Graphics Cards - Page 124

Well, we now know that MSI isn't the AIB partner that pulled out of making custom Intel Arc graphics cards, as the company has just announced its new gaming PC that features the MSI Intel Arc A380 6G graphics card.

MSI's upcoming Intel Arc A380 6G graphics card is a little different to the ASRock and GUNNIR Intel Arc A380 graphics cards, where MSI is using Intel's own reference design: no factory overclocking, and a conservative 75W TDP. GPU clocks on the MSI Intel Arc A380 6G are at 2000MHz, with 6GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 15.5Gbps.

You won't be able to buy MSI's new Intel Arc A380 6G graphics card anywhere yet, as it's only available inside of the MSI pre-built PC that is sold exclusively through Chinese etailer JD.com. Inside of said MSI system you'll find an H510M or H610M Bomber motherboard, with the cheaper model featuring the Intel Core i3-10105F while the slightly higher-end Core i5-10400F and Core i5-12400F processors are used. You'll be looking at $532 up to $650 for the pre-built MSI gaming PC.

We've been hearing all sorts of bad news about Intel's new Arc GPUs where I've been reporting on news that Intel would outright cancel their Arc GPUs altogether over how bad it has gotten, and now Intel has reportedly lost their first AIB.

The first AIB to stop production of custom Intel Arc GPUs has reportedly made history, becoming the first AIB to pull out of Intel's new Arc GPUs before they even really began. The news is coming from Igor Wallossek at Igor's Lab, who reports that the first of the big board partners have "stopped the production of Intel cards completely" which his sources say are "due to quality concerns".

Igor reports: "At least one of the big board partners has even stopped the production of Intel cards completely ("due to quality concerns"), as I could find out yesterday and today. [...] Other board partners have at least already completely capped their marketing activities, and it does not currently look as if there will be any real launch offensives from the board partners in the time window I mentioned between August 5, 2022 and September 29, 2022. What will really arrive on the market (as retail) will be seen in the next few weeks. From the customer's point of view, I can only hope for the best, I alone lack faith".

Intel itself has confirmed it will be showing off its very first Arc GPU for workstation PCs at SIGGRAPH 2022 next week.

The news is coming directly from Intel's own website, where it says "Intel will be showing our just announced Intel ARC Pro graphics workstation GPUs running Trimble, Inc's Sketchup with D5 renderer to seamlessly provide beautifully rendered architectural images with hardware accelerated Raytracing and hardware assisted AI (XeSS). An entry-level workstation segment first providing hardware accelerated ray tracing and AI".

Hopefully, this means we'll get some more demos and details on Intel XeSS technology, but if we do it will be more professional-based... not for gaming, unfortunately. Still, it's good to see that Intel will be showcasing workstation Arc GPUs at SIGGRAPH 2022 starting Monday.

NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 4090 is "still planned" for an October launch, according to the very latest from leaker Moore's Law is Dead.

In his latest video, Tom at Moore's Law is Dead explains that his sources teased that NVIDIA has "begun sending out embargo details to their partners this week that specifically denotes a plan to launch in October, but final dates are not decided yet". Another source added that the "RTX 4090 (at least) is still planned to launch in October".

NVIDIA's next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU architecture will debut with the GeForce RTX 4090, but we will also see the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4070 shortly after. The question has been whether the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 would launch this year, or whether NVIDIA debuts the new monster GeForce RTX 4090 -- in 450W form at first, a 600W+ SKU is reportedly coming after AMD drops Navi 31 -- and leaves it at that.

ASRock has just launched its new custom Intel Arc A380 Challenger ITX graphics card, the second custom Arc A380 graphics card to be launched after GUNNIR.

The new ASRock Intel Arc A380 Challenger ITX graphics card is a small dual-slot, single-fan, single 8-pin PCIe power connector graphics card. Inside, the Arc A380 has the full ACM-G11 GPU on the TSMC 6nm process node with 8 Xe-Cores or 1024 ALUs, with a max GPU clock of 2450MHz. 6GB of GDDR6 is here at 15.5Gbps on a 96-bit memory bus that pumps 186GB/sec of memory bandwidth, with a 92W TBP.

