Broken Silicon 163: Intel's Alchemist Problems: Bad Drivers or Hardware Flaw? Is Battlemage Doomed?
Added 2022-07-25 20:01:38 +0000 UTCBryan Heemskerk, Art Director at Massive Damage, joins to dissect ARC problems and upcoming GPUs.
0:00 Who is Bryan?
2:51 Is GPU scarcity still an issue for developers?
9:50 The importance of Stability & Frametimes
21:57 Will Alchemist age like AMD Vega?
24:14 Intel had a decade to perfect their drivers – Why are they so bad?
34:07 Intel’s Xe Odyssey – Going from a “1000w 2080 Ti” to a “225w 3060 Ti”
45:05 Is DirectX 12 Support actually an issue? Will Devs optimize for Alchemist?
58:35 What went wrong with Alchemist?
1:20:20 Does Alchemist have a Fundamental Hardware Flaw?
1:35:26 Is Battlemage doomed if Alchemist fails?
1:59:32 AMD RDNA 3 & Nvidia Lovelace – How are developers preparing?
Follow Bryan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bryanheemskerk?lang=en
Bryan is the Art Director at Massive Damage, Inc.: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-heemskerk-a111b351/
Previous Bryan Episode: https://youtu.be/Fj-oW-FKBmQ
Important Review looking at ARC's issues: https://www.igorslab.de/en/intel-arc-a380-6gb-in-test-gunnir-photon-total-benchmarks-detail-analysis-and-extensive-teardown/4/
Roundup of Reviewers Stating Issues: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-a380-discrete-gpu-reviews-its-like-living-in-the-middle-of-a-minefield
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/arc-a380.c3913
Intel has over 120K Employees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel
AMD has over 15K Employees: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMD/amd/number-of-employees
Emergency Broken Silicon 35.5 discussing AMD’s Driver Problems: https://youtu.be/IjI6Hkg0g7g
Comments
WHAT THE FUCK TOM LMAO "Washmash NL asks is this Vega all over again?"
Wasmachineman_NL
2022-07-25 21:39:11 +0000 UTC
