Results are a bit all over the place and that doesn't really tell anything about actual gaming performance but considering it's a 75W products, that doesn't look too bad.Initial benchmarks on 128 EU chip
Intel ARC (“Alchemist”) A380 GP-GPU Graphics – OpenCL Performance – SiSoftware
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75W product that shouldn't be worth more than $75 if GPU prices weren't crazy. It's overall a bit slower than 6500 XT and the bad drivers could make it worth much less.
Yet we are here
These gpu's needed to be released 4 months ago, not 4 months from now.
4 months from now, and people will start looking heavily at metrics instead of looking at "$" signs.
Results are a bit all over the place and that doesn't really tell anything about actual gaming performance but considering it's a 75W products, that doesn't look to bad.
By the way I don't expect prices to plummet. It'll probably drop over time but the authoritanism *cough* I mean lockdowns *cough* I mean covid and war threats are not going to help. In fact, it might be a drop for a bit and rise even further in the future years.
They wanted to launch it earlier but couldn't, because it's hard. If they release it now with immature hardware and drivers it'll be way worse.
why not wait another 6 months for huge increase in performance/$.
Yup. They could have created special mining rigs with DG1 GPUs. Large companies are so dumb.Could have sold it to miners.
Performance yes. Performance/$... maybe compared to current prices
Or there was enough production but lots of shrink wrapped unsold RDNA2 inventory that scalpers are hanging onto. Maybe more people are paying scalper prices for Nvidia GPUs than AMD GPUs.When I look at used-market here it's about 10:1 in terms of 3000series vs rdna2.
The war will only lower demand due to simply not shipping to Russia anymore and obviously their economic issues on top. I doubt that will really matter however.
You really belive that? stopping shipments during war time is very common, but it will resume after the war is over whiout telling anyone. Just like many, many others, they are doing that just to say they are doing something, but in the end that does not do anything.
Yup. They could have created special mining rigs with DG1 GPUs. Large companies are so dumb.
Of course compared to current prices. Even if they don't go down we will probably get 1.5x-1.7x performance increase per level. I don't see how they can hike prices further. People simply won't buy anymore.
While making very tiny bucks from console chips!EDIT: I also think AMD really low-balled GPU production. When I look at used-market here it's about 10:1 in terms of 3000series vs rdna2. I think NV basically had to supply the market almost alone and AMD was happy to just make big bucks from server cpus.
Another issue with further delay is that then RDNA3 and lovelace will be too close. so if you waited out the extreme prices why not wait another 6 months for huge increase in performance/$.
To be clear, the 3080's real price is like $1300-1400.Not talking about DG1. Talking about DG2. The idea that Intel is going to make big money on this is dead even without a real price decrease on nV/AMD cards.
To be clear, the 3080's real price is like $1300-1400. The $1300-1400 MSRP card could very well be 50-70% faster than the 3080; the $699 card won't be.
To be clear, the 3080's real price is like $1300-1400.
Can you expand on this?
To be clear, the 3080's real price is like $1300-1400.
Can you expand on this?
Several different sources have told me of another Intel card postponement, at least as far as SKU 1 to 3, the three performance models, are concerned. There are currently consistent rumors that the first models will be released between May 2, 2022 and June 1, 2022. Furthermore, the tape-out of the QS (qualified sample) should not take place for 1-2 weeks.