ASRock is going with a more simple, not super-gamer design which is fitting for the lower-end GPU. The smaller ITX form factor is beautiful, with a tiny card being perfect for a tiny PC. The single-fan supports 0dB technology, meaning that you won't hear the fan most of the time (especially for productivity work and light loads).

NVIDIA's new Ada Lovelace GPU architecture is ramping up considerably, and so too are the leaks with news on the "full-fat AD104" GPU with 7680 CUDA cores.

The new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be the graphics card that the "full-fat AD104" GPU will be powering, with 12GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 21Gbps, according to leaker "kopite7kimi". The leaker adds that the performance of the full-fat AD104 GPU will "easily match" the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.

Rewinding the leaks back to March 2022, Moore's Law is Dead teased that the AD103-based GeForce RTX 4070 "should offer another 10-30% performance over the current flagship RTX 3090". Remember, that was before NVIDIA unleashed the RTX 3090 Ti. So we should expect to see the AD103-based RTX 4070 beating the RTX 3090, while the "full-fat AD104" based RTX 4070 Ti beating the RTX 3090 Ti.

Intel's new Arc A380 graphics card is kinda here, if you're in China... or spending oodles of money and going through the headache of getting a card across the border. Well, if you do for whatever reason... Bykski has a new water block for the Arc A380.

The new Bykski I-GNA380-X GPU BLOCK is a custom water block for the GUNNIR Arc A380 Photon OC graphics card, which is still mysterious: it's the first and only desktop Arc GPU for sale, and we don't know if the PCB that GUNNIR is using is a full custom design, or not. It's most likely an Intel reference design, so we don't know if you buy the Bykski I-GNA380-X GPU BLOCK if it'll fit on any other Arc A380 that's not from GUNNIR.

If you want a nice-and-tight single-slot GUNNIR Arc A380 Photon OC graphics card, the Bykski I-GNA380-X GPU BLOCK is what you want. Inside, the GUNNIR Arc A380 Photon OC graphics card has the Intel ACM-G11 GPU, 6GB of GDDR6 memory, a single 8-pin PCIe power connector that uses up to 92W of power. The reference Intel Arc A380 design has a 75W TDP, just FYI.

Intel's new Arc A-series desktop GPUs launched without even a whimper, with the new GPUs being an exclusive to China for many months... but it appears AIB partners are now getting some of that Arc silicon to make entry-level graphics cards for some upcoming pre-built PCs.

GUNNIR started it all with their custom Arc A380 Photon OC 6G graphics card, then ASRock, and now we have ASUS and MSI leaping into the game. The Intel Arc A380 cards from ASUS and MSI comes from leaker "momomo_us" on Twitter, where MSI lists its new PC with an Intel Core i5-12400 or Core i5-12400F for the lower-end SKU, while the higher-end system has an Intel Core i7-12700 or Core i7-12700F processor.

These systems can be configured with 3 different GPUs: a custom MSI GeForce GTX 1650, an MSI GeForce GT 1030, or Intel DG2 A380 or Intel DG2 A310 graphics card. We should expect to see 4GB of VRAM on each of the Arc A380 and Arc A310 graphics cards, but there's no details on that with MSI's upcoming PC.

NVIDIA's next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU architecture should be detailed in the coming weeks, with the GeForce RTX 4090 expected to launch first and be a powerhouse... but the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4070 graphics cards will follow, and now we have some early 3DMark performance estimates.

The upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4070 graphics cards have had their 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme graphics scores revealed by leaker "kopite7kimi". The leaker says that the GeForce RTX 4080 has 15,000+ points in TimeSpy Extreme, while the GeForce RTX 4070 will have 10,000+ points in TimeSpy Extreme.

These scores are based on the previously known specs of the cards, with the GeForce RTX 4080 packing the AD103 GPU and 10240 CUDA cores, while the GeForce RTX 4070 is based on the AD104 GPU and 7168 CUDA cores.

AMD's next-gen Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards will reportedly have 20Gbps memory bandwidth, while the 7x50 XT refresh will bump those numbers up again.

The next-gen RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7900 series is in the news from leaker "Greymon55" on Twitter, who said, "7900 series is 20Gbps, I don't know about the rest" when pressed by VideoCardz about "anything on individual SKU specs" of the upcoming Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards.

