Alternative to Amd and Nvidia?

Baldbloke · 14 May 2021 at 07:36

Are there any alternative manufacturers out there?
With compatibility for gaming?

Just an idle thought....

stuartam · 14 May 2021 at 07:42

Intel are coming later in the year from what I’ve read

CuriousTomCat · 14 May 2021 at 08:31

Nvidia bought the competition and refused to release drivers for it.

Grim5 · 14 May 2021 at 08:33

Intel gpu coming at the end of the year

Ultraman1966 · 14 May 2021 at 10:42

Grim5 said:
Intel gpu coming at the end of the year

Is that confirmed officially? I remember rumours like this every year for the past decade (almost).

Curstu · 14 May 2021 at 11:13

Ultraman1966 said:
Is that confirmed officially? I remember rumours like this every year for the past decade (almost).

Moore's Law is dead seems to have afair bit of coverage on these, apparently late 21 is the expected 'launch' at around 3070 performance.

Squink · 14 May 2021 at 11:20

Curstu said:
Moore's Law is dead seems to have afair bit of coverage on these, apparently late 21 is the expected 'launch' at around 3070 performance.

Are Intel really likely to jump in at the same performance levels of last year's flagship cards? It would be good for the market, but seems a little on the optimistic side.

Ultraman1966 · 14 May 2021 at 15:35

Curstu said:
Moore's Law is dead seems to have afair bit of coverage on these, apparently late 21 is the expected 'launch' at around 3070 performance.

I'm crossing my fingers and toes, it really would do us all good to have competition in this area.

Bazooka301 · 14 May 2021 at 15:38

You have intel GPU soon but from the looks of it they focusing on mid to low range for first launch

Martini1991 · 14 May 2021 at 15:45

Squink said:
Are Intel really likely to jump in at the same performance levels of last year's flagship cards? It would be good for the market, but seems a little on the optimistic side.

Why optimistic? 3070 performance a year later than everyone else is the opposite of optimism lol.

ASMB · 14 May 2021 at 16:03

Intel has released a teaser video for a gpu, question is how many can they get into market and when. The market is short of product from nvidia 1650 up so it doesn't have to be powerful to help with the shortage

https://youtu.be/m8L5uqNXlNE

MCFC_ANDY · 14 May 2021 at 18:48

if it has mining abtributes, then it will make no difference, they all go to miners and scalpers, we be no better off, personally i think it be another year if not more till things go back to normal ish msrp

d_brennen · 14 May 2021 at 18:53

Martini1991 said:
Why optimistic? 3070 performance a year later than everyone else is the opposite of optimism lol.

Very optimistic imo. My worry with Intel is they might well just forget their GPU products. I'd be amazed to see driver updates on the same kind of schedule as AMD/Nvidia

Andythe Random · 14 May 2021 at 20:33

d_brennen said:
Very optimistic imo. My worry with Intel is they might well just forget their GPU products. I'd be amazed to see driver updates on the same kind of schedule as AMD/Nvidia

Yup, this is a definite concern.

HangTime · 14 May 2021 at 20:39

3070 performance is super optimistic even a year later. You gotta remember Nvidia and AMD are so far ahead of everyone in the gaming sector that to get something with 3070 performance starting from nothing other than some iGPUs with low end performance would be a MASSIVE achievement. Intel has never, ever been anywhere close to that in the 3d acceleration era. Look at all the other competitors over the years... PowerVR, Matrox, S3D etc - despite some interesting technology none of them got close to the top dogs in NV/3dfx and ATI/AMD.

Christ, 3070 is what, 2080/2080Ti sort of territory? That's mega fast, I can't see them doing it, I think they are more likely to fill a gap in the market for people that want to spend a few hundred quid and get a 1070 type product.
Can they produce good hardware? Well, they have the R&D budget, the track record of hardware production, sure. But can they produce bleeding edge performance drivers to go with it like Nvidia have been honing for the past 20 years? I doubt it.

LOAM · 15 May 2021 at 09:15

I bet that intel trailer was rendered in vray on a Nvidia card

phil-k · 15 May 2021 at 09:20

Intel has seen how much profit the other manufacturers are making and want a bit for themselves

Dontrocktheboat · 15 May 2021 at 10:05

Intel is coming baby ! :cool:

And it's going to cause a huge shake up in the industry.
3070 performance??? Yes pls.

With good RT levels and probably a DLSS equivalent?
Yes pls.

Should put it on par with 6900xt with RT. exciting times.

Hardware will be good but can the drivers be good? That's the question.

Harlequin · 15 May 2021 at 10:17

A 6900XT isnt on par with a 3070 lol - it beats a 3090 at times....

As this is Intel`s first attempt, i can only see it `matching` a 3070 in 1 use and be at 3060 or belwo performance for everything else. Low to mid range at best. Just as AMD did with RDNA 1.

varkanoid · 15 May 2021 at 16:11

Dontrocktheboat said:
Intel is coming baby !

And it's going to cause a huge shake up in the industry.
3070 performance??? Yes pls.

With good RT levels and probably a DLSS equivalent?
Yes pls.

Should put it on par with 6900xt with RT. exciting times.

Hardware will be good but can the drivers be good? That's the question.

Then you wake up and realise you were in the shower for the last 6 months.