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The Intel Arc owners thread

Emlyn_Dewar said:
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.
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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.

Emlyn_Dewar said:
but I think Intel fired all the people who could make the software experience any good.
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I've not heard of firings.
 
You won’t be running the latest models at the real speeds the cards should be capable of. :D 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!
 
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So the B770 finally rears it's head in the form of a professional card for power users. I can see why at $900 a piece I can see why Intel has gone this route but give it a couple of years and these things will be super cheap on the 2nd market.
 
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Intel has an official Docker-based vLLM stack called llm-scaler, specifically built for the Arc Pro B-series. The release notes looked great. The Docker image is 20+ GB. I pulled it with the confidence of someone who has no idea what they're about to get into.
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Someone in a forum mentioned that Vulkan was significantly faster than SYCL on Arc B-series anyway.
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Things that surprised me (as someone who had no idea what they were doing)
The built-in web UI is genuinely nice. I had been curl-ing the API like a caveman for hours before someone told me to just open a browser. There is a full chat interface at localhost:8181. I felt silly.
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When I asked Claude to write this post at the end of the night, I asked it to write it as its own recollection of the weekend. Which means this is technically an AI writing about helping a human use AI to run AI locally on hardware made by a company whose AI stack didn't work, fixed by a different AI framework. We're deep in it now.
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