Then they'll be none of us left.
Hey, stop putting pressure on my
blue gray yellow stars!
Exactly,
it's not like intel NEVER made anything with graphics, they're new to the DISCRETE GPU market, that's it.
But it does look like the teams that make the igpus/software for them might as well be in a different company as they tried to do everything from scratch and reinvent the wheel.
What i don't understand is how they could fuckup basic stuff like a driver installer, or the driver UI
But that's just the thing. Intel's GPU project started off on wrong notions;
Early Xe for consumer was just more execution units of what they already had. They were literally making their igp's wider and bigger.
The Xe that followed was a massive tile for enterprise
The real Xe is a cut down gaming oriented result of the above two elements, and in the meantime they never went deep into the gaming driver regime. Instead, they just went for the quick win of emulating anything pre-DX12 and then going by singular DX12 titles for optimization. You can't even make it up. They've made a GPU 'work for some games', and then started adding a massive featureset of which the better half isn't even functional proper, up to and including simple things like actually showing something on display. The baseline DX12 performance per square mm of die space AND the perf/watt is below par which translates to not competitive in the market, and only their best optimized titles are somewhat competitive in perf.
In the meantime the GPU design contains lots of expanded pieces of 'stuff' that is hardly if ever utilized in games. There are interviews of the man Raja boasting all about how future proof all of that really is. Too bad you do need a future for that. In the tiny handful of titles where they can utilize those resources, Arc is
still barely competitive.
Its Raja all the way:
Horrifying project management skills,
terrible PR to oversell it,
no grasp on time to market,
ending up with an inefficient, unmarketable product at the very last stage, post planned release date, at which point there is no turning back.
Vega=Arc. Its a perfect match, sans HBM, or put differently, this time Raja didn't even NEED HBM to fuck it up.
If Intel can't compete with NVIDIA/AMD in discrete GPUs then nobody can. The entire project does seem mismanaged but we should all be hoping for it to be a success and that they continue the development and release of updated drivers and B- and C-Series Arc cards.
Well honestly, let's just pass this project over to Samsung, maybe they can do better. I remember the rumors about them wanting to buy RTG
Intel & gaming just aren't a match. Even their 'gamur' CPUs now aren't really gamer oriented even if they 'work fine' for the purpose. But the real gaming CPUs are X3D's now; a simple step away from a proven design but specifically oriented at gaming tasks, and damn good at exactly the most problematic CPU loads in gaming.