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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Post by anticensor » Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 7:30 PM UTC

talldayo wrote: post #484

light_hue_1 wrote: post #424

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You're writing as if AMD cares about open source. If they would only actually open source their driver the community would have made their cards better than nvidia ones long ago. I'm one of those academics. You've got it all wrong. So many people care about open source. So many people carefully release their code and make everything reproducible. We desperately just want AMD to open up. They just refuse. There's noth…

> If they would only actually open source their driver the community would have made their cards better than nvidia ones long ago. Software wise, maybe. But you can't change AMD's hardware with a magic wand, and that's where a lot of CUDA's optimizations come from. AMD's GPU architecture is optimized for raster compute, and it's been that way for decades. I can assure you that AMD does not have a magic button to pres…

RDNA and UDNA have progressed more towards compute-unified architecture than Vega&CDNA's raster-first architecture.

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

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Post by lhl » Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 7:29 PM UTC

mrweasel wrote: post #619

hulitu wrote: post #207

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> These are $200 low end cards Hm, i wouldn't consider 200$ low end.

I was watching a few of the preliminary commentaries on the Battlemage cards, e.g. Linus Tech Tips and so on, and they said the same thing "focus on the low/mid-end". My conclusion is that what they are talking about is "low end, brand new, current gen. graphics card". It's a very special type of low end. The Intel cards are getting more interesting for me as I'm questioning my continued use of macOS. Intels focus on…

Although there are some less powerful cards (the Intel A310/A380s are available for ~$100 and would be fine as basic display adapters w/ good video engines) if you go lower end, modern iGPUs are generally good enough for anything below the $200 level, hence why enthusiast sites (focused on DIY) consider that "low end" these days.

The Radeon 780M on Ryzen APUs can power 1080P gaming, and output to 3-4 4K/8K displays (the latest Intel Xe iGPUs are about on par, but generally pricier). A Ryzen 5700G goes for about $150 (or a 5600G for closer to $100), or you can get entire Ryzen 7840HS minipcs w/ 32GB RAM for $400-500).

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