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In what has become the most notorious will-they-or-won't-they saga of the graphics market this year, rumors have yet again revived the idea that Intel will launch the Arc B770 sometime in Q3 or Q4. We first heard whispers of the BMG-G31 GPU way back in July of last year, but then, usually-reliable Intel leaker Jaykihn...
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If you asked us what we would want out of an upgraded Arc B-series ("Battlemage") GPU, it probably wouldn't have been "more video RAM," but that's because we're primarily gamers, not primarily AI researchers. The B580's 12GB of video RAM is more than sufficient for its needs as an entry-level gaming GPU, yet it's...
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Intel's Arc Battlemage GPU is going Pro this month. The Santa Clara chip maker confirmed as much in a post on X, though it stopped short of offering up any concrete specifications or other details, such as availability and pricing. All will be revealed at the Computex event in Taipei, which runs from Monday, May 29...
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Intel is rolling out an updated GPU driver that it claims will deliver double-digit percentage gains in several games on handheld devices running Core Ultra 200V series processors with built-in Arc 140V and 130V graphics. Otherwise known as Lunar Lake, Intel says gaming handhelds like MSI's Claw lineup benefit...
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ASRock Challenger Intel Arc B570: $219 MSRP Intel's even more cost-friendly Arc B570 Battlemage GPU brings strong feature support like XeSS 2 with frame gen and solid 1080p performance. Although, for just $30 more, B580 offers better performance-per-dollar value. Strong Feature Support Solid New Software Superior...
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It's been a consistent refrain even before the "Arc" branding was announced: "Intel is going to exit the GPU market!" For whatever reason, there are certain people who really don't want Intel to be making GPUs, and anytime there is even the smallest hint of bad news for Intel GPUs, this old line comes up again.
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Typically, graphics cards use PCI Express x16 slots. That's a PCIe slot configured with sixteen individual data lanes. These data lanes are physical connections, and that's why an "x16" slot is so long. There's nothing mandating that GPUs have to use x16 slots, though; many GPUs in the past have used x8 or even x4...
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Once upon a time, the idea of gaming on a machine without a discrete graphics card was basically a laughable proposition, at least if you were trying to play anything other than decades-old titles or other light weight games like Peggle (remember that gem?). That time has long past, and now we have an entire class of...
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If you're gearing up to buy a new graphics card, chances are that you're probably hoping and praying that NVIDIA moves the price-to-performance curve with the GeForce RTX 5000 'Blackwell' series. While the GeForce RTX 4000 'Ada Lovelace' GPUs brought cool new features and an extremely efficient architecture to the...
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Are you a FromSoftware fanatic? Do you hang on the end of every word out of Hidetaka Miyazaki's mouth? If so, you won't want to miss the opportunity to snag a very exclusive Elden Ring-branded Arc GPU, courtesy of a collaboration with Chinese GPU vendor Gunnir. To celebrate the release of Elden Ring's major expansion...
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Intel often disseminates slide decks to tech journalists like us, which are packed with information about its upcoming products, but presentations to its partners can often be much more interesting. It appears Intel held one such gathering on Monday in Tokyo for its Japanese partners, outlining its "AI Everywhere"...
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Acer Predator BiFrost Arc A770 OC 16GB: MSRP - $399; Street Price - $319 (As Low As $289) Acer's take on Intel's Arc A770 GPU is the fastest and flashiest Arc card around, and you won't pay a premium for it when it's on-sale -- which is often. Complete Feature Set Solid Performance-per-Dollar Impressive XeSS...
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Ryan Shrout announced he has parted ways with Intel via a post on X. Shrout joined Intel in 2018 as the company's Chief Performance Strategist.
Ryan Shrout is no stranger to tweeting about his departures from previous jobs. He revealed his departure from PC Perspective, of which he was the founder, on Twitter. And...
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Work continues apace on Intel's Arc graphics drivers, but things have gotten to a pretty good state already. The heavily AMD-optimized Starfield notwithstanding, recent games like Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon and Baldur's Gate 3 both worked just fine on launch day, and most other applications we have tested on an...
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Intel's first Arc graphics cards were underwhelming on launch, and if you believed certain sources, the company was going to can the whole project as a result. Of course, that's not how things have played out—Intel has put considerable effort into improving those first Arc graphics cards, to the point that your author...
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Intel's efforts to improve its graphics drivers continue apace. We probably don't have to tell an audience of enthusiasts that Arc launched in a less than ideal state, and that lead to a sub-optimal first impression for the brand. Intel has been working hard ever since to correct course, and its regular driver...
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When Intel originally introduced the Arc graphics card family to us, it was described as including three tiers of cards, just like the company's Core i- family of CPUs originally did. The Arc 3 were to be entry-level GPUs, the Arc 5 were to be mid-range gaming parts, and the Arc 7 were to be performance-class parts...
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Baldur's Gate III has just exited a lengthy early access period, and it already runs well on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. That may be why neither company bothered to release a graphics driver for the game's 1.0 release today. We didn't hear any specific complaints about BG3 on Intel's Arc Alchemist graphics cards, but we bet...
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NVIDIA has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, as it skirts a one-TRILLION-dollar market valuation. While we're fond of the company's products, its corporate behavior has occasionally come under fire, with some of the most high-profile remarks coming from former partner EVGA.
The latest such allegation comes...
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Whatever you think about Intel's Arc graphics cards, you have to acknowledge that the proliferation of advanced upscaling technologies is largely a good thing. XeSS is an upscaler with similar performance to AMD's FSR2 and NVIDIA's DLSS, and it works on any vendor's recent graphics processor, albeit best on Intel's...
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If you follow this stuff as closely as your author here does, you may recall that it was rumored once upon a time that there were actually three Arc GPUs: the ACM-G10 that powers the Arc A770 and A750, the ACM-G11 that drives the A380 and lower-end parts, and then a mysterious ACM-G12. This third chip was rumored to...
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Graphics drivers are critically-important to the experience of using a GPU. When Intel's Arc launched with mediocre-to-poor drivers, that was a real complaint. The nice thing about drivers is that they're software, though, and that means it's easy to fix and replace. Intel's been hard at work on doing just that, with...
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