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1y ago

Intel Launches Arc A580: A $179 Graphics Card for 1080p Gaming

www.anandtech.com Intel Launches Arc A580: A $179 Graphics Card for 1080p Gaming

Intel Launches Arc A580: A $179 Graphics Card for 1080p Gaming

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I hope Intel can get a solid foothold between AMD and Nvidia. There really needs to be more fairly priced competition in the GPU market.

intel is making insane Ws with that pricing
- It's normal pricing if we go back a few years. The prices of nowadays' cards are going to kill PC gaming if they remain so high.
  
  I'm hoping Intel can really compete with AMD and Nvidia and their high end cards with this sort of pricing. should hopefully bring it back down to reasonable levels
- Intel, AMD and Nvidia are for-profit businesses. Their goal is to make money.
  Competition is only a good thing, but that's not enough. Seeing the price ranges of AMD and Nvidia - there is no way Intel wouldn't increase prices.
  
  I mean probably in the future, but for now they are trying to capture a new public, with better prices.

This would have sold really well if they had the sorcery to have done it during peak covid

That power consumption though... The price difference against the 3050 will be eaten up by the electricity bill really fast
- If my math is right, the 50W difference, at my power rate of $0.15/kWh, will take 2666 hours and 40 minutes to make up the $20 difference in price.
  
  In europe that situation will be wildly different. Here in germany you won't get under 0.50$/kWh (edit: more like .30 now) so it's more like 500 to 800 hours
  Edit 2: wow, thanks for the hint! I just halved my prices by switching
  
  That's only one gaming session!

Love the pricing! But why do they have to bundle mandatory telemetry in their installer and graphics utility 😭 I would have made the jump for this if they had an option to install drivers only
- On the Linux side, you get people installing debug builds of drivers, bisecting to identify which commit broke something, doing apitraces, capturing crash dumps and opening bug reports to submit that stuff to driver devs.
  You don't really get that sort of thing on Windows, so the drivers try to do it through telemetry. It's how the devs know which games or hardware configs are crashing and need fixes.
  
  I would if I could.
- Because they're new, they really need that telemetry data to improve arc. And they've clearly been using it cause of how much they've improved since launch
  
  Well said. Can't argue with that.
- Use Linux?
  
  Simulator gear not compatible ☹️. I use Linux on my laptop though 😁

I'm sitting on an aging GTX 970. In no position to do a full new build but I wonder if it is worth taking a chance on one of these at that price point.
- I replaced mine with a 275€ 6650xt about a year ago. Still really happy with the decision.

Like medium 1080p or ultra 1080p?
- Yes

Yeah, but how is it for older games? Because last I looked there were games that wouldn't even run on it.
I'd love to see Intel compete properly but AMD/ATI and nVidia have been fixing broken games at the driver level for decades now, and I doubt even Intel can catch up with that.
- Old games have always worked if you just use dxvk

Do they have a 1440p card yet?
- Isnt that prety much what the 16gb a770 is.
  
  I have a A770 and run 1440p ultra wide. Works great. Very happy with the card, particularly now that you can disable their software stuff.
  
  I dunno, I hadn’t looked into it, but I’ll have a look now

Oh, I wish it was launched a year ago.

When they say energy crisis do they mean we need another million dollar mansion in Hawaii crisis? Or is there a legitimate energy crisis?
- I mean, climate change is kind of a global energy crisis. But this is just to buy new mansions and jets.

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