Rajini hitovi se nastavljaju, a za razliku od njemačkih recenzija, TechPowerUp cijelu stvar prezentira kao da je Intel maleni startup koji se tek uči i ovo je zapravo jako ogroman korak prema naprijed, posebice u usporedbi s Radeon i GeForce konkurencijom koja ima desetljeća iskustva.
Jedini problem s ARC GPU rješenjma je u tome da se svi nadolazeći modeli baziraju na istoj Xe arhitekturi, a ako Raja Koduri na neku ludu foru i uspije dovesti drivere u polufunkcionalno stanje, to i dalje ne mijenja činjenicu da AMD i nVidia već imaju spremne RX 7000 i RTX 4000 modele, dok ARC GPU lovi lanjski snijeg lanjskog snijega mučeći se s RX 6400 i GTX 1650 rješenjima.
Citiraj:
Intel ARC A380 review - runs fine on AMD Ryzen
Citiraj:
Intel is not sampling this card to the press, and it's only available for purchase in China—probably because Intel thinks the Chinese buyers aren't as critical of their purchases as the ones in the West. I also feel that Intel was under pressure from shareholders to finally start shipping their first graphics card to justify the billions spent in research and development. Personally my thoughts are that trying to hide the product from reviewers is the wrong strategy, it just makes things more complicated for everyone involved, including Intel, because they have no way to control things and (try to) influence the narrative in addition to inducing doubts in everyone's minds as to what is wrong with the product.
To say that not everything is smooth sailing with Intel Arc at this time would be an understatement. The official "stable" 101.1743 driver from Intel's website is everything but! I encountered numerous bugs including bluescreens, corrupted desktop after startup, random systems hangs, system getting stuck during shutdown sequences, and more—very frustrating issues that made me ask myself "WTF? Has anybody even tested this driver once?". A couple of times I had to replace the Intel card with an nVidia card so that Windows would actually boot—because the Intel driver can no longer load and that kept breaking things—so I could manually wipe the Intel driver and pray that a new driver install would work better. In order to work around some other issues, I had to connect through Remote Desktop because the Arc card wouldn't send any output to my monitor (most often when no driver installed).
Intel contracted TSMC to fabricate their new GPU, because TSMC is the only company in the world that has a currently working 6 nanometer production process for desktop-class processors. This hints that the Intel chip design using a brand-new 6 nm process can barely compete with the older process nodes used by AMD and NVIDIA, but you have to consider that AMD and NVIDIA have spent over a decade and billions of dollars optimizing their architectures for energy efficiency given that is the only way to scale up now.
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Izvor: TechPowerUp
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