Intel has now officially confirmed that they will release a discrete GPU that will be available in 2020. While we already knew they were planning it, actually giving it a date makes it that little bit more real.
Their Twitter post sent out earlier simply said this:
Intel's first discrete GPU coming in 2020: https://intel.ly/2ylFwrl
The link was to an older article (the one we covered before), but there's also this article from MarketWatch (Intel retweeted it, so it's legitimate) which confirms that Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, also said so during an analyst event last week. From the article:
Intel did not go into detail about what performance level or target market this first discrete GPU solution might address, but Intel’s executive vice president of the data center group, Navin Shenoy, confirmed that the company’s strategy will include solutions for data center segments (think AI, machine learning) along with client (think gaming, professional development).
It's going to be a fun time for PC enthusiasts. With the only players currently being NVIDIA and AMD, this could firmly shake up the market resulting in even more competition and hopefully lower prices too.
Hopefully Intel will stick with their open source drivers for it, like they do for their integrated graphics. Would be a huge shame if they didn't.
What are your thoughts?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Comandante Ñoñardo Jun 13, 2018
Here in Argentina, an EVGA GTX 1060 6GB is about 425 U$D.. At this moment, 1U$D is about 26.33 AR$.
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Just wonder how powerful , reliable and costly the thing will be.
Intel is dominated on server market. Almost all server in this world using open source system. So, I'm 100% sure Intel will ensure all their GPUs will be run on open source platform by provide necessary code, driver, etc., so it's also good news for *BSD too which know have dreadful GPU support AFAIK. Which means AMD (and possibly nVidia) will also doing same to compete with Intel. I hope....
One particular thing is very interesting for me. Intel plan to released it in 2020. Windows 7 EOL is 2020.
Hmm......
p/s: I hope Intel and AMD working together to make x86 chipset for mobile devices/smartphones. I'm totally dislike all ARM chipmakers' doing/done right now!
Last edited by DMJC on 13 June 2018 at 10:10 pm UTC
Thanks to a court ruling on their anticompetitive practices against AMD, they have to maintain interoperability with modern GPUs(aka. PCI-E compatibility) for 10 years. These 10 years are about to expire in early 2020s and I'll be surprised if they don't try to push for chips that only fit on motherboards that can't use PCI-E, but will happiliy fit an Intel dGPU...
But hopefully the market won't let them get away with it
Honestly Intel's track record in the discrete GPU game is not a good one.Isn't the point of this announcement that they're actually releasing their first proper discrete chip? Surely there's no track record to speak of. Not that I expect their first offering to truly compete with the best of AMD or Nvidia. Competition even at the lower end of the spectrum can only be a good thing.
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