This news is so terrible. It's a pretty good gpu! It's at a reasonable price.
Intel needs a graphics architecture. They might not be selling cards, but Intels also shipping new mobile chips with quite good Intel Xe gpus, which is great.
What are the alternatives? Stop making gpu's? Then, what, go back to buying small AMD gpu's to include on the CPU package, like with the i7-8809g?
Intel is really struggling right now, but I still have hope. We need some more competition in the consumer GPU market.
They keep making missteps.
A 32GB Arc card would be a huge upset in the budget/beginner AI space.
They made the Flex 170 GPU for vdi, and people were excited as hell. It's just slightly dressed up desktop Xe A770, ish (i think), but it also has support for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Alas it was basically unobtainable. Very few available in retail. And folks are charging multiple thousands for the couple rare instances that made it out.
Meanwhile we haven't seen AMD think twice about the virtualization market, something it has been serving ok with its MxGPU lineup.
Yah, that was a dissapointment. I would have bought the hell out of that card
Vram and fp16 seem to be what any ML person desires, even hobbyists. Hoping it becomes affordable one day.
That's what sucks...
It -could- be. A770s are about 300 bucks right now.
Even if they charged 600-700$ for a 32GB variant that would be an upset.
Then lots of folks would probably work to improve the software tooling story for the cards...
And then Intel has a better foot in the door for 'bigger' hardware in the space.
Totally agree. I don't need a super fast card, I need a card with a ton of vram.