Intel Arc "Battlemage" Xe2 GPUs with 448 EUs (56 Xe cores) Spotted in Transit

[bitsandboots]

Trouble is, AMD has its sights set on the AI market and it's miles ahead of Intel in that area, with a more widely accepted software stack.

In what way? ROCm versus OneAPI? I haven't heard talk of OneAPI but I've heard mainly negative talk about ROCm - either that it's unavailable on hardware or unavailable on software you want to use. Or cases where AMD's forced to do operations with 32 bit width instead of 16 and therefore needs twice the VRAM to store it.
Intel and AMD both have scored supercomputer deals recently. But I think such computers tend to work around software limitations that would burden other market segments, so I can't tell whether AMD or Intel is really meaningfully outdoing each other relative to Nvidia.

On the consumer side, https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/stable-diffusion-benchmarks showed intel had surprisingly competitive performance compared to amd. But, there's a few caveats. They were using Windows and all the AMD SD users I know claim the windows performance is a disaster compared to using AMD + Linux + SD. I haven't heard if the same is true for Intel because I don't know anyone who has even tried. On Nvidia it doesn't really matter, the performance between linux and windows for SD isnt that significant.

 

[Sunny and 75]

They've said they will enter high-end (80 class) with Celestial so there won't be any 90 class competitor until Druid is well and truly ready and that's when things will get interesting.

 

[Kyan]

They've said they will enter high-end (80 class) with Celestial so there won't be any 90 class competitor until Druid is well and truly ready and that's when things will get interesting.

At this rate it will be in 2030+. They really need to speed a little bit since they kinda make the driver part usable now.

 

[Sunny and 75]

At this rate it will be in 2030+. They really need to speed a little bit since they kinda make the driver part usable now.

I'm of the same opinion.

 

[Vayra86]

At this rate it will be in 2030+. They really need to speed a little bit since they kinda make the driver part usable now.

Good stuff takes time, I'd much rather see them build a solid arch now then to rush it and juice it way past comfort and with a plethora of bugs.

 

[Sunny and 75]

Good stuff takes time, I'd much rather see them build a solid arch now then to rush it and juice it way past comfort and with a plethora of bugs.

They'll get there, eventually.

We might even see the PS6 with an Intel arch. IIRC, Sony released the PS3 with an Nvidia arch.