The leaker says that AMD will be launching its new Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards -- not just the Radeon RX 7900 series to be specific -- in November. We were already kinda expecting that because AMD is about to unleash its new Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 series CPUs... and in the weeks after that, we'll get the RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs... and we ALL can't wait.

I'm sure that by now you've heard about the mess that is the Intel Arc GPU launch, and that's because it's been such a disaster. Apart from YouTubers throwing up sponsored videos that only put the graphics cards in a good light, there's been no traditional tech press covering Intel Arc graphics cards, since they're still a China exclusive.

We've had a few European reviewers get their hands-on Intel Arc, likening Intel's big new GPU as "playing drunk, in a minefield". That same minefield must be where Intel GPU marketing plans their big launch, where leaker Moore's Law is Dead leaked that Intel is pulling back on its huge global launch of Arc for a much more watered-down positive-vibes-only round with YouTubers and select tech press.

But now... Intel Arc desktop GPUs will have a staggered launch according to Igor from Igor's Lab, who reports that Intel has "now internally decided on a narrower time frame" and that if they stick to this timeframe we should expect Intel Arc desktop GPUs to launch between August 5, and September 29.

I wouldn't want to be on the Intel GPU marketing team right now, or anywhere at Intel for that matter as it seems to be filled with issues... but the Intel Arc GPUs have been an utter disaster, and no matter how much sticky tape that Intel puts on it, it's not going to be good.

A new leaked internal roadmap from Intel sourced by Moore's Law is Dead shows that Intel had originally planned to have 4 different Arc graphics cards: Arc A770, Arc A750, Arc A580, Arc A380 to system integrators by... well... now, the end of July. But no OEMs that manufacture these graphics cards, or the system integrators that will have Arc GPUs inside, have announced custom Arc graphics cards or Arc GPU-powered PCs.

Intel could be saying one thing about Arc internally, and externally... we don't know, but it sounds like that is happening. Intel GPU marketing is a mess right now, with them out there being confident -- sending Ryan Shrout and Tom Peterson out to YouTubers -- meanwhile, it's a dumpster fire around them.

Intel is truly struggling with its GPU marketing team... with Arc being a total DOA POS, and now MLID is coming out for their throat... and rightfully so. I've been pushing against Intel and this "marketing" that htey're going, and it seems that I'm not the only one. Check out Tom's latest video, and a bunch of his comments below:

It looks like Intel could have a major "fundamental hardware flaw" inside of the Arc Alchemist GPU scheduler, which is causing issues (amongst the laundry list of things wrong with the Intel Arc GPU). Tom explains: "Igor has started to find, and from what I'm hearing behind the scenes... there's almost certainly a fundamental hardware flaw in the scheduler of Alchemist".

Tom continued: "Can they make things better... can there be mitigations in drivers that they will improve over time... yes... but it's never going to be perfect. It's already having problems above 90FPS consistently at super low resolutions with a weak card... how are they going to get a high-end card to game above 144Hz".

I don't think you could be in the dark about how much of a shit show the Intel Arc GPU has been so far, but I've been pretty damn critical of it... it deserves no defense, until Intel has proven itself in the GPU market, and it looks like they might not even get a chance.

In his latest video, Tom at Moore's Law is Dead says that Intel's new Arc Alchemist desktop GPUs could actually end up being cancelled and that they "may end up a waste of sand". I guess being a waste of sand for Intel is better than AIB partners telling NVIDIA to "pound sand" as it seems sand is in the headlines a lot when it comes to GPU rumors lately.

Tom said: "Intel may cancel Arc before Battlemage is even launched".

NVNDIA has announced it will be hosting a "Special Address" at SIGGRAPH 2022 in just over a weeks time.

The company announced its special address will give us a glimpse into the future of AI-infused virtual worlds, where NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and other NVIDIA senior leadership will appear for the special address on August 9. The next day, NVIDIA will talk more about the Omniverse, GTC, and more.

