Intel Updates Roadmap For Arc Graphics, Sapphire Rapids, Falcon Shores

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Updates Roadmap For Arc Graphics, Sapphire Rapids, Falcon Shores

As part of Intel's Investor Meeting today, the company provided an updated technical roadmap with some interesting bits of information...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Roadmap-2022-Fin-Day

[CommunityMember]

'Intel plans to have Arc Graphics "Alchemist" graphics cards for desktops in Q2'

So, end of June?

[Calinou]

'Intel plans to have Arc Graphics "Alchemist" graphics cards for desktops in Q2'

So, end of June?

Maybe June 31st if we're lucky?

[pinguinpc]

- Arctic Sound M will have a hardware-based AV1 video encoder

seriously thinking about send nvidia jensen to hell

[flower]

i really hope those cards support sr-iov.

[CommunityMember]

Maybe June 31st if we're lucky?

At least the higher memory cards look to be viable mining cards, so it might depend on a crypto crash.

[BreezeDM]

Intel plans to have Arc Graphics "Alchemist" graphics cards for desktops in Q2

Anyone know what the current Linux driver situation is for Alchemist?

[CommunityMember]

i really hope those cards support sr-iov.

The architecture is stated to support sr-iov, and will be available "in at least some discrete cards". Whether shipping desktop cards (vs. server/workstation cards) will have it available is still unclear. And then there is the necessary software support. I have not checked recently, but last I looked the intel linux driver did not have the necessary support, although Windows apparently will.

[partcyborg]

The architecture is stated to support sr-iov, and will be available "in at least some discrete cards". Whether shipping desktop cards (vs. server/workstation cards) will have it available is still unclear. And then there is the necessary software support. I have not checked recently, but last I looked the intel linux driver did not have the necessary support, although Windows apparently will.

I915 absolutely has sr-iov support. I have enabled it and used it before on an igpu

[jaxa]

- Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors with HBM memory are said to deliver a 2.8x generational improvement over Xeon 3rd Gen Ice Lake Sapphire Rapids with HBM for CFD is said to be 2.8x faster than "competing solutions".

Smells like extreme cherry picking.

I see a rumor that Genoa won't have HBM, but 3D V-Cache in Milan-X and future Epyc CPUs could produce similar results. Not in all workloads.