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The Intel Arc owners thread

Battlemage rumours!


Rumoured specs at 8:07

TLDW: launches early 2024 with RTX 4080 gaming performance, and better than 4080 compute performance.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Can these cards play dx9 games and older stuff too? Or limited to dx11 and 12?
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The original Far Cry runs fine. DX 12 has been their priority but they've been making great progress with older versions. Did you have a particular game in mind?
 
gpuerrilla said:
Have you tried to DM or tag Steve in a tweet? If your a patreon member your chances would be very high.
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I've seen the issue raised in comments and go unanswered. I have already asked by Tweet and it has gone unanswered. The integrity of the team is unquestionable, but by ignoring Arc the usefulness - and thus value - of their work is significantly diminished.
 
Some Arc news for the interested.

Early Arc cards have a security flaw.

www.tomshardware.com

Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs Have Hidden Security Flaws

Affecting Arc A770 and A750 GPUs sold between October and December 2022.
www.tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com

As an owner of one of these cards I'm not worried. Apparently it requires local access, and the card is only on a test system.

Intel have released a new XeSS SDK, version 1.2

videocardz.com

Intel releases XeSS 1.2 SDK, the key binary still not open-source - VideoCardz.com

XeSS 1.2 out now Intel has a new XeSS version now available for game developers. Intel is not slowing down with the development of their temporal upscaling technology, known as XeSS. The newest version was just released with the latest SDK (Software Development Kit) with an updated libxess.dll...
videocardz.com videocardz.com

Intel is working on Battlemage

videocardz.com

Intel lists testing interposers for Next-Gen Xe2 "Battlemage" GPUs and Core Ultra "Arrow Lake-HX" CPUs - VideoCardz.com

Intel preparing next-gen GPUs and CPUs for testing Battlemage, Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake. Intel has recently made updates to its website to include information about the interposers for testing purposes. On a dedicated webpage, the company showcases the components employed by various tools...
videocardz.com videocardz.com
 
A test of the latest driver:


TLDW: where Intel's drivers show massive improvements are the 1% and 0.1% lows but there are modest boosts to average framerates too. And The Witcher is no longer broken.
 
Sparkle are now manufacturing 16GB A770 cards, calling them Titans

videocardz.com

Sparkle confirms Arc A770 TITAN graphics card will feature 16GB memory - VideoCardz.com

Sparkle A770 GPU features 16GB memory Sparkle is rapidly establishing itself as a major partner for Intel’s Arc GPUs. Intel consistently highlights Sparkle in its Arc-related updates, underscoring the significance of their choice as a GPU supplier. It’s worth noting that Sparkle had withdrawn...
videocardz.com videocardz.com
 
Puget Systems have an interesting article on the productivity side of Arc:

www.pugetsystems.com

Intel Arc A770 and A750 Content Creation Review (Sept. 2023 Update)

The Intel Arc Alchemist A770 and A750 launched 11 months ago. How have the Intel Arc A770 and A750 improved for content creation applications since then?
www.pugetsystems.com www.pugetsystems.com

TLDR: 40% improvement in Da Vinci Resolve, now on a par with the RTX 3060 and 4060.
 
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