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Intel Arc Alchemist Graphics Card Lineup Detailed

TheoneandonlyMrK said:
Who do you suppose I as a reader think is biased now.

Crack on G who just said vapour ware is vapourware, correctly.

Or you two making the us v them point so un-eloquently.

Bring it Intel , show the world, asap.
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As long as it comes with a blue PCB and/or blue cooler or no dice. ;)
 
mazzilla said:
Intel's drivers in the past have been, how can I be diplomatic, erm, oh yeah, rubbish. If these cards do have the *alleged* equivalance of Nvidia and AMD cards then they should be good, that is with the caveat of availablity at a more normal (whatever that is) price and drivers that dont suck. I am old enough to remember their last discreet GPU attempt, that thing was crap and the drivers made it worse and yes, I know it was back in the 1890s.
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With the amount of money Intel has thrown at their dGPU division...I can't see them releasing a product with broken drivers. The ridicule would be crippling to the ego's of the top brass.
A decent product can only be good news for the consumer...especially if their deep pockets can undercut AMD and Nvidia by a margin.
I'm looking forward to the mayhem....
 
The A380 name has already been taken.
 
It will be good for every one, Intel have the best open source drivers with linux and Nvidia the best closed source.
On Windows its a bit different but a change Nvidia have the best and Intel is on 2nd.

AMD is out of anything, the drivers on Linux and on windows are garbage,
maybe the steamdeck will push them a little bit but i dont think so, AMD will only push the drivers for the IGP.
 
trsttte said:
Nope, plenty of cards in 32bit multiples even before GDDR6
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Well, not exactly plenty, since GDDR based GPUs, if we exclude GDDR6 like i mentioned, according to TPU database, for 32bit we had only cut down Nvidia G72 (GDDR3) which i think is wrong reporting, it's just plain DDR3 , for 96bit only cut down Nvidia GP107 (GDDR5) which for all i know it could be 128bit with mixed memories capacities and Nvidia drivers reporting whatever (although official specs suggest 96bit bus) check the GURU3D review, is it 3 memory chips, or 4 memory chips with the one upside down? i couldn't tell, probably 3)
www.guru3d.com

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB review (Page 3)

Nvidia recently released a new entry-level SKU into the market, a GeForce GTX 1050 with 3GB graphics memory. In this review, we'll confirm if this product really is a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, with less m...
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and finally for 160bit only cut down Nvidia GP106 (GDDR5) but again it could just be 192bit with mixed capacities (I couldn't find any 5GB PCB photo) Of course my impression could be wrong since Nvidia chips is like a black box and maybe since pascal generation they had a way to disable one memory 32bit channel somehow, but in any case, we are talking for only 2 Nvidia models for all the GDDR era , so not exactly plenty....
 
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ModEl4 said:
Well, not exactly plenty, since GDDR based GPUs, if we exclude GDDR6 like i mentioned, according to TPU database, for 32bit we had only cut down Nvidia G72 (GDDR3) which i think is wrong reporting, it's just plain DDR3 , for 96bit only cut down Nvidia GP107 (GDDR5) which for all i know it could be 128bit with mixed memories capacities and Nvidia drivers reporting whatever (although official specs suggest 96bit bus) check the GURU3D review, is it 3 memory chips, or 4 memory chips with the one upside down? i couldn't tell, probably 3)
www.guru3d.com

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB review (Page 3)

Nvidia recently released a new entry-level SKU into the market, a GeForce GTX 1050 with 3GB graphics memory. In this review, we'll confirm if this product really is a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, with less m...
www.guru3d.com www.guru3d.com
and finally for 160bit only cut down Nvidia GP106 (GDDR5) but again it could just be 192bit with mixed capacities (I couldn't find any 5GB PCB photo) Of course my impression could be wrong since Nvidia chips is like a black box and maybe since pascal generation they had a way to disable one memory 32bit channel somehow, but in any case, we are talking for only 2 Nvidia models for all the GDDR era , so not exactly plenty....
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Maybe "plenty" is not the right word, but it's clearly something that is very much possible and not so out of the ordinary. If you look up the stack instead of just at the lower end, you'll also find the 1080ti and 2080ti with their 352bits bus.

My guess is looking at die shots the memory phys are usually on the sides and symmetry wise it makes sense to make the sides similar-ish - like having 2 phys on top+ 2 bottom for 128, or 3 + 3 + 2 on the side for 256 for example.

Also, I think you're taking this as chip capacity for the intel 96bits, when it's likely only a specific model. Previous "leaks" all talk about 2 chip variants, one with 512EU and 256bits bus and one with 128EU and 128bits bus, both chip will give X card variants (dunno what intel will do, but looking at CPUs I think they'll segment the heck out of it) - both 96 and 192 will be cut down variants like nvidia and amd do.
 
trsttte said:
Maybe "plenty" is not the right word, but it's clearly something that is very much possible and not so out of the ordinary. If you look up the stack instead of just at the lower end, you'll also find the 1080ti and 2080ti with their 352bits bus.

My guess is looking at die shots the memory phys are usually on the sides and symmetry wise it makes sense to make the sides similar-ish - like having 2 phys on top+ 2 bottom for 128, or 3 + 3 + 2 on the side for 256 for example.

Also, I think you're taking this as chip capacity for the intel 96bits, when it's likely only a specific model. Previous "leaks" all talk about 2 chip variants, one with 512EU and 256bits bus and one with 128EU and 128bits bus, both chip will give X card variants (dunno what intel will do, but looking at CPUs I think they'll segment the heck out of it) - both 96 and 192 will be cut down variants like nvidia and amd do.
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Interesting, if the 128EU model has 128bit memory bus in its full specifications like you said, then it makes much more sense to be a cut down 96bit model, although Tom's Hardware it says the full specs is 96bit memory bus, anyway we will see.
Especially interesting is the fact that it can hit 2.45GHz with just 75W power consumption, this bodes very well for alchemist architecture:

Intel Arc A380 Reviewed, Specs of Full GPU Lineup Revealed

The low end of Intel's DG2 line-up is on par with Nvidia's GTX 1650 Super
www.tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com
 
Its vapourware until there is review on TPU and you can buy the card.

If one cant get real game tests, its just paper card.

If you cant buy it, its paper card.

Im expecting to be seriously disappointed by performance of that thing, cause in such state they can only surprise me positively. Thats if we live long enough to actually see it.
 
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