If successful, Intel's next generation Battlemage graphics cards will benefit all gamers
If successful, Intel's next generation Battlemage graphics cards will benefit all gamers
It'll keep Nvidia and AMD honest.
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That's what they said about Arc and then they were garbage
Were they though? After they fixed the drivers and used proper transition layers for directX they're really decent entry-level cards.
Uh they weren't garbage, there was some crappy drivers early on, but that's mostly been fixed now. They're no 4090Ti Ultra Premium Super Whatever, but on cost to performance in the entry level segment they're solid performers
The cheap arc are great, no amazing, for homeservers and transcoding.
Have people actually used them for transcoding in anger yet? I was very interested in buying one for transcoding on a Plex or jellyfin server but last I checked, there were still lots of driver limitations
It's supposed to have support in Jellyfin.
Supposed to yes, but when I last checked (which was a few months ago, admittedly), it would crap out if you tried to transcode more than a couple of streams at a time. Which given that an intel CPU with quicksync can easily do 20+ 1080p streams, was a bit of a let down.
I was tempted to try it but my Jellyfin server is hosted on an Unraid box and Unraid doesn't (didn't?) support the Intel GPUs.
The Arc cards are the most price efficient graphics cards now, that's hardly garbage.
Its performance and driver situation might not be as great as AMD and Nvidia at the moment, but at least it works. At the very least still miles ahead of Moore Threads GPUs, which released around the same time.
The games that have drivers make it a kick ass card. It's just a question of if every game you play has those drivers.
Latest batch of drivers has them competing against the mid-range current-gen cards. They're putting in the work to really start throwing punches.