Technology

Seems like a decent card, but here are my issues:

• 12 GB RAM - not quite enough to play w/ LLMs
• a little better than my 6650 XT, but not amazingly so
• $250 - a little better than RX 7600 and RTX 4060 I guess? Probably?

If it offered more RAM (16GB or ideally 24GB) and stayed under $300, I'd be very interested because it opens up LLMs for me. Or if it had a bit better performance than my current GPU, and again stayed under $300 (any meaningful step-up is $350+ from AMD or Nvidia).

But this is just another low to mid-range card, so I guess it would be interesting for new PC builds, but not really an interesting upgrade option. So, pretty big meh to me. I guess I'll check out independent benchmarks in case there's something there. I am considering building a PC for my kids using old parts, so I might get this instead of reusing my old GTX 960, the board I'd use only has PCIe 3.0, so I worry performance would suffer and the GTX 960 may be a better stop-gap.

Still weird there's no BYO-RAM cards. They'd suffer in terms of performance, but... possibly not as much as you'd think. Modern GPU caching is all about waiting. Cache miss? Send request, switch context, come back later.

The general solution is making integrated graphics not suck. Oh sorry, the ten-dollar term is "heterogeneous compute." Multi-architecture parallelism, the way of the future! And also the Xbox 360.

Using ML upscaling does not qualify it as a 1440p card... what a poor take.

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Although still behind AMD and NVIDIA on the performance front, from a design standpoint Intel is bringing their A game. The black limited edition card looks so slick.

What's the chance of there being an B780? Rumors suggested its canceled... And they appear to be true?