Intel's New Brand For High Performance Discrete Graphics: Arc

[skeevy420]

There is no friction in a Arc dude. As a welder you should know that.

/s

Until your lead or wire touches (safety glasses)

[torsionbar28]

As a welder, Lincoln is the Arc brand I normally think of

As an old DEC guy, to me ARC is the firmware you run on an Alpha when you want to boot Win NT. Dumb marketing name for a Gfx card either way.

[Dr. Righteous]

*Yawn*
Man oh man. How long as it been that Intel has been promising a graphics solution to compete with AMD and Nvidia?
Waiting on benchmarks........................

[sdack]

What an informative video! 0% misinformation, 100% uncertainty on what I have actually seen, and sure do I want to watch it again! Best 19 seconds of my life.

[coder]

hopefully, Intel will help alleviate the shortage by having competing products not produced by TSMC or Samsung.

Oh, but Intel is making DG2 on TSMC 7 nm!

[coder]

Wth. Arc? Brand management?
I think they should take a page from their CPU division.
Choose one name and stick to it.

Are you saying they should've stuck with Xe? That was always problematic, due to being the chemical symbol for Xenon, which is way too damn close to their Xeon branding.

Core has sucked for 15 years.

Fixed that for you.

"Core" was one of the dumbest names they could've chosen, right at the dawn of the multi-core CPU era. I'm sure it's caused a tremendous amount of unnecessary confusion, over the past 1.5 decades.

[coder]

GPU mining will mostly be dead by then.

We can only hope.

GPU mining already died several times before...

[coder]

I sincerely hope that the name wasn't chosen because of high power requirements in these cards...

It sounds like they confused high-performance with high-voltage!

[kaidenshi]

i mean, and i don't expect exactly this, but i'd risk a mined 3080 for like $100

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've bought three used "miner" cards at super low prices in the past few years with no issues. It's my understanding that miners will re-flash the card with a firmware that reduces voltages and fan speeds to get the most performance/watt out of the cards. Two of the ones I bought were sold with full disclosure and after I flashed back to factory (and replaced one fan on one) they have been working fine. The third wasn't advertised as a mining card but it was obviously detuned, and flashing the firmware back to stock got it back in shape too. They were all Radeon cards, btw.

[rmfx]

Wth. Arc? Brand management?
I think they should take a page from their CPU division.
Choose one name and stick to it.
Core has worked well for 15 years.
Nvidias "GeForce" for more than two decades.

I think that’s the plan.
But Xe was a stupid name. It could be prononced many ways, it needed the case Xe to be recognizable.
So they fixed this terrible bad marketing before releasing anything…