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The Intel Arc owners thread

lovelyhead said:
Can anyone tell me why I should get a B580 over the 8GB 9060XT as they are both the same price and benchmarks suggest the 9060XT is quite a bit faster?
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The B580 is slower but has more VRAM. The 9060 XT 16 GB is indeed much faster (30%+) but costs £100 more. The 8 GB 9060 XT is also much faster until it runs out of VRAM. The question is if the B580 is good enough or your games do not use 8 GB VRAM.
 
Apparently Battlemage really benefits from Shader Execution Reordering - 90% improvement in tests, but details are light.

devblogs.microsoft.com

D3D12 Shader Execution Reordering - DirectX Developer Blog

Now officially released, Shader Execution Reordering (SER) is an addition to DirectX Raytracing that enables application shader code inform hardware how to find coherency across rays so they can be sorted to execute better in parallel. SER support is a required feature in Shader Model 6.9...
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Using SER with the settings below running on an NVIDIA RTX 4090 showed a 40% framerate increase versus not using SER, and a couple of configurations of Intel Arc B-Series GPUs each showed a 90% framerate increase.
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The Intel Arc B50 arrived last week, and I've only just got around to getting it installed in the MS02-Ultra. It's a tiny little card, and most importantly, SR-IOV works in Proxmox oddly; it doesn't work in VMware, but the iGPU (ARC) does, but that's probably a VMware driver thing.

So I can now spin up with my Docker containers with dGPU where required.

I'll pop some pictures up a bit later
 
Intel ARC B50

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Quartz said:
I've just seen on Reddit that the latest beta of Plex now works with Battlemage.
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Jellyfin is also supported.

I have found one quirk with the card, as driver gfx_win_101.6979 (Q3.25) also contains a firmware update for the card, which enables the SR-IOV feature.

www.intel.com

Intel® Arc™ Pro Graphics - Windows*

This download installs Intel® Graphics Driver 32.0.101.8314 for Intel® Arc™ Pro Series Graphics and select Intel® Core™ Ultra H-series Processors with Intel® Arc™ Pro Graphics.
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I've been using my integrated Arc on a 165H engineering sample quite a lot recently, as it's now in the TV PC. It's restricted to only 1800MHz max GPU clock unfortunately, but performance is still great for what I've been playing.
I have a slot for a low-profile GPU though... The B50 is very tempting.
 
@RSR I've seen three different times now, about people complaining their B50 has the plastic left on the backplate memory thermal pads.
Might be worth having a look at yours.
 
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