{"id":134701,"date":"2024-12-08T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T04:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134701"},"modified":"2024-12-08T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T04:21:04","slug":"its-finally-time-to-stop-ignoring-intel-gpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134701","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s finally time to stop ignoring Intel GPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"dt-post-content\">\n<div class=\"b-toc h-toc\">\n\t<label for=\"dt-toc\" style=\"display: none\"><br \/>\n\t\tTable of Contents\t<\/label><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<select id=\"dt-toc\"><option value=\"dt-toc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tTable of Contents\t\t\t<\/option><option value=\"dt-heading-fulfilling-amds-role\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tFulfilling AMD\u2019s role\t\t\t\t<\/option><option value=\"dt-heading-more-vram-fewer-problems\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tMore VRAM, fewer problems\t\t\t\t<\/option><option value=\"dt-heading-drivers-are-better-but-work-is-ongoing\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tDrivers are better, but work is ongoing\t\t\t\t<\/option><option value=\"dt-heading-something-to-keep-in-mind\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSomething to keep in mind\t\t\t\t<\/option><\/select>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Intel is taking another swing at making it among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/best-graphics-cards\/\">best graphics cards<\/a> with the Arc B580, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/intel-battlemage-b580-announcement\/\">set to launch<\/a> in a matter of days. It\u2019s the first time we\u2019re seeing discrete graphics on desktop packing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/intel-battlemage-everything-we-know-so-far\/\">Intel\u2019s Battlemage<\/a> architecture, and it\u2019s arriving just weeks before AMD and Nvidia are set to launch new generations.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard about Intel\u2019s first attempt with discrete GPUs, and all of the problems that ensued. Things have changed quite a bit over the past few years, though. I need to wait until the Arc B580 is here to fully put it through its paces, but based on what Intel has shared so far, it\u2019s a card you should definitely keep an eye on.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"dt-heading-fulfilling-amds-role\" aria-label=\"Fulfilling AMD\u2019s role\"\/>Fulfilling AMD\u2019s role<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3362196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3362196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/rx-7600-review-1.jpg?fit=720%2C480&amp;p=1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-3362196 h-lightbox is-zoomable dt-lazy-load dt-lazy-pending\" alt=\"AMD RX 7600 on a pink background.\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.4985014985015\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3362196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Jacob Roach \/ Digital Trends<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Intel is fulfilling AMD\u2019s traditional role in the GPU market, and that\u2019s only clear if you\u2019ve been following PC hardware for a while. Although AMD and Nvidia were on equal footing more than a decade ago, Nvidia has undoubtedly taken over the lead in flagship performance over the last several generations. During that time, AMD focused more on undercutting Nvidia\u2019s lower-end products, releasing GPUs that never neared flagship performance but delivered solid value for the money.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b-in-content-shortcode \" data-shortcode-name=\"respec-newsletter-signup\">\n<div>\n<div><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/respec-newsletter\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Respec-Prom-Image-Sign-Up.jpg?fit=650&amp;p=1\" class=\"dt-lazy-load dt-lazy-pending\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>   <strong class=\"b-in-content-shortcode__title\">Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s been changing in recent generations. With the first RDNA generation, AMD pushed into the midrange with the RX 5700 XT, and in the RDNA 2 generation, it went after the flagship crown with the RX 6900 XT \u2014 a trend that AMD maintained with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/amd-rx-7900-xtx-rx-7900-xt-review\/\">RX 7900 XTX<\/a> in the current generation. That\u2019s great for PC gamers looking for alternative GPU options, but it\u2019s led AMD to more closely align with Nvidia\u2019s pricing structure.