Running Four Intel Graphics Cards Under Linux On Ubuntu 26.04 (www.phoronix.com)

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Didn't Intel shitcan this entire line recently? I wanted one and can't find one in the wild.

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

Intel Arc Battlemage is still being sold. It has been leaked, not confirmed by Intel I think (don't quote me on that), that the "Celestial" line of discrete gaming GPUs will be continued, presumably due to cost of memory being very high right now making it difficult to create a card oriented at consumers. There has been no news on whether the "Druid" line of gaming GPUs will be discontinued as well. It looks like workstation cards (like those in the Phoronix article) are unaffected, probably because producing those at a larger scale is more cost-effective in the current market.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

presumably due to cost of memory being very high right now making it difficult to create a card oriented at consumers.

wrong thinking, imo. price below nvidia and amd, give reasonable performance per watt, continue to support open source linux drivers. they would sell at least as well as alchemist and battlemage have.

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Not in terms of selling the card, but in terms of production. The market for Intel discrete gaming GPUs is very small, so the cost to produce the cards isn't as profitable for Intel, especially under the current market. Of course, I do want Intel to make new consumer oriented cards, but the investment needed to produce gaming GPUs could be too high for Intel (note that I'm not an Intel business executive, this is just my guess!)