• conciselyverbose
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    03 months ago

    Even if you never buy an Arc card, a competitive Intel will benefit all gamers.

    Only if someone else does for you.

    • @Lusamommy@alien.top
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      03 months ago

      I mean so long as it’s a decent enough card, people will buy it. The arc cards we already got have some pretty solid price/performance, at least after the drivers got improved.

  • Apathy Tree
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    03 months ago

    That article is full of speculation; “if this” and “if that” and “if this other thing” than it will be great for everyone!

    “If” is doing a hell of a lot of heavy lifting…

    • Endorkend
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      03 months ago

      The A770 is actually fantastic, even more so for the price.

      What was garbage was the drivers and they’ve come a long way in bringing them up to speed.

      They had and to some extent still have a rather gigantic hurdle to cross getting older games up to speed, but the decision to employ at least partial Vulkan translation instead of trying to get DX9/10 drivers up to speed was a huge leap already.

      For modern games, when they are at least tested to run on the Intel cards, they perform on par with cards from AMD and Nvidia that cost $150+ more.

      And no, this isn’t coming from some Intel fanboy, I haven’t bought an Intel CPU since Coppermine and for GPUs I’ve simply switched between what was the best for a specific priceclass at the time I upgraded. And whenever something really new came along, like Kyro3D and PhysX cards (and now Intels GPUs), I bought those too.

      Also realize that Arcs ray tracing engine beats AMDs and keeps up with Nvidias in their first iteration of the chip.

      Their tech is sound and fully has the potential to be a competitor.

      • Rayspekt
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        03 months ago

        Can you give advice about if arc gpus are a good choice for linux pcs? I’m planning to build a pc with my so and it will be her first linux machine (probably linux mint debian if relevant). She’s tech savy but not the kind that fiddles with driver problems for hours, so it should work more or less out of the box. My reference is the rx 6700xt that I have at my garuda (arch) that runs genrally fine with minor sound bugs (hdmi).

    • @redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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      3 months ago

      Its performance and driver situation might not be as great as AMD and Nvidia at the moment, but at least it works. At the very least still miles ahead of Moore Threads GPUs, which released around the same time.

    • xep
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      03 months ago

      The Arc cards are the most price efficient graphics cards now, that’s hardly garbage.

    • Night Monkey
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      03 months ago

      Responding to the pro arc people: “yeah the last one was kinda shit. And it’s Intel. But, it’s cool because it’s not AMD or Nvidia”

      I’m so confused