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3mo ago

Intel won’t kill off its graphics card business

www.theverge.com

Intel won’t kill off its graphics card business

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Were there rumours that they would? I didn't hear them, but this is a weird news story to report on otherwise.
- Good Ol clickbait title.
  Not that they are much worse than the rest of the tech press but I avoid The Verge. They have a bad track record and regularly release really bad and misleading articles.
- I mean, they fired their last CEO that carefully planned and executed his plan to design and manufacture them (GPUs).
- There have been rumours like that for as long as the GPU business has existed.
  
  Is the GPU business a separate business, even? Or just the integrated graphics on their CPUs?

I was literally praying, like PRAYING.
I even prayed to the gods in my DnD world that intel wouldn't shut down the graphics department
I hope this success makes them consider this venture a success and continue as the third competitor
- O'Gola, O'Great Mozwen'uve... Give me the faith for intel to persevere and grant them power for they shall make INTEL ARC BATTLEMAGE Cards great!

Yet.

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Was there a chance that they would?
- It’s Intel so yes

Second generation of cards targeting budget computers that can't run on budget computers...intel silicon at this point is assured to be dead on arrival
- Why can't it run on budget computers? The reviews the seen at far have been positive.
  
  It can't run on CPUs that are older than 6 years. This is a non issue for regular users.
  
  Very recently found the architecture has a serious bottleneck that cripples performance on low end cpus. Not very old cpus, current generation budget processors that results in unexplained 35% or more performance loss.
  Reviews have updated and are being updated since about 3 days ago now with the recommendations going from great budget card to "stay very far away".
  See hardware unboxed for detail
- There are performance issues on old hardware, not budget hardware.
  Anyway I'm going to cut them some slack. Like you said, it's only their second generation and we badly need competition in this space, especially at the low end. It's good to have options.
  
  Competition is a must in the gpu market atm and the upgrade market is a fast the growing market as the market leader continues to price out consumers.
  That said, this intel silicon degradation in quality cannot be ignored across CPUs and GPUs. It's now consistently lowering in quality.

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