A December launch is on the cards.
Honestly, I was just waiting for them to flop so that I could buy some cheap cards for hardware encoding on my jellyfin server. I don’t want to buy a $500+ GPU just for transcoding, and the AV1 support was really nice.
If their drivers and stuff for Battlemage turn out to be half decent, I might get one for my wife’s computer, as she’s still on a 1660 Super
If AV1 encoding is your goal, just pick up a few A310 and you are good to go. They are around ~$100. Same performance as latest $1000+ GPUs.
I’m really looking forward to these cards to see how much they’ve improved upon the first generation though Intel execs saying they might drop out of the GPU market altogether doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence. I hope they will at least keep supporting these for the years to come.
As long as they can keep costs down on battlemage and it’s reasonably well performing then I doubt they’re dropping GPUs any time soon. They made a die bigger than a 3070, but charged half the price. I don’t think they even could make money on alchemist if they tried. Plus they can glom it onto their CPUs and make them compete with AMD’s APUs and open up a whole new market segment for them.
Why would I choose an Intel GPU over Nvidia or AMD? I’m not being snarky, I’m genuinely curious. I don’t really know anything about them. Additionally, do they play nice with Linux?
I bought an Intel GPU for my media server: I got a killer deal for an AMD CPU that didn’t have integrated graphics. I just needed a little something for transcodes, and I wanted:
- AV1 support
- kernel modules that ship by default with most distros
- low power consumption
- small size
Turns out that the Intel ARC A380 was a relatively affordable GPU that filled all those needs. Using Ubuntu server, it worked out of the box.
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Currently? Nothing at all. But Nvidia doesn’t really make a midrange GPU, and AMD’s midrange offerings just kinda suck, and their low end stuff is even worse. Intel is currently filling that low-midrange niche. Or at least trying to.
Plus if battlemage is actually decent then AMD and maybe Nvidia will have to respond and make something that doesn’t suck ass.
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