| Captain_Yuri said: It is Nvidia and they have always be shady and has done plenty of anti-competitive things in the past so it wouldn't surprise me if it was legit. The only reason anyone puts up with it is cause buying Radeon doesn't feel like enough of an upgrade compared to a similarly priced Nvidia card. Intel if they get rolling is a bigger treat to Nvidia than Radeon will ever be. Outside of Raster, Radeon has been pathetic to say the least but Intel has not only shown they can keep up with Nvidia is a lot of areas, they are willing to undercut them significantly while doing so. Intels QuickSync has always been an overlooked feature but even on their potato iGPUs, it would allow them to keep up with Nvidia's dGPUs in video encoding/decoding. Intels XeSS is generally seen as being better than FSR but still not quite up to par with DLSS but the fact that it is Ai accelerated for a first gen product shows promise. And their Ray Tracing is also great. Their drivers are the biggest kneecap but they have improved massively since launch. So if Intel can get their shit together, they can provide a full CPU+GPU solution than Nvidia simply can't and potentially without needing to skimp out on features that people would want. |
Yeah we've seen them doing in the past with Geforce Partner Program like someone said before. Some really unsavory things going behind the scenes. Its almost as bad as video game publishers buying out content from developers and blocking them.
Think you may be right as in Arc is already quite strong as far as Raytracing goes and if there is marked an improvement with Battlemage, plus them putting on a bigger die.. it could be quite competitive with current gen higher end cards. And we've seen how agressive they are willing to go as pricing goes. They just need to sort out drivers, because though they have improved its still a little unstable - from what I've seen online. But yeah they've come a long way since launch.
And maybe part of why (if true), Nvidia is taking proactive steps to make it harder for upstarters like Intel in the DGPU space to get a foot in the market. I'd like a third player like Intel to break up the duopoly that Nvidia and AMD hold and especially Nvidia. But yeah, going to be a very steep hill to climb for Intel tbh. But I'm still rooting for them as more competition means less shennagigans from both AMD and Nvidia. Which hopefully leads more innovation and ofc better prices.
Last edited by hinch - on 07 July 2023
