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I think it's actually the best idea tbh. Nvidia hard largely ignored the budget GPU market and AMD has released laughably bad GPUs in the budget segment. So either you have to buy either some of the worst GPUs that have been released in the history of PCs by going with 6400/6500XT or you have to spend more to get Nvidia. Both are shitty choices, especially for places like China.

So for a new player like Intel, this is easy pickings cause all they need to do is release a GPU that's cheap and has modern features. What Intel needs right now for it's GPUs isn't profit but market share. It needs to put Arc on the map because without market share, game developers will not bother to optimize for your GPU. Them releasing higher end GPUs is a fools errand because Nvidia and AMD has both high end and mid ranged covered, especially as Lovelace is so close. But what Lovelace and RDNA 3 won't have at least until late next year is their budget GPUs. And no, Ampere/RDNA 2 will not go down in price but rather, just get discontinued when their successors come out.

So Intel will essentially have free reign in the budget GPU segment at least until late next year while Nvidia and AMD will battle it out in the high end and mid ranged. So I think it's overall a good plan, just the execution feels like it's lacking. While the hardware looks good and the price is also looking really good, their drivers will make or break Arc.

Intel's Arc will be the third choice for most people but for sub $250 GPUs, they just might be the first choice.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 17 June 2022