<\/p>\n<p>You see that at the high end with GPUs like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/nvidia-rtx-4080-super-review\/\">RTX 4080 Super<\/a> and RX 7900 XTX launching at $1,000, but also lower down the stack. In the past three generations, both AMD and Nvidia have pushed budget workhorse GPUs like Nvidia\u2019s RTX XX60 series and AMD\u2019s RX X600 series toward $300. Previously, budget options like the GTX 1660 and RX 580 sat closer to $200.<\/p>\n<p>That context is important to understand where Intel currently fits in the market. Regardless of what you think about Intel\u2019s GPUs or Intel as a company, there\u2019s no doubt that Arc GPUs serve as a counterweight to the rising prices on budget GPUs from AMD and Nvidia. Intel is also offering GPUs that AMD and Nvidia have ignored. In the previous generation, Nvidia offered the RTX 3050 and AMD the RX 6500 XT at around the $250 mark. This generation, that class of GPU is completely absent.<\/p>\n<p>On pricing alone, it\u2019s worth looking at Intel\u2019s options. Even if the upcoming B580 falls short of Intel\u2019s performance claims, it\u2019d still be a very impressive graphics card. At $250, it\u2019s undercutting AMD and Nvidia, so even if it performs on-par with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/nvidia-rtx-4060-review\/\">RTX 4060<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/amd-rx-7600-review\/\">RX 7600<\/a> \u2014 Intel claims it\u2019s faster than those two GPUs \u2014 it\u2019s still worth considering based purely on price.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"dt-heading-more-vram-fewer-problems\" aria-label=\"More VRAM, fewer problems\"\/>More VRAM, fewer problems<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3635820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3635820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/rtx-4090-super-teclab-board.jpg?fit=720%2C404&amp;p=1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-3635820 h-lightbox is-zoomable dt-lazy-load dt-lazy-pending\" alt=\"The board of the RTX 4090 Super graphics card.\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777778\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3635820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Teclab<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Intel took another note from AMD\u2019s playbook \u2014 higher VRAM capacity. For close to two years now, I and many other reviewers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/why-vram-is-keeping-your-pc-from-playing-latest-games\/\">screaming from the rooftops<\/a> about how graphics cards with 8GB of VRAM aren\u2019t suitable for a modern gaming experience, and we\u2019re seeing that play out now. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/indiana-jones-8gb-graphics-cards\/\">games like\u00a0<em>Indiana Jones and the Great Circle<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>even the RTX 3080 struggles to maintain a playable frame rate at 1080p due to its limited VRAM capacity. And modern 8GB GPUs like the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 don\u2019t have any hope of running the game without some serious limitations.<\/p>\n<p>Intel has addressed the VRAM problem. In the previous generation, even the $300 Arc A770 packed 16GB of VRAM, and with its new B580 and B570, you\u2019re getting 12GB and 10GB, respectively. VRAM capacity is like system memory capacity \u2014 more isn\u2019t better unless you\u2019re using it. The problem now is that several games\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>using more than 8GB, even at 1080p, and that\u2019s a problem that only Intel is tackling right now.<\/p>\n<p>Buying a GPU with more VRAM simply because it has more VRAM isn\u2019t a good idea. That\u2019s a trap we\u2019ve seen in the past, particularly with AMD\u2019s budget options. Today, the situation is different. Intel is meeting the need for more VRAM with budget GPUs that, well, pack more VRAM. That extra capacity won\u2019t boost performance across games, but you\u2019ll be thankful when a game like <em>Indiana Jones and the Great Circle\u00a0<\/em>comes along.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"dt-heading-drivers-are-better-but-work-is-ongoing\" aria-label=\"Drivers are better, but work is ongoing\"\/>Drivers are better, but work is ongoing<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3165524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3165524\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Intel-XeSS-Demo.jpg?fit=720%2C404&amp;p=1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-3165524 h-lightbox is-zoomable dt-lazy-load dt-lazy-pending\" alt=\"Intel Arc demo: Ryan Shrout plays Shadow of the Tomb Raider on a gaming PC.