Intel Arc (new question)

[Burlyman]

Is it true that Intel fixed all the problems with it? I heard someone say they get 160 fps in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (but he could’ve been paid to say that. x_x)

[Tunnelcat]

Sounds like they've vastly improved some of the issues with better driver updates. But I'm still a wait and see for now, especially since I coughed up for an Nvidia 3080Ti and it works great. If Intel can beat the King's ransom pricing of Nvidia and AMD cards, I might start looking at their offerings.

https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-ar ... ce-upgrade

[Krom]

It is easy to get major performance upgrades in drivers when the driver quality is complete garbage to begin with. Don't get me wrong, nvidia and amd drivers are frequently full of all sorts of comical errata, bugs, performance regressions, etc. But nvidia probably has maintained 10x the amount of human resources working on their software for the last 20 years than Intel or AMD combined, there is a reason they totally dominate gaming right now even though AMD is in all the big consoles. (And the main reason AMD are in consoles is because it is well known Nvidia are assholes that are incredibly difficult to work with.)

Intel is not in a good place right now, their process technology is stalled, they just cut pay and benefits in order "to avoid layoffs" and then had layoffs anyway. Also the guy they brought over from AMD to work on graphics (because he hadn't done enough damage to the industry yet) quit and co-founded some venture capital place instead.

[Tunnelcat]

Then you've got material shortages and quality control issues due to Covid. A perfect storm of "Don't buy this newish still in beta testing phase product just yet" issue.

[Burlyman]

That's what I was afraid of. Okay, thanks for answering. Maybe next time, Intel.

[Tunnelcat]

This from the company that brought us the Intel Management Engine, or whatever the hell it's supposed to do, which I haven't figured out yet and is almost impossible to get reliable updates for anyway.

[Burlyman]

I still like their BTX form factor.

[TigerRaptor]

(And the main reason AMD are in consoles is because it is well known Nvidia are assholes that are incredibly difficult to work with.)

Isn't that the truth. Even Linus Torvalds told Nvidia to ★■◆● off.