In the current market, the A580 doesn’t look to be very attractive, compared to other intel gpus.
But something very interesting is 8GB of vram at under 200$. In this market where nvidia puts all the vram in AI gpus, it’s a nice number to see.
Hopefully intel battlemage (next intel gen) can disrupt the market with true competition.
I think the best thing about Intel’s offering is that they are trying to pitch the value proposition. The cards aren’t amazing, the drivers are hit and miss, but every few weeks I see a new update posted bringing the cards closer and closer to parity with the more expensive and established brands. 10% increase one, week 15% increase another; 110% increase was the latest I read, although that might’ve been OpenCL performance.
Ultimately I hope Intel transitions their capabilities with these Arc cards into modular APU-style designs.
A sub $200 card with AV1 encoding/decoding does sound like an interesting possiblity.
There’s already the A380 for like $100 and apparently there’s an A310 for around that price as well. They don’t perform very well for gaming though, the A3A80 is a bit worse than an RX 580 afaik.
Article mentions the A750 for just $11 more, is that true or is that just a current special discount? A750 is not on sale where I am and I’m not clicking on affiliate links. xD
Benchmarks vs RX 6600 and RTX 3050.
If it’s small enough it can be a sff build. Or a maybe a kids/1st pc build. Or a dedicated pc for playing a few games which doesn’t require too much system resource. Like league of legends or fortnite.
Either way it definitely has its place in the market. As long as people don’t expect too much of it.
