Intel Announces Arc Pro A-Series Professional GPUs

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

	Intel Arc Pro A40 GPU	Intel Arc Pro A50 GPU	Intel Arc Pro A30M GPU (Mobile)
Peak Performance	3.50 TFLOPs at Single Precision	4.80 TFLOPs at Single Precision	3.50 TFLOPs at Single Precision

No word about Double Precision performance, seems not supported!

There are "definite flops"(R)(c)tm in the intel gpu

[CommunityMember]

so if it is DX12.2 Compatible why not with dx9 or dx11?

The currently available DX12 drivers are considered to achieve reasonable (if not as good as some hoped) results with the available GPUs, while the DX9/11 paths are consider to perform very poorly. That is (apparently) why the benchmark results that have been posted are all over the place, as if the game uses DX12 or Vulkan the results look much much better than if it uses DX9/11. The claim by some is that Intel did not fully appreciate the limitations in their existing drivers for DX9/11, and will now have to work to improve them, and that takes time (a lot of time).

[schmidtbag]

Huh, so much for the rumors of Intel cancelling the Arc line!

There were no such rumors. What's being canceled is the production of some AIB partners, which to my understanding is not a rumor.

[Raka555]

I actually like what I am seeing provided that the performance/$ is good.

Intel usually have great open source drivers for their hardware, so I can see myself buying these.

[kpedersen]

I will use this the next time someone tells me BSD users aren't delusional and fully disconnected from reality.

Get in line behind the Windows guys kiddo. They have been saying we are all delusional for decades!

[CommunityMember]

Also what is the point of "Pro" GPU here for such low power target and low performance, unless target is maybe transcode performance?

This is for the "Pro"fessional workstation market (the same market that the lower end nvidia P620 / amd WX4100 are targeted at), i.e. the entry level Adobe Premier, AutoCad market. This is absolutely not a card targeted towards the extreme gamers (although you can probably run some games on them). For the "Pro"fessional workstation market, low profile, multiple DP outputs with reasonable GPU capabilities can be a useful (and profitable) deliverable. I would expect higher end Pro cards (just like nvidia/amd have) at a later time. An important differentiator here between something like a A380 and an A50 is that the drivers for the "Pro" line are certified for (and with the vendors of) the applications, and since this is about businesses making money, getting, and using certified drivers is critical to the solution.

[erniv2]

I've read numerous articles about the poor ARC performance that even Intel is now priming consumers for. Until recently Intel claimed it would be some new revolutionary architecture that would vault them into competition with AMD and Nvidia, but just yesterday I read that Intel is now warning it won't even work with many DX9 to DX11 games.

That was really surprising. Not even fully DX11 compatible? It's just crazy.

Intel® Arc™ Pro A-Series Graphics for Workstations

If you scroll down you can see those fat DX12Ultimate OpenCL and Vulkan Logos, so if it is DX12.2 Compatible why not with dx9 or dx11? And even if then thats a Software issue not Hardware.

[cb88]

I will use this the next time someone tells me BSD users aren't delusional and fully disconnected from reality.

For real the AMD and Intel drivers might have bugs on BSD but... compared to nouveau LOL. Nouveau has never been a good driver... its just there so you can boot your system at least so it can tell you to install the proprietary driver.

[Alexmitter]

Same! OpenBSD doesn't support nouveau so its is buggy AMDGPU or Intel and up until this point Intel has been integrated only, I would pay for a P series ThinkPad with an Intel professional card in it!

I will use this the next time someone tells me BSD users aren't delusional and fully disconnected from reality.

[erniv2]

Specs are not impressive at all

Also, they didn't write anything about the price, I guess the reason is that it's higher than Nvidia and AMD have per flops..

Sad.

Hope I misunderstood something.

I guess the selling point here is that the A40 has a TDP of 50w wich can be completly be drawn from the pcie slot, and a RTX30 card has a min TDP of 150w an needs atleast 1 8 pin pcie power connector not to mention the flagship models that draw over 300w and need 3 connectors, the low TDP was the 1st thing that cought my eye in this post.