Monday, August 15th 2022
Flagship Intel Arc A770 GPU Showcased in Blender with Ray Tracing and Live Denoising
Intel Arc Alchemist graphics cards span both gamer and creator/professional user market sector, where we witnessed Intel announce gamer and pro-vis GPU SKUs. Today, we are seeing the usage of the flagship Arc Alchemist SKU called A770 in Blender rendering with ray tracing enabled. The GPU is designed to have a DG2-512 GPU with 512 EUs, 4096 Shading Units, 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, and 32 Xe cores for ray tracing, be a powerhouse for games, and handle some professional software as well. At SIGGRAPH 2022, Bob Duffy, Intel's Director of Graphics Community Engagement, showcased a system with Arc A770 GPU running Blender Cycles with ray tracing and denoising.
While we don't have any comparable data to showcase, the system managed to produce a decent rendering in Blender 3.3 LTS release, using Intel's oneAPI. The demo scene had 4,369,466 vertices, 8,702,031 edges, 4,349,606 faces, and 8,682,950 triangles, backed by ray tracing and live denoising. We are yet to see more detailed benchmarks and how the GPU fares against the competition.
Source:
Bob Duffy (Twitter)
While we don't have any comparable data to showcase, the system managed to produce a decent rendering in Blender 3.3 LTS release, using Intel's oneAPI. The demo scene had 4,369,466 vertices, 8,702,031 edges, 4,349,606 faces, and 8,682,950 triangles, backed by ray tracing and live denoising. We are yet to see more detailed benchmarks and how the GPU fares against the competition.
29 Comments on Flagship Intel Arc A770 GPU Showcased in Blender with Ray Tracing and Live Denoising
Reminds me of the scene from Ocean's Thirteen when they talked about what's a soft opening. This is the softest launch of the product I have ever seen. It might launch so slowly it gets cancelled while launching.
Also am I getting this right? did they make their own test to show this off? this is not some benchmark that is available anywhere so we could see what the competition does under the same settings?
If so, again.....not that confidence was high....but this really does not help.....could have just ran the 3Dmark RT benchmark but no...because they have somethign to hide?
I'm prolly gonna get one, just to say I have one.
Seriously tho, they are even failing at the PR. This is the build up you do when a launch is imminent, and Intel is that scattered Im not sure even they know when its launching.
I joked earlier in the year that they will only have 10 minutes before they face competition from a new gen. Then delays were announced and I sorta joked that maybe my first joke wasnt that much of a joke.... Now, they are going to wish they had 10 minutes to try sell this thing before a new gen shows up!
They can't say that nvidia would sue them :laugh:
I may consider getting one if i can find one, this will never release and in a couple of years is a collectors item. Never released ultra rare Arc GPU, 15.000€
Why don't you fulfill the prizes promised in the Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt ?
Soonish, we'll find Raja leaving Intel to go work somewhere like Apple or Qualcomm to help them "improve" their GPU the same way he helped AMD and Intel "improve" theirs.
Raja will return.
not sure why this is getting delayed - maybe they arent able to get any stable drivers or something or something.
And now they don't support native DX9 in any dGPU and now iGPU as well :) ..... Raja! Raja is living in a bubble.$3.5bn put in $500m in loss :).
Quality of hiring and product is bad in intel it seems :)Intel is new form of uncertainty
this was just the first result, i'm sure there are more. I Know some voodoos go for a lot to, especially the unrelease ones like the 6000