\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777778\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3165524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=frlXry38tJo\" rel=\"nofollow noskim\">Intel<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t blame you for writing off Intel GPUs when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/intel-arc-a770-a750-review\/\">Arc A770 and A750<\/a> first launched. They had a lot of problems. It didn\u2019t matter how much cheaper they were than the competition, nor the performance in benchmark staples like <em>Cyberpunk 2077.\u00a0<\/em>The drivers and software had a lot of issues.<\/p>\n<p>DirectX 9 performance wasn\u2019t there at all. You\u2019d see around half of the frame rate as something like the RTX 3060 in a game like\u00a0<em>Counter-Strike Global Offensive\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>Payday 2.\u00a0<\/em>Outside of DirectX 9, the GPUs struggled with a wide range of games, and Intel had to play whack-a-mole to get everything up to snuff. Even earlier this year, we saw driver updates from Intel that claimed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/intel-arc-driver-update-january-2024\/\">268% boost in games like\u00a0<em>Just Cause 4<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em>You don\u2019t get that kind of boost unless there are problems. Perhaps the most infamous example is\u00a0<em>Starfield,\u00a0<\/em>where Intel users had to wait several days before playing the game due to the lack of a driver \u2014 the game otherwise wouldn\u2019t run on Intel GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>Those issues are (mostly) behind Intel. For DirectX 9, Intel redesigned its driver package to boost performance. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/intel-arc-alchemist-driver-update-doubled-performance\/\">interviewed Intel\u2019s Tom Petersen<\/a> around the time, who reiterated that, \u201cit is well understood within our organization that, you know, driver updates are what\u2019s going to make the difference between our success and lack of success.\u201d Today, DirectX 9 performance is on-par with DirectX 11, which is great.<\/p>\n<p>As for individual games, things are better. Although new drivers occasionally deliver performance gains in games, I haven\u2019t seen a driver delivering triple-digit improvements since the beginning of the year. That suggests Intel\u2019s whack-a-mole phase is close to over, if it isn\u2019t over already. Since the release of the Arc A770 and A750, Intel has released 78 new drivers \u2014 I counted \u2014 and sometimes those drivers are updated within a matter of days of each other.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying Intel\u2019s GPUs are free of issues. Even Nvidia and AMD occasionally run into problems, and despite a ton of diligent driver work, discrete GPUs are still a relatively new venture for Intel. Those issues just aren\u2019t as prevalent or severe as they once were. It\u2019s hard to say Intel\u2019s drivers are as iron-clad as AMD and Nvidia\u2019s at this point \u2014 I can\u2019t test\u00a0<em>every single game\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 but they\u2019re a heck of a lot better than they were two years ago when the Arc A770 and A750 launched.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"dt-heading-something-to-keep-in-mind\" aria-label=\"Something to keep in mind\"\/>Something to keep in mind<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3789771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3789771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ARC-B-STILLS_09_V2.jpg?fit=720%2C405&amp;p=1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-3789771 h-lightbox is-zoomable dt-lazy-load dt-lazy-pending\" alt=\"An exploded view of Intel's Arc A580 GPU.\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777778\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3789771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Intel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Arc B580 isn\u2019t here yet, so I don\u2019t want anyone to leave this article thinking I\u2019m recommending you buy the GPU. That\u2019s a question that I\u2019ll answer in my review of the GPU next week. But a lot has changed with Intel\u2019s GPUs over the past two years, and given what leaks have suggested about Nvidia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/nvidia-rtx-50-series-everything-we-know-so-far\/\">RTX 50-series GPUs<\/a> and AMD\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/amd-rdna-4-everything-we-know-so-far\/\">RX 8000 options<\/a>, the B580 might be a very compelling option.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, make sure to read several reviews before making a decision when the card launches on December 13. The main thing I want to encourage you to do is not count the GPU out. It\u2019s possible that we\u2019ll see cards reaching down to $250 from AMD and Nvidia, but I suspect they won\u2019t launch for several months, if not a year from now. 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