I have to admit, I have a hard time understanding why consumers should be expected to take Intel’s foray into dedicated GPUs seriously when Intel itself doesn’t seem to want to support it directly.
Intel's ARC GPUs are very nice for Blender 3D GPU Accelerated Cycles rendering, and that's just using the shader cores only code path currently on the ARC A770 or A750 GPUs because the ARC RT hardware is not yet fully supported by Blender 3D currently. Also Intel's OneAPI is easier to get installed and working properly on Linux OS based systems whereas AMD's ROCm/HIP is not easy to get installed and working properly even on the Limited Linux Workstation Distros that AMD officially supports for ROCm/HIP.
So hopefully the Intel ARC Card Partners will still be offering some 16GB ARC A770 variants as the more VRAM the better for Blender GPU accelerated Cycles rendering workloads and ARC is a lot less expensive for Blender 3D rendering on Linux as Nvidia's been the only choice on Linux owing to the poor AMD Linux ROCm/HIP support on Linux that only goes back as far as Vega GPUs now currently and AMD's looking at maybe only supporting ROCm/HIP for RDNA/later GPU for any future ROCm/HIP releases.
Intel's got loads of Matrix Math units that support AI so look at all the Pro Graphics software packages like Photoshop and see that AI based Filtering/Denoising and AI Image processing is very popular there for things like background removal, sans any Chroma-Key Green Background setup required there for video and single image production workloads.
Intel's ARC GPUs may not be as polished for Gaming workloads but for Graphics workloads they are nice and very low cost there and Blender 3D will happily Cycles render across Multiple ARC GPUs on any system that's got the PCIe slots for that render farm usage there.
If anything this supports AIB vendors selling their own higher-end products. I don't see it as a problem. Intel probably never really wanted to be a vendor of their own cards.
One thing Intel's been doing a good job with is getting new drivers out. The Acer card looks pretty slick and Intel seems to be focused on getting bugs out and increasing performance.
Gotta admit that is an oddly worded thought, but I think we have to be a bit forgiving because Anton's first language isn't English IIRC so the fact that there are minor glitches in assembling a thought might be overlooked.
This isn't surprising at all. Intel is a company of margins. They probably make more money selling the GPU's than the boards, because they have to support the boards. This is the same reason they exited the consumer SSD market they essentially created: once they made their footprint, their job was done.
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chaos215bar2 - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
I have to admit, I have a hard time understanding why consumers should be expected to take Intel’s foray into dedicated GPUs seriously when Intel itself doesn’t seem to want to support it directly.meacupla - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
I guess we finally know why they called it the Limited Edition.FWhitTrampoline - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
Intel's ARC GPUs are very nice for Blender 3D GPU Accelerated Cycles rendering, and that's just using the shader cores only code path currently on the ARC A770 or A750 GPUs because the ARC RT hardware is not yet fully supported by Blender 3D currently. Also Intel's OneAPI is easier to get installed and working properly on Linux OS based systems whereas AMD's ROCm/HIP is not easy to get installed and working properly even on the Limited Linux Workstation Distros that AMD officially supports for ROCm/HIP.So hopefully the Intel ARC Card Partners will still be offering some 16GB ARC A770 variants as the more VRAM the better for Blender GPU accelerated Cycles rendering workloads and ARC is a lot less expensive for Blender 3D rendering on Linux as Nvidia's been the only choice on Linux owing to the poor AMD Linux ROCm/HIP support on Linux that only goes back as far as Vega GPUs now currently and AMD's looking at maybe only supporting ROCm/HIP for RDNA/later GPU for any future ROCm/HIP releases.
Intel's got loads of Matrix Math units that support AI so look at all the Pro Graphics software packages like Photoshop and see that AI based Filtering/Denoising and AI Image processing is very popular there for things like background removal, sans any Chroma-Key Green Background setup required there for video and single image production workloads.
Intel's ARC GPUs may not be as polished for Gaming workloads but for Graphics workloads they are nice and very low cost there and Blender 3D will happily Cycles render across Multiple ARC GPUs on any system that's got the PCIe slots for that render farm usage there.
sheh - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
I don't if much could be inferred from this.Chip makers generally sell chips, not complete products. That's what AIBs are for.
GreenReaper - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
If anything this supports AIB vendors selling their own higher-end products. I don't see it as a problem. Intel probably never really wanted to be a vendor of their own cards.QueBert - Saturday, June 24, 2023 - link
One thing Intel's been doing a good job with is getting new drivers out. The Acer card looks pretty slick and Intel seems to be focused on getting bugs out and increasing performance.Gigaplex - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
"In a rather unexpected move, Intel this week discontinued its Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card"How is this unexpected? Limited edition means limited.
boozed - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
Mindboggling stuff!PeachNCream - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
Gotta admit that is an oddly worded thought, but I think we have to be a bit forgiving because Anton's first language isn't English IIRC so the fact that there are minor glitches in assembling a thought might be overlooked.Samus - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
This isn't surprising at all. Intel is a company of margins. They probably make more money selling the GPU's than the boards, because they have to support the boards. This is the same reason they exited the consumer SSD market they essentially created: once they made their footprint, their job was done.blzd - Saturday, June 24, 2023 - link
Not surprising considering the price drops and fire sales Intel Arc have been on, Intel must not even be breaking even selling at those prices.