The Intel Arc owners thread

[Quartz]

I can’t help but feel a lot of people are going to be disappointed by their B70s, unless Intel pull their finger out and get *much* better support sorted out.

I'm not so sure: Intel have their Battlematrix software which combines cards and apparently the price / performance metric is pretty good. But AI isn't my thing so I just don't know. I do agree that Intel are going to have to put the effort in, simply because they're not Nvidia.

but I think Intel fired all the people who could make the software experience any good.

I've not heard of firings.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

You won’t be running the latest models at the real speeds the cards should be capable of. They need to pull their finger out.
It’s important when it comes to these cards as it’s basically their whole reason for existing. Took quite some time for them to even get Qwen 3.5 in their VLLM build.

Layoffs is one of the biggest things Intel has been know for over the last 2 or 3 years. Pretty safe bet it’s partially to blame for their lacking support in this area.
The B70 is definitely selling well everywhere though, so hopefully we’ll things start to change!