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Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

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Re: Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

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I put an a360 Card into an old machine I turned into a plex server. It turned it into a transcoding powerhouse. I can do multiple indepdent streams now without it skipping a beat. Price-performance ratio was off the chart

My 7950X3Ds GPU does 4k HDR (33Mb/s) to 1080p at 40fps (proxmox, jellyfin). If these GPUs would support SR-IOV I would grab one for transcoding and GPU accelerated remote desktop.

Untouched video (star wars 8) 4k HDR (60Mb/s) to 1080p at 28fps

Re: Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

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Why don't they just release a basic GPU with 128GB RAM and eat NVidia's local generative AI lunch? The networking effect of all devs porting their LLMs etc. to that card would instantly put them as a major CUDA threat. But beancounters running the company would never get such an idea...

48 GB is at the tail end of what's reasonale for normal GPUs. The IO requires a lot of die space. And intel's architecture is not very space efficient right now compared to nvidia's

Re: Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

#43
post #9

I put an a360 Card into an old machine I turned into a plex server. It turned it into a transcoding powerhouse. I can do multiple indepdent streams now without it skipping a beat. Price-performance ratio was off the chart

Intel has been a beast at transcoding for years, it’s a relatively niche application though.

Re: Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

#44

Why don't they just release a basic GPU with 128GB RAM and eat NVidia's local generative AI lunch? The networking effect of all devs porting their LLMs etc. to that card would instantly put them as a major CUDA threat. But beancounters running the company would never get such an idea...

Who manufactures the type of RAM and can they buy enough capacity? I know nVidia bought up the high bandwidth memory supply for years to come.

Re: Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

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I put an a360 Card into an old machine I turned into a plex server. It turned it into a transcoding powerhouse. I can do multiple indepdent streams now without it skipping a beat. Price-performance ratio was off the chart

How's the Linux compatibility? I was tempted to do the same for my CentOS Stream Plex box.

Re: Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're going in alphabetical order: A - Alchemist B - Battlemage C - Celestial (Future gen) D - Druid (Future gen)

Yes, I understand that. I'm saying it doesn't read as easily IMO as (modern) NVIDIA/AMD model numbers. Most numbers I deal with are base-10, not base-36.

The naming scheme they are using is easier to parse for me so all in the eye of the beholder.

Re: Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're going in alphabetical order: A - Alchemist B - Battlemage C - Celestial (Future gen) D - Druid (Future gen)

Yes, I understand that. I'm saying it doesn't read as easily IMO as (modern) NVIDIA/AMD model numbers. Most numbers I deal with are base-10, not base-36.

You aren’t using excel or sheets I see?

Re: Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

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Intel can't compete head to head with Nvidia on performance.

But surely it's easy enough to compete on video ram - why not load their GPUs to the max with video ram?

And also video encoder cores - Intel has a great video encoder core and these vary little across high end to low end GPUs - so they could make it a standout feature to have, for example, 8 video encoder cores instead of 2.

It's no wonder Nvidia is the king because AMD and Intel just don't seem willing to fight.

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