On August 9, the "Special Address" from NVIDIA won't see a next-gen GPU revealed like most people expect to see. Rather, we'll see NVIDIA kick off its Special Address between 9AM and 10AM on August 9, while starting at 10AM there's "The Future of Extended Reality: How Immersion Will Change Everything" and after that at 11AM we have "Buidling on NVDiffrec and Instant NeRT for production-ready free-viewpoint video of people and places".

Intel has its first graphics card since the Intel i740 and its benchmarking it with indoor environments of Death Stranding, which I'd say was a weird flex but not after reviewers calling the Intel Arc A380 graphics card like "sitting in a minefield, playing drunk".

Anyway, GPU marketing dude of Intel, Ryan Shrout, posted a new article and video on the official Intel Arc website and Intel YouTube channel. In the video, Shrout is using the Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition graphics card with VRR (Variable Refresh Rate), HDR (High Dynamic Range) and HDMI 2.1 technologies.

Shrout tested an Intel-marketed Death Stranding with indoor environments, where it said it was running at 80-100FPS. I don't know if you'd want to be testing that particular game, in that particular way, for your first graphics card since the Intel i740, but that's where we are here in July 2022. I get it, but there are far better games and tests that could've been run... Death Stranding and indoor environments? Aight.

AFOX is teasing both AMD's next-gen RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards, and NVIDIA's next-gen Ada Lovelace-based GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards, registering a laundry list filled with graphics cards to the EEC.

The company makes a bunch of PC hardware including graphics cards, motherboards, SSDs and PSUs but man, AFOX is truly preparing for a bloody lot of next-gen graphics cards. AFOX has submissions for the new flagship AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti and GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards.

But it didn't stop there, it has filed submissions to the EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) regulatory office for what seems like every possible model of next-gen graphics cards that both AMD and NVIDIA will be unleashing in the coming months. From the very top of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT down to the Radeon RX 7500, and the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti down to the GeForce RTX 4050.

NVIDIA is boxing up its next-gen GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs it seems, as we're now hearing that a Chinese GPU supplier is expecting their first batches of Ada Lovelace GPUs very, very soon.

In a recent PRO Hi-Tech tech news roundup, Ilya Korneychuk said that their Chinese GPU supplier is expecting to receive their first batch of GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs in less than a month. In some Google-powered translation from Russian, he explained: "our graphics card supplier in China has told us that it will receive the first batch of RTX 4000s in less than a month".

Pulling this all together: the last we heard is from a leaker that said that NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 4090 was actually really close, in that "we will see her soon". Before that, we heard that NVIDIA would be launching its higher-end GeForce RTX 4090 first in August, and then the GeForce RTX 4080 in September, and the GeForce RTX 4070 after that.

Innosilicon is going to unveil its next-gen Fantasy 2 graphics card family on August 3, with the Chinese GPU maker teasing its announcement ahead of the reveal.

The new Innosilicon Fantasy 2 graphics cards will act as the successor to the Fantasy No.1 series, where the previous Type-A graphics card offering 5 TFLOPs of compute performance, while the Type-B card was a dual-GPU affair offering 10 TFLOPs of compute performance.

We should see the new Innosilicon Fantasy 2 GPUs based on Imagination's IMG BXT architecture, where the Chinese GPU company is making GPU solutions for high-performance tasks in cloud computing. Innosilicon had goals of reaching similar performance to NVIDIA's mid-range GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card... but didn't compute with the gaming performance of the RTX 3060.

NVIDIA will be launching its next-gen GeForce RTX 4090 in the coming months, with a new rumor that the company will be launching a 450W and 600W variant of the GPU.

Not only that, but NVIDIA will reportedly be making its new GeForce RTX 4090 cheaper... yes, cheaper... than NVIDIA's current flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card. The rumor we're discussing right now is coming from the Chiphell forums, stating that the GeForce RTX 4090 will be the only next-gen GPU that we see this year.

The rumor continues that NVIDIA might not have the other GeForce RTX 40 series SKUs out until Q1 2023, which would be a very interesting way of Ada Lovelace being rolled out. But why, and how would that happen? Well, I've been reporting from leaker Tom @ Moore's Law is Dead that AIB partners told NVIDIA to "go pound sand" over their warehouses filled with Ampere and Turing GPU stock. The AIB source said, "we're even willing to risk Lovelace allocation if they threaten us".