The Arc Pro B50 gives me hope that Intel isn’t giving up on GPUs
Intel currently has a zero market share percent of office graphics cards, according to Jon Peddie Research. And it is hardly the only problem of the company – a few years of bad news was crowned by kissing the ring and giving 10% participation in the US government. But the last Arc GPU gave me a tiny ribbon of hope that someone will enter the monopoly of Nvidia.
It is the Arc Pro B50, and before saying anything, yes, he is an industrial GPU not intended for players. But the alternative at low prices at B60 shows that the company has not abandoned Battlemage, the discreet graphic architecture of the second generation of Intel. The $ 350 card with low profile does not require a dedicated power rail, despite some treated tips like PCIe 5. This one fills 16 GB of video memory, 16 10th century and 16 rays tracing units, four less than the B60 in each category and 224 GB / S of memory.
Again, this $ 350 card is not intended for players. He is surely able to play, like surprisingly good consumption cards published at the end of last year. But its objective is for industrial users who wish to make a pile of rendering or calculation of the AI with relatively lower cost and power needs. Unlike B60, it goes to at least certain criticisms such as Hardwareluxx and Igor’s Lab. This means that someone at Intel is interested in achieving this thing for customers.
The RTX 50 cards of the NVIDI RTX 50 series finally come to a point where you can buy one, assuming that you can afford it. But the company is so dominant that AMD has essentially abandoned the upper end of the market, and the offers lower than the brand of 300 USD leaves much to be desired. Almost three years after the start of the first Arc cards, the office GPU market still needs a reshuffle … and Intel still needs something positive to develop.
