Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support

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  • WonkoTheSaneUK
    Phoronix Member
    • Dec 2016
    • 85

    #11
    Originally posted by pioto View Post
    What's the purpose of sticking PCIe 5.0 support on the host side (since Alderlake), yet not making a GPU that would use it.
    It fits in the slot?

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    • lyamc
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2020
      • 526

      #12
      Am I like the only one excited for these? I like to not spend ridiculous prices for decent GPU performance
      Last edited by lyamc; 03 December 2024, 12:28 PM. Reason: removed the gibberish

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      • rmfx
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2019
        • 757

        #13
        They sell it at a decent price. At least they understand that playing it modest and good deal is that way to fight ngreedia.
        Amd, you saw that ??? Just a hint….

        I am a big Intel hater, I say it openly, but I am happy to see them in the gpu business that they should have tried 15 years ago (but their management was greedy and stupid and deceiving, hence their current situation). We need more gpu competition to strive. Cpu since arm is packed with small to large competitors, not yet ready for prime time for computers but soon, on the gpu side, it’s still a bland competition.
        A trio will greatly help.
        Last edited by rmfx; 03 December 2024, 12:34 PM.

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        • Anux
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2021
          • 1941

          #14
          Originally posted by Melcar View Post
          With the way things are going in the gaming space and the proliferation of train wrecks like EU5, I doubt anyone would want a GPU that's less than a "high mid range" (meaning less than $500). Unless you are fine with using upscalers.
          I will never pay 500 for a graphics card as do most people in the world. Just take a look what GPUs are sold the most it's always the sub 300 category.
          If you remember even 10 years ago a Radeon 270X was good mid range costing 200$, try to get any mid range card today for that money ...

          A friend of mine just upgraded to a used RTX 2060, which was the best deal for price/perf I could find.

          On upscalers, I don't like the artifacts but sometimes it's better than playing at 720p which for example in Baldurs Gate 3 is not enough resolution to read all texts. (me playing on iGPU )
          Last edited by Anux; 03 December 2024, 12:34 PM.

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          • ikoz
            Junior Member
            • Oct 2024
            • 9

            #15
            Will there be a 7 series (B770, 16GB VRAM and 256 bit bus width?).
            B580 might have lower performance than A580 on FluidX3D, which depends (like most HPC workloads) on memory bandwidth. The A-series really excelled at it, even surpassing 4070.

            A770 A580 B580 4060 4070
            560 GB/s 512 GB/s 456 GB/s 272 GB/s 504 GB/s
            20 TFLOP/s 12 TFLOP/s 14 TFLOP/s 15 TFLOP/s 15 TFLOP/s

            I know this is a niche use, and most here would care about gaming, but I still think it is important.

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            • sophisticles
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2015
              • 2590

              #16
              I think this is the market that Intel should be concentrating on aggressively,

              AMD has abandoned the dGPU gaming market, I would even say they have abandoned the consumer CPU market in favor of chasing the high profit margins of the AI/ML/HPC/Datacenter markets that NVIDIA has been getting all fat from.

              And this is fine, the purpose of a business is to make as much money as they legally can.

              But it does leave a huge glaring emptiness in the low end and mid range consumer market, the markets that allowed NVIDIA and AMD to make a name for themselves in the first place all those years ago.

              Intel has breadth said they do not want to try to challenge NVIDIA at the high end AI market, but I think everyone is wrongly ignoring the low to mid end AI/gaming/video consumer markets.

              While i tend to favor NVIDIA graphics cards, the price point of these coupled with their video capabilities does make them an attractive buy.

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              • remm
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2007
                • 191

                #17
                Looks like a very interesting card. I would buy it if I was looking for something right now, but I don't really need to replace my 7600 either.

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                • castlefox
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2008
                  • 237

                  #18
                  Originally posted by lyamc View Post
                  Am I like the only one excited for these? I like to not spend ridiculous prices for decent GPU performance
                  You are not the only one. I am excited to see another vendor making video cards than just AMD & Nvidia.
                  Hopefully Intel has made some improvements over their last generation of video cards.... but I am concerned that the next Intel CEO is going to cut their consumer video cards.

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                  • Melcar
                    Senior Member
                    • Dec 2007
                    • 1515

                    #19
                    Originally posted by castlefox View Post

                    You are not the only one. I am excited to see another vendor making video cards than just AMD & Nvidia.
                    Hopefully Intel has made some improvements over their last generation of video cards.... but I am concerned that the next Intel CEO is going to cut their consumer video cards.
                    Hopefully he wont, but who knows. Intel and the US gov. have finalized ironing out the details of the CHIPS loan. Lots of conditions were put on Intel and I have no doubt some if not all of the recent news regarding Intel restructuring are due to that. The ousting of their CEO was probably a requirement and maybe cutting the GPU division is another.

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                    • chuckula
                      Senior Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 844

                      #20
                      I'll be getting a B580 for one of my home systems to replace an older 2060 Nvidia card, and I'll let you know how it goes with Arch Linux.
                      The machine is used for gaming (Hogwarts Academy & the new Sonic Generations games in particular) so it's not meant to be the ultimate gaming card but I will put it through its paces in more than just basic desktop use.

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