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Lunar Lake Xe2 appears to be 50% faster than Xe1. If that scales linearly to discrete GPUs that will put the B770 at around - maybe a bit more - than the performance of the RTX 4070 Ti (non Super). OCUK sell the 4070 Ti for about £740 (and the Super for £770), and we all know that price drops are coming later this year with the RTX 5000 series incoming. But it will also put the B770 at between the performance of the RX 7800XT and RX 7900 GRE, and the latter sells for £500, so I think Intel will have to price the B770 at around £400 if they launch in September.
This is more suited to the election thread but the economy works off the flow of money and taxes like VAT reduce that flow.
The 16 GB A770 is now on sale at a certain high street electrical store for £230 per r/IntelArc. @Gibbo, will you be matching this price?
If I were being optimistic I would suggest that this might be a clearing out of stock before the launch of Battlemage.
If I were being optimistic I would suggest that this might be a clearing out of stock before the launch of Battlemage.
Unless it's a stop-gap I would not recommend one for gaming right now. Performance comparisons with the 5700 seem t to be scant, but the A770 seems to perform a little better than the RX 5700 XT. I think you'll want something better to actually notice a decent improvement, though you will gain XeSS. And Battlemage is due soon - I'm expecting September (no evidence, just a gut feeling) - and the high end of the RTX 50 series is also due late this year. If the mobile versions of Battlemage are anything to go by we'll see a 50% improvement which will put the B770 in 4070 Ti territory, maybe higher.
I have not followed this issue.
I must have been looking at the wrong information.
The A770 is down to £230 if you know where to look. Maybe OCUK will price-match?
20% faster is on the cusp of noticeability; it really needs to be 30%+. Then there's Battlemage to consider. But if you need a card now the A770 has XeSS and AV1 so I'm edging on yes.
The OP's current card does not have those features.
More Battlemage rumours!
wccftech.com
videocardz.com
It's looking like an August or September launch to me. Hopefully the paper launch will be at Intel's event in late August with availability a few weeks later.
Intel Arc Battlemage X2 & X3 Graphics Cards Spotted: Up To 448 EUs & 256-bit Bus Interface
Intel's Arc Battlemage "X2" & "X3" graphics cards have been spotted featuring up to 56 Xe2 cores and a 256-bit bus interface.
wccftech.com
Intel confirms flagship Arc Battlemage "BMG-G31" graphics processor with 32 Xe2-Cores - VideoCardz.com
Intel Battlemage G21 and G31 Intel’s next-generation of discrete GPU series might feature two processors. Intel has confirmed the new GPU in the Battlemage series, codenamed G31. While this isn’t the first mention of such a GPU, this is no doubt the first time the company has listed the new GPU...
videocardz.com
It's looking like an August or September launch to me. Hopefully the paper launch will be at Intel's event in late August with availability a few weeks later.
Yes! VR looks like it's going to be supported by Battlemage:
Intel confirms flagship Arc Battlemage "BMG-G31" graphics processor with 32 Xe2-Cores - VideoCardz.com
Intel Battlemage G21 and G31 Intel’s next-generation of discrete GPU series might feature two processors. Intel has confirmed the new GPU in the Battlemage series, codenamed G31. While this isn’t the first mention of such a GPU, this is no doubt the first time the company has listed the new GPU...
videocardz.com
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I read one article that said that certain internal hardware structures had gone from 8 bit to 16 bit to better support Unreal Engine 5.
The A770 already approaches the 4060 so I'm looking for a good step up from that. Something like the performance of a 4070 Ti, maybe Super. But the key will be price. Battlemage will need to be significantly cheaper than Nvidia. A 4070 TI currently sells for ~£750 so for equivalent performance a Battlemage card released this year will need to be £500, because next year it will be competing with the 5060 Ti and those will be around £400 or even the 5060 at about £300, at which point Intel cuts the prices.
I do think people should look at the longer-term picture. Remember how Ryzen went from being interesting in the 1000 series to pretty solid in the 2000 series and encouraged people to take the risk of jumping ship and then stomped the competition in the 3000 series onwards.
I agree. They'll have to get up there sooner rather than later. Though I wouldn't call £500 ultra-budget.
For the enthusiast perhaps, but for the mainstream not really: it was too flakey. Untrustworthy.
You're being polite. And he spins 30 seconds of info out into 10 mins.
Don't forget that some of the internals have doubled so with a better process node and faster VRAM and having fixed all the issues they found with Alchemist an overall 100% performance improvement is not impossible. We shall have to wait and see.
New driver up. Reportedly addresses idle power issues.
www.intel.com
Also, new Vulcan layer:
github.com
Intel® Arc™ & Iris® Xe Graphics - Windows*
This download installs Intel® Graphics Driver 32.0.101.6078 for Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics, Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics, and Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors with Intel® Arc™ Graphics.
www.intel.com
Also, new Vulcan layer:
Release Version 2.4 · doitsujin/dxvk
D3D8 support D8VK is now part of DXVK, and implements D3D8 largely on top of the existing D3D9 implementation. Please refer to pull request #3411 for further details. Native WSI changes dxvk-native...
github.com