Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
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Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#2What about the B60, with the 24GB VRAM?
Also, do these support SR-IOV, as in handing slices of the GPU to virtual machines?
Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#3A $350 “workstation” GPU with 16 GB of VRAM? I... guess, but is that really enough for the kinds of things that would have you looking for workstation-level GPUs in the first place?
Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#4What about the B60, with the 24GB VRAM? Also, do these support SR-IOV, as in handing slices of the GPU to virtual machines?
SR-IOV is allegedly coming in the future (just like the b60).
Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#5It’s interesting that it uses 4 Display Ports and not a single HDMI.
Is HDMI seen as a “gaming” feature, or is DP seen as a “workstation” interface? Ultimately HDMI is a brand that commands higher royalties than DP, so I suspect this decision was largely chosen to minimize costs. I wonder what percentage of the target audience has HDMI only displays.
Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#6Huh, I didn't realize these were just released, I came across it looking for a GPU that had AV1 hardware encoding and been putting a shopping cart together for a mini-ITX xeon server for all my ffmpeg shenanigans.
I like to Buy American when I can but it's hard to find out which fabs various CPUs and GPUs are made in. I read Kingston does some RAM here and Crucial some SSDs. Maybe the silicon is fabbed here but everything I found is "assembled in Taiwan", which made me feel like I should get my dream machine sooner rather than later
Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#7It’s interesting that it uses 4 Display Ports and not a single HDMI. Is HDMI seen as a “gaming” feature, or is DP seen as a “workstation” interface? Ultimately HDMI is a brand that commands higher royalties than DP, so I suspect this decision was largely chosen to minimize costs. I wonder what percentage of the target audience has HDMI only displays.
HDMI requires paying license fees. DP is an open standard.
Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#8Huh, I didn't realize these were just released, I came across it looking for a GPU that had AV1 hardware encoding and been putting a shopping cart together for a mini-ITX xeon server for all my ffmpeg shenanigans. I like to Buy American when I can but it's hard to find out which fabs various CPUs and GPUs are made in. I read Kingston does some RAM here and Crucial some SSDs. Maybe the silicon is fabbed here but every…
If you don't need it for AI shenanigans then you're better off with the smaller arcs for under a 100...they can do av1 too
Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#9It’s interesting that it uses 4 Display Ports and not a single HDMI. Is HDMI seen as a “gaming” feature, or is DP seen as a “workstation” interface? Ultimately HDMI is a brand that commands higher royalties than DP, so I suspect this decision was largely chosen to minimize costs. I wonder what percentage of the target audience has HDMI only displays.
4x Mini DP is common for low profile workstation cards, see the Quadro P1000, T1000, Radeon Pro WX 4100, etc.
Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#10It’s interesting that it uses 4 Display Ports and not a single HDMI. Is HDMI seen as a “gaming” feature, or is DP seen as a “workstation” interface? Ultimately HDMI is a brand that commands higher royalties than DP, so I suspect this decision was largely chosen to minimize costs. I wonder what percentage of the target audience has HDMI only displays.
The latest DP standard has higher bandwidth and can support higher framerates at the same resolution.