Intel to reportedly host a GPU conference in December to discuss "Arctic Sound"

[WYP]

Intel to reportedly host a GPU conference in December to discuss "Arctic Sound"

Arctic Sound is expected to release in 2020.



Read more about Intel's rumoured GPU-centric technology conference.

 

[looz]

I've got high hopes for this one, finally a GPU from a company which is both Linux friendly and competent, since current manufacturers are either or. :lol:

 

[Warchild]

I've got high hopes for this one, finally a GPU from a company which is both Linux friendly and competent, since current manufacturers are either or. :lol:

Given how they price gouge their current CPU market. What do you think will happen with GPU?

I see competition arising, but overall everything is going to go up not down. Market needs to be re evaluated. Has to be brought down somehow.

Even AMD who are better with price v performance were too outrageous on their cards e.g. Fury. Vega has been ok but nothing great in cost really. Their pricing is lower than nvidia but not in the margin we want. I think even AMD are taking advantage of Nvidia high prices, allowing them to raise their own, but appear to be still good value.

 

[looz]

Well the segment where AMD is competitive (1060 / rx 580) the prices aren't too bad.


But Vega is quite disappointing due to massive power draw and even then it manages to only compete with 1070 ti.


If Intel manages to challenge Nvidia's high end cards, of course there will be a price war to bring high end prices down.

 

[AlienALX]

I can't see Intel beating AMD or even Nvidia on price so they must be expecting sales based on their namesake alone. Which could turn out to be very risky, given they are a total noob in this sector.

It's still nice to see though, and about bloody time too.

 

[Warchild]

Well the segment where AMD is competitive (1060 / rx 580) the prices aren't too bad.


But Vega is quite disappointing due to massive power draw and even then it manages to only compete with 1070 ti.


If Intel manages to challenge Nvidia's high end cards, of course there will be a price war to bring high end prices down.

I honestly don't believe that will happen. I just see both intel and Nvidia matching the prices similarly. The buying point for Intel will be "ours is better for the same price". We know their greed, we know Ngreedia marketting ploys.. If Intel fail to match Nvidia, then they will start targetting AMD competition. Either way, I really don't see prices falling.

Look at Mobo Market with all the brands fighting for our business. It's still too high. All this competition and yet they are all priced the same level, with exception of ASUS going OTT.

 

[Dicehunter]

Well the segment where AMD is competitive (1060 / rx 580) the prices aren't too bad.

But Vega is quite disappointing due to massive power draw and even then it manages to only compete with 1070 ti.

If Intel manages to challenge Nvidia's high end cards, of course there will be a price war to bring high end prices down.

Depends on the game, Forza Horizon 4 at 1440P max settings the Vega 64 is 2 FPS behind a 1080 Ti, All comes down to devs optimising for the hardware and most devs only really optimise for Nvidia and build their games on Nvidia hardware.

 

[grec]

Going from some recent products, Koduri's experience, and their targets of AI & ML presumably this is going to be a HBM based part. While we can assume the architecture is designed to scale from integrated graphics to HBM-based discrete cards (Remind anyone of Vega?) I think they're much more likely to target enterprise & prosumer first with both SKUs and driver development with regards to the discrete cards. Gaming cards aren't just lower margin, but good drivers today, especially with DX12 & Vulkan titles, requires a lot of talented staff dedicated to communicating with an assortment of engine & game designers to ensure both the game code and drivers handle the interaction correctly(Intel has improved somewhat over the years with their iGPU drivers but given they havn't updated their iGPU arch for a fair few years now it's not like there's much they can run at the moment anyway, though Hades Canyon is their practice run for that I guess). It'll certainly be a target but I'd assume they put at least 6 months between the first cards and any gaming-specific(IE consumer tier pricing with all the enterprise features fused off and shorter HBM stacks) cards.