How does it compare to an RTX 5060 ti with 16 gigabytes of VRAM?
Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
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#32The new CEO of Intel has said that Intel is giving up competing with Nvidia. Why would you bother with any Intel product with an attitude like that, gives zero confidence in the company. What business is Intel in, if not competing with Nvidia and AMD. Is it giving up competing with AMD too?
NVIDIA cards are unironically over $3,500 at the store in some cases...
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#33With the power being 70W from the connector only, how feasible is it to have 3 per server and have effectively 48GB VRAM for tasks?
Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#34The new CEO of Intel has said that Intel is giving up competing with Nvidia. Why would you bother with any Intel product with an attitude like that, gives zero confidence in the company. What business is Intel in, if not competing with Nvidia and AMD. Is it giving up competing with AMD too?
AMD has also often said that they can't compete with Nvidia at the high end, and as the other commenter said: market segments exist. Not everyone needs a 5090. If anything, people are starved for options in the budget/mid-range market, which is where Intel could pick up a solid chunk of market share.
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#35With the power being 70W from the connector only, how feasible is it to have 3 per server and have effectively 48GB VRAM for tasks?
I think the answer to that right now is highly workload dependent. From what I have seen, it is improving rapidly, but still very early days for the software stack compared to Nvidia
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#36Not bad with 16 GB VRAM, a bit disappointing on performance though, looking at the Blender 3D (open source) benchmarks: https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=... It clocks in at 1503.4 samples per second, behind the NVidia RTX 2060 (1590.93 samples / sec, released Jan 2019), AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT (1539, May 2022), and Apple M3 Pro GPU 14 cores (1651.85, Oct 2023). Note that this perf comparison…
It wouldn't surprise me if there was 10-20% perf improvement in drivers/software for this. Intel's architecture is pretty new and nothing is optimized for it yet.
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#37Huh, 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
I don't know how big the impact really is, but Intel is pretty far behind on encoder quality mostly. Oh wait, on most codecs they are pretty far behind, but av1 they seem pretty competitive? Neat.
Apologies for the video link. But a recent pretty in depth comparison: https://youtu.be/kkf7q4L5xl8
Re: Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations
#38With the power being 70W from the connector only, how feasible is it to have 3 per server and have effectively 48GB VRAM for tasks?
You're probably better off with the incoming B60 which has 24GB vram.
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#39With the power being 70W from the connector only, how feasible is it to have 3 per server and have effectively 48GB VRAM for tasks?
You're probably better off with the incoming B60 which has 24GB vram.
There’s a 48GB B60 already [1] but it’s definitely a significant amount more than 3X B50 pro (you obviously get way better performance).
[1] https://www.maxsun.com/products/intel-arc-pro-b60-dual-48g-t...
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#40Not bad with 16 GB VRAM, a bit disappointing on performance though, looking at the Blender 3D (open source) benchmarks: https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=... It clocks in at 1503.4 samples per second, behind the NVidia RTX 2060 (1590.93 samples / sec, released Jan 2019), AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT (1539, May 2022), and Apple M3 Pro GPU 14 cores (1651.85, Oct 2023). Note that this perf comparison…
Is that a comparison of the raytracing fixed function hardware for the various GPUs, or is it a GPGPU comparison?