared to Intel.
 
To patch some of these holes you can also receive a performance drop.. so when we used to be 20% faster we are now no faster than the previous generation but thanks for the purchase! :)
 
Any additional competition in the GPU market is to be welcomed and if mid range drops to £/$200 it will be a good thing. Hopefully they'll support multi-GPU (can't see it happening but I can hope) so we may be able to get top level performance cheaper too. Nvidia have been able to take the **** with prices for far too long. At least Intel's pockets are deep enough to sustain the required level of investment and this will also give AMD a kick up the backside to up their game.
 
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Intel have their feet to the fire a bit after failing miserably in categories like 4G/5G Modems, Phone SoCs, IoT, etc... So they might now actually make a proper go of it to succeed in graphics.
 
Intel and nvidia are just going to agree on prices if the performance is even remotely similar. Let's not all get high Hope's thinking this will reduce prices. Most of you are willing to pay 2070 prices for the new range 1060 performer... so intel wont come in with amazing performance and charge almost nothing for it. They will charge exactly the same as nvidia.
 
D1craig said:
Intel and nvidia are just going to agree on prices if the performance is even remotely similar. Let's not all get high Hope's thinking this will reduce prices. Most of you are willing to pay 2070 prices for the new range 1060 performer... so intel wont come in with amazing performance and charge almost nothing for it. They will charge exactly the same as nvidia.
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Price fixing is highly illegal, they would be fools to go down that particular road. Intel especially, with all the fines they've been hit with in the last 20+ years!
 
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