Intel's rumored high-end Battlemage GPUs have been cancelled - is it time to worry about GPU competition?
Intel's rumored high-end Battlemage GPUs have been cancelled - is it time to worry about GPU competition?
Not surprising the both AMD and Intel have given up on the consumer high-end segment.
At the prices in that segment, people are going to go with Nvidia almost by default.
I hope this is just fake news, because Intel has the foundation, their Battlemage is pretty damn good. They just need to scale it up a bit more. I don't care if it's flagship levels or not, if they can squeeze out RTX 5070Ti or RX 9070 XT performance out of ARC card and it would be awesome.
eh, 9070 XT is only a little bit slower than the top of the line 7900 XTX. In my mind it's still high-end, 5090 should get it's own super-ultra-high end designation lol
I don’t think AMD has. My understanding was that the next gen UDNA architecture has the full range. It’s meant to launch next year.
The two RDNA 4 cards were just to have something out at the same time as the 5000 series.
I bought the RX 9070 XT and it's freaking amazing. Like, who gives a shit if NVIDIA holds the performance crown when their cards are entirely unobtainable and so expensive they are out of reach of most people? Fuck that metric. On top of that they have missing ROPs, melting power connector because they run so close to its power limit and they keep denying that shit for second generation now.
And don't be mistaken, RX 9070 XT is a VERY high performing card, often beating RTX 5080. They also improved FSR4 to levels that mostly beat DLSS3 CNN in terms of quality which is huge. They improved ray tracing basically on par with NVIDIA and AFMF or AMD Fluid Motion Frames is AMAZING framegen tech. I love it so much and it just works in all games and it works really well. RDNA4 was a huge leap for AMD.
Not to mention Radeon software is SIGNIFICANTLY better than NVIDIAs stupid control panel from year 2006 and same goes for new NVIDIA App. It's just such a stupid piece of software with missing settings available in old panel and also with dumbest overclocking panel I've ever seen.
Yeah, AMD basically said "tactical retreat" and tried to make a popular midrange card to get market share back up.
I don't think they have long term plans to stay midrange only. They'll keep working and once they have something that can compete, they'll launch it.
I don't care what "side" you're on. This is bad for all of us. Competition is the only reason Nvidia isn't charging 2k for a GPU already. If AMD walks away we are all fucked now.
I really hope this isn’t true. I’m probably a unicorn here, but I have an Arc A750 and I really like it. I was actually considering getting the next high end Intel GPU.
Intel is getting bought by Nvidia. It is inevitable I think. It just makes sense.
I dont get where you think it makes sense, Intels foundries cant do the nm that nvidia would need, so owning those wouldnt be of use. NVIDIA already has its own CPU/DPU/GPU architectures and all the x86 stuff isnt a help to them when they use RISC or Arm. So would you please inform me what NVIDIA would see in acquiring Intel?
Think in terms of military. x86 is dead in its present form. The GPU is a hack. The real future is a single product that can do all compute tasks. Taking Intel will make the US gov happy. It gives Nvidia a real future beyond the GPU boom of the present.
You're thinking about the present. I'm thinking about 10 years from now where the real design edge is at. Nvidia has had a lot of luck and good leadership. Intel has had the exact opposite and is stuck in the past.
But why would they? There is likely no money to be made.