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Fortunately, having their Linux drivers be (mostly?) open source makes a purchase seem less risky.
> Intel with their Windows benchmarks are promoting the Arc B580 as being 24% faster than the Intel Arc A750 Not a huge fan of the numbering system they've used. B > A doesn't parse as easily as 5xxx > 4xxx to me.
Bit disappointed there's no 16gig(or more) version. But absolutely thrilled the rumours of Intel discrete graphics' demise were wildly exaggerated(looking at you, Moore's Law is Dead...). Very happy with my A770. Godsend for people like me who want plenty VRAM to play with neural nets, but don't have the money for workstation GPUs or massively overpriced Nvidia flagships. Works painlessly with linux, gaming performan…
have you tested llama.cpp with this card on Linux? when i tested about a year ago, it was a nightmare.
For power, it's 190W compared to 4060's 115 W.
EDIT: from [1]: B580 has 21.7 billion transistors at 406 mm² die area, compared to 4060's 18.9 billion and 146 mm². That's a big die.
How was driver support for their A-series?
I'm really curious to see if these still rely heavily on resizable BAR. Putting these in old computers in linux without reBAR support makes the driver crash with literally any load rendering the cards completely unusable. It's a real shame, the single slot a380 is a great performance for price light gaming and general use card for small machines.
What is the newest platform that lacks resizable BAR? It was standardized in 2006. Is 4060-level graphics performance useful in whatever old computer has that problem?
Coffee Lake also didn't really support ReBAR either, also 2018.
I'm really curious to see if these still rely heavily on resizable BAR. Putting these in old computers in linux without reBAR support makes the driver crash with literally any load rendering the cards completely unusable. It's a real shame, the single slot a380 is a great performance for price light gaming and general use card for small machines.
What is the newest platform that lacks resizable BAR? It was standardized in 2006. Is 4060-level graphics performance useful in whatever old computer has that problem?
Also, I don't think you'll find many mainboards from 2006 supporting it. It may have been standardized in 2006, but a quick online search leads me to think that even on x86 mainboards it didn't become commonly available until at least 2020.
> Intel with their Windows benchmarks are promoting the Arc B580 as being 24% faster than the Intel Arc A750 Not a huge fan of the numbering system they've used. B > A doesn't parse as easily as 5xxx > 4xxx to me.
They're going in alphabetical order: A - Alchemist B - Battlemage C - Celestial (Future gen) D - Druid (Future gen)