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Intel's $249 Arc B580 is the GPU we've begged for since the pandemic | PCWorld (www.pcworld.com)

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If even half of Intel's claims are true, this could be a big shake up in the midrange market that has been entirely abandoned by both Nvidia and AMD.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Seems like a decent card, but here are my issues:

12 GB RAM - not quite enough to play w/ LLMs
a little better than my 6650 XT, but not amazingly so
$250 - a little better than RX 7600 and RTX 4060 I guess? Probably?

If it offered more RAM (16GB or ideally 24GB) and stayed under $300, I'd be very interested because it opens up LLMs for me. Or if it had a bit better performance than my current GPU, and again stayed under $300 (any meaningful step-up is $350+ from AMD or Nvidia).

But this is just another low to mid-range card, so I guess it would be interesting for new PC builds, but not really an interesting upgrade option. So, pretty big meh to me. I guess I'll check out independent benchmarks in case there's something there. I am considering building a PC for my kids using old parts, so I might get this instead of reusing my old GTX 960, the board I'd use only has PCIe 3.0, so I worry performance would suffer and the GTX 960 may be a better stop-gap.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

12 GB RAM - not quite enough to play w/ LLMs

Good. Not every card has to be about AI, there's enough of those already; we need gaming cards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, I'm just saying what I would need for this card to be interesting. It's not much better than what I have, and the extra VRAM isn't enough to significantly change what I can do with it.

So it either needs to have better performance or more VRAM for me to be interested.

It's a decent choice for new builds, but I don't really think it makes sense as an upgrade for pretty much any card that exists today.

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