Arc Discrete GPU Chat With Intel Fellow Tom Petersen – 2.5 Geeks

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, April 01, 2022, 07:51 PM EDT

Intel Graphics Innovation Fellow Tom "TAP" Petersen joined us on our most recent 2.5 Geeks live stream to discuss the company’s just-launched Arc mobile GPUs. TAP is offered up some great insights and lively discussion regarding all things Intel Arc discrete graphics, from performance and key differentiating features to the future of Arc and its market impact. Don’t miss this one! And don’t forget to like and subscribe to the channel...

Show Notes:
06:26 - How Long Has Arc Been In The Works?
09:03 - TAP Looking Back On His Career
12:00 - Differentiating With Deep Link
15:03 - Talking Media And AV1 Encoding
18:18 - Can You Use AV1 With Hyper Encode?
19:30 - Arc Cores, Slices And Stacks
21:58 - What About TMUs and ROPs?
23:05 - Graphics Clocks Explained
29:05 - Arc Launch Strategy Discussion
33:44 - Speed Sync And Smooth Sync
42:50 - Why No HDMI 2.1?
44:11 - Does Arc Have Resizable Bar Support?
44:37 - A Word On Intel Arc Driver Updates
44:55 - Arc Control Discussion
46:04 - XeSS – Games And Comparisons
52:09 - XeSS On Non-Arc GPUs
53:11 - Single-Root IO Virtualization?!?
53:56 - XMX Engines And Matrix Multiplies
56:24 - Power Questions, Gaming On Battery
01:01:01 - Intel Arc Desktop GPU
01:03:54 - Don’t Pause And Pixel Peep Here!
01:04:49 - Some Closing Thoughts

Tags: podcast, webcast, arc, Livestream, 25-geeks, tom-petersen

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com