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The Intel Arc owners thread

Arc Pro A60 looks like it could be a decent budget card - double the specs of the A380 (12GB RAM), single slot blower style cooler, supposedly $130, so probably £179-£199 over here.
Should slot in somewhere near a GTX1660 or RTX 3050


Appreciate Intel's attempt at reviving the 8800 GT for the modern age.
 
Arc A750 vs Radeon RX 7600


TLDW: the A750 holds up quite well. The RX 7600 modestly beats the A750 in raster but the A750 is ahead in RT.
 
Battlemage rumours!


Rumoured specs at 8:07

TLDW: launches early 2024 with RTX 4080 gaming performance, and better than 4080 compute performance.
 
^^ "Nvidia reportedly pressures partners to stop them building next-gen Intel Battlemage GPUs"


The ironic thing is that Intel probably won't do anything about it, unless they reference:

In the court filings Intel just has to reference their own case that they lost to AMD back in 2005 for doing basically the exact same thing.

Lols.

Intel do have a solid chance here though with at least 6 months of a lead, RTX 4080 performance for considerably lower pricem with AV1 transcoding, with RT performance to match, with a better upscaler than AMD.... This could be what puts them on the high end gaming map for dGPUs since neither AMD nor Nvidia have anything in the intel price range that can satisfy gamers with price to performance ratios that align.
 
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We should all be welcoming it. Especially if they get a jump on the duopoly in good time I imaging it will accelerate refreshes or needed price cuts to that higher end segment.
 
^^ "Nvidia reportedly pressures partners to stop them building next-gen Intel Battlemage GPUs"


The ironic thing is that Intel probably won't do anything about it, unless they reference:
I mean, I don't really care about Intel being screwed over, but I do care about Nvidia continuing to make the graphics market a terrible place.
Given how poorly Nvidia's current mid-range efforts have been received, maybe some partners could stand to make more money just focusing on Intel/AMD cards.
 
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Much like the mindshare gamers then when they want the competition to be there but still buy nvidia anyway and wonder why the status quo exists. :cry:
 
Can these cards play dx9 games and older stuff too? Or limited to dx11 and 12?

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?
 
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