Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews
Battlemage is working.
Hopefully this convinces their executives to continue to fund the dGPU department. The more competitors the better.
Seriously.
I'm thinking about getting two or three. One for a work desktop, one for my media server, and maybe one to use for transcodes and testing.
Nah. They're probably going to kill it because it doesn't provide high enough margins.
Literally all they have to do is beat nvidia by one GB of VRAM on any card and people will go nuts. Nvidia is so afraid of making another 1080ti that even their 4090 gets like 2 less frames in Fortnite at 1080p.
I'm still shopping for titans or 1080ti for my next build. Medium 1080p is fine by me for anything in the near future.
As someone out of the loop here, what does this mean here? Was it over powered?
It is actually the best 1080p DX11 card ever made. And lots of people who bought it are still using it. Nvidia is doing everything they can to entice people to upgrade annually or to at least pay through the nose for the barest future proofing.
That's finally some good news in the dGPU department. This GPU would have been terrific if it was released 1-2 years ago. I really hope they succeed and continue developing GPUs. We need so much a good competition to NVIDIA.
Amazing! Or it would have been in an alternate timeline where the RX7600 and RTX4060 were just released. Over here in the real world, Intel is more than a year late to the party with a lackluster product. NVIDIA and AMD have new cards releasing in early 2025 and, given that the B580 is within 15% of last year's offerings in 1080p, it's probably about to be outclassed. I really hope its existence at least forces the other two to stop with the 8GB of VRAM insanity but unless you need to upgrade right now, you shouldn't care about this. So can we stop pretending it's a good product?
depending on what amd and Nvidia's prices are it could still be a good product, just not a competitor to a 5080.
Saying it's "not a competitor to a 5080" is disingenuous. It's also not gonna be a competitor to the 5070 and will barely compete with the 5060, and that's assuming NVIDIA somehow only improves upon the 4060 by 15%, which would be their worst generational leap in like 10 years. The B580 is an almost 2025 card with 2023 performance. Its only purpose is to force NVIDIA and AMD to cut down their prices.
