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The Intel Arc owners thread

Nvidia will be ok offering objectively worse cards at the £300 price point there's still plenty of sheeple out there who 8Gb just because it's a Geforce card but if I were AMD I would be concerned as this could potentially eat away at their entry level market share provided the software and drivers don't suck this time around.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Nvidia tax guarantees that wont happen. These new Intel cards seem OK, but I just wish they'd have released the higher end cards at the same time.
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It doesn't make sense to while they're making efforts to penetrate the market, but it is frustrating to see a complete lack of competition in the higher end because aMD seems unwilling, or unable to do so. Overall I think they're making the right play in appealing to System integrators by offering something low budget to simply slot into the budget PC market. Who knows? This might push AMD to spread their wings a little more after all.
 
eldergeek said:
Overall I think they're making the right play in appealing to System integrators by offering something low budget to simply slot into the budget PC market.
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The 4060/4060Ti market is where the volume is though (at least according to steam hardware surveys etc) - if they've managed to make this hardware at least slightly profitable then that's a win
(As opposed to maybe a higher end chip not being profitable at the price needed to compete)
 
Armageus said:
The 4060/4060Ti market is where the volume is though (at least according to steam hardware surveys etc) - if they've managed to make this hardware at least slightly profitable then that's a win
(As opposed to maybe a higher end chip not being profitable at the price needed to compete)
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I agree. At the end of the day, i'm sick and tired of prices being dictated by what is essentially a crapshoot over whether nvidia is feeling generous with the current generation; we need competition in the field and this could be great for that. I'm certainly tempted to pick up a battlemage graphics card to put together a build to keep my mother happy.
 
no_1_dave said:
The GPU inside Intel's CPUs can transcode multiple 4k plex streams with ease. There is no need for a dedicated GPU in a plex server.
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Ik that, but not all CPUs have integrated graphics. My 10YO Z97 has an Intel Xeon in it (no integrated graphics). And I don't have a spare GPU around to repupose for it. Hence why I asked.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
What are you basing your opinion on?
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Reality.

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Poneros said:
Reality.

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Ah, a guy on Reddit. Definitely the experience of every Arc user (it's not).
Leaving Windows to manage driver updates, failing to turn off notifications, actually installing driver support assistant rather than not doing that. I'm pretty sure I can find many more noob complaint posts about nvidia/amd, and they are also not to be paid much attention to.

It's well known that Alchemist has some design flaws, which will not be present in Battlemage.
 
Poneros said:
Reality.
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random reddit user said:
  1. Microsoft's Windows Update often (randomly?, triggered by what?) overwrites the correct, up-to-date Arc drivers I intend to keep installed with ones that are months out of date. Why can't Intel and Microsoft get into a room and sort this out? Why doesn't Intel ship the latest drivers to Microsoft for distribution via Windows Update? Why does windows update overwrite bigger number version drivers with ones that have smaller version numbers? Why doesn't intel's driver update tool set some registry flag that blacklists windows update from updating the drivers for the pci ids that intel's update tool manages? Do AMD and nvidia get around this windows update contention issue? If so, how do they do it?
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I've had that happen on several occasions with AMD drivers - it's not an Intel ARC specific problem - that is a Microsoft/Windows problem.


Poneros said:
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How old are those benchmarks?
 
My 8GB card still copes pretty well tbh, but yeah I agree I wouldn't buy a 8GB card now. Sometimes my VRAM usage is 100% - assasins creed is one - but I don't notice any fps drops. Pretty daft a card from 2016? has same amount of RAM as modern £400? GPU's
 
New driver has arrived : 32.0.101.6314 WHQL
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Intel Arc GPU Graphics Driver 101.6314 WHQL Released

Intel today released the latest version of its Arc GPU Graphics Drivers. Version 101.6314 WHQL don't seem to include support for Arc "Battlemage" B500 series GPUs yet (which will probably go live with the product availability). There's no Game On game-optimization payload, either. The release...
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