Intel's next discrete gaming card is a mystery.
    • Big Baby Thor@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      21 days ago

      I think you’re safe. There’s nothing that indicates the drivers and firmware will be left behind. In fact, quite the contrary.

      This article just says the next version of Xe won’t make it to dedicated GPUs. It doesn’t say that support for A380 will be dropped.

      • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
        6·
        21 days ago

        I just meant that I hope they don’t stop making new dedicated cards all together. I’m very impressed with the one I bought. It’s amazing value for the price. I was especially impressed with their upscale tech. It destroys FSR 3.0 and maybe even 4.0. It’s an easy recommendation for someone building a gaming PC for the first time.

  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    21 days ago

    It won’t surprise me if they bow out of GPUs altogether. Intel has been hemorrhaging money for a while now and they made the mistake of thinking they could leverage their monopoly instead of innovating and then both AMD and ARM started eating their lunch. They even committed billions to doing RISC-V, a competing instruction set. (Fun fact: The R in ARM stands for RISC)

    Honestly it won’t surprise me if Intel becomes more like TSMC and just do fab for other companies rather than doing their own R&D in the near future.