Intel Announces Faster Arc Pro A60 & A60M Graphics

[lyamc]

That moment when you buy a GPU to be an AV1 transcoder only for the driver to be shot and left to die.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

I must have missed the explanation as to why the "Pro" card has less memory than the non-Pro card (A770)?

Supposedly it's a third GPU that essentially doubles the hardware resources of the ACM-G11 from the A380. So it's the pro / compute version of the not released middle child A580.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/x...l/-/issues/234

Yikes. Even more glad I returned my A770. An end state where one driver is better for gaming and another has all the encoding features enabled seems crazy.

[Quackdoc]

The new Xe driver is going to be DG3+ only?

not really, numerous other people are already using it on DG2, keep in mind that XE is not what is important here, what is important is VM_BIND that i915 isn't getting for a long time if at all

[QwertyChouskie]

The new Xe driver is going to be DG3+ only?

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/234

[QwertyChouskie]

> The Arc Pro A60M continues to support other common DG2/Alchemist GPU features like AV1 decoding.

Not if you need VM_BIND support.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/234

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Are these cards based on DG2 or DG3? If theses are still DG2, than who in their right mind is going to buy them. The GPUs won't be fully supported in the new Xe DRM driver on Linux if still DG2. No one should buy a DG2 based Intel GPU especially if you are using Linux. Since Intel chose to burn those of us in the Linux community who purchased DG2 cards. I will not even consider Intel again. Screwing over whole communities on only your second gen product does not bode well for the future of the Arc gpus.

The new Xe driver is going to be DG3+ only?

[Quackdoc]

I would say that anyone wanting an intel gpu wait for either VM_BIND development to get picked back up for i915 or for DG2's huc loading to be added to XE, one or the other will be fine

[Paradigm Shifter]

I must have missed the explanation as to why the "Pro" card has less memory than the non-Pro card (A770)?

This actually looks pretty interesting since it's a single slot card, and 12GB of VRAM is great if the street pricing ends up being reasonable. It's like a slower poor man's version of the RTX A4000. I still wish there was a 75W single slot version of this or the A380. I'm not even sure what has filled that gap best since the old Quadro P2000.

The A2000?

Oh, no, that's dual-slot low-profile only.

I'm sure I saw a single-slot "normal" version...??? Maybe it was a concept which was never launched?

[toguro123]

Performance is almost secondary when it comes to workstation gfx cards. Most of Intel's focus here is to have the hardware and drivers tested and certified to have full compatibility/stability (all the boring stuff) with the applications that their target customers use.

I would not wish having to inspect a moderately complex FEA mesh with a GeForce on my worst enemy.