It’s official, the Intel Arc B580 GPU is launching on December 12, 2044
So excited. Can’t wait.
Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249
Submitted 5 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Let’s hope Intel’s build quality has improved since the A770.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I can’t wait for these to be EOLed due to the exec shakeup.
golli@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Isn’t this the same architecture that is also in their iGPUs? That should help keep them motivated to improve drivers even if they lose interest in dGPUs.
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Slightly better performance than a 4060 and $50 cheaper. But the 4060 is a few years old at this point, so is it actually a good deal? Questionable.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nvidia says the $2000 5090 comes out in January. They haven’t even hinted at an announcement for the 5060 so it will be a very long time before it comes out.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Might be a year before Nvidia’s next 60 class card is out. They usually release from highest spec to lowest.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Given that Nvidia send to be upping the prices of their 50XX series and the current 4060 and 7600 cards only offer 8 GB of vram, which honestly is insufficient for modern games now and overpriced, yeah, I do think this will offer decent value to budget gamers.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The 20xx series was expensive, skipped the 3x/4x and went back to amd. Even though I got my 7900xtx on sale, it still was insanely expensive for a gpu…where are the $500 top gpus gone.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Number for number, sure, if it’s actually available at that price.
The problem is that Intel’s drivers sucked in the past, so they definitely have to prove themselves with this launch. I definitely wouldn’t be buying it release day if I needed a GPU.
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
With its 8GB, the 4060 performs quite poorly when scaling up the resolution. There’s a great video by hardware unboxed showing how limiting 8GB are, in 1440p.
Addv4@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If it can ship before tariffs become an issue, maybe.
Katzenmann@feddit.org 5 months ago
Do these cards have good open-source Linux drivers?
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
The comments I’ve read from current-generation Arc owners have given the impression that their Linux drivers are catching up to AMD. Here’s the latest info:
kippinitreal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As an aside knowing most companies working in embedded technologies usually work in, or have strong aspects in Linux. Why then are Linux drivers so difficult to come by? Lack of customers seems unlikely since they mostly have everything ready, right? Is it because of the openness of Linux where everything can be traced? Or is there something more anticompetitive going on w.r.t. Windows?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Most of the demand is for Windows. So if your choice is to spend resources (money) where demand is, or hope that you can possibly create demand where there isn’t any currently.
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Been a while but I played around with the a770 in Arch for a few months. It didn’t play nice with proton and even native games were hit and miss. Better support from Intel than nvidia gives, but it’s a new platform and Linux development was definitely taking a back seat to the windows drivers which were also a buggy mess.
And basically nobody had the cards so if something didn’t work your options were to give up or become a computer graphics programming wizard and fix it all yourself from scratch.
To answer the question: not really, no. The drivers themselves may have been fine, but who knows how any given software will handle a brand new GPU architecture.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hopefully it will bring some decent generational improvements. The only thing i’m not a huge fan of is the 45% price increase over lasts gen, which isn’t even putting used or discounted cards into consideration
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Original MSRP of the A770 was $330 so that is a big improvement. I assume intel is sticking with a reasonable launch MSRP to set expectations right.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The A580 launched at 175$+tax. We are not talking about the same card
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I game at 1440p on a 1080ti. So what this tells me is that I don’t need to upgrade. Cool.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What do you play and on what settings? I know the 1080ti was a beast but it must surely be showing its age.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I mostly play BG3 now but I was hard into Destiny 2. As long as I capped my FPS to match my monitor (so 120), I could crank it up to pretty much max. BG3 and Last Epoch I max out (still fps capped). Cyberpunk 2077 I didn’t bother with and play it on GeForce Now. Most other games I play are AA or indie and the 1080ti at 1440p handles them easily.
Space Marine II is another that’s going on GeForce Now just because I want it on Ultra everything. So literally 95%+ of my library runs maxed at 1440p/120 on a 1080ti.
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Sick. I got an a770le when they launched. Buggy AF, but not bad performance when it decided to work. It currently lives as a dedicated av1 encoder in a Plex server
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
I just bought an a750 honestly I’m loving it. So far I’ve only had issues in Skyrim with the shadows, and vermintide 2.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
This looks insanely good.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
How these go Linux? Vroom or doom?
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I believe vroom, intel usually has good Linux support even having their own optimized distribution
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I love playing older titles…
anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can’t wait for the release in 2044! I hope 1440p is still all the rage when it launches!
Serious note: I hope Intel stays in the dgpu market, we could use another player in the space.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, very glad that Intel has started in the market.
It’s very refreshing to see a company release a reasonable, though that term has been skewed so much over the years, budget cpu that doesn’t completely suck and actually tries to run current green games.
adarza@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
for now, anyway. nobody knows if the discrete gpu division will survive the leadership shakeup and new ceo (when they find one)
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
This is a strange comment when the article is about the launch on December 12th. Maybe the joke went over my head?
anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Read the text from the post, not the article. OP said it is releasing in 2044 instead of 2024.
zib@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I haven’t been a huge fan of Intel for their cpus for some time now, but I agree, there needs to be more gpu competition out there. I’ve been wanting to try out an Arc for a while, I’m just hoping the dgpu drivers are better than what they run for their integrated chips.