I have seen some of the past posts about Intel ARC driver bugs with DeepPrime processing, but those seem to be fixed. I don’t see any recent benchmarking in the DeepPrime GoogleSheets.
Does anyone have recent experience with Intel ARC GPU acceleration processing with DeepPrime or DeepPrime XD? I realize that a dedicated Nvidia card would be better. But I am wondering how far the Intel ARC will help in a laptop I am considering purchasing.
I would wait for the next generation of Arc GPUs.
Follow-ons will be based on an improved Xe2/DG2 architecture. Battlemage will replace the current Alchemist GPUs with Celestial and Druid (both Xe3) following that.
Each generation of the Xe hardware is supposed to be a 2x-4x improvement on the previous.
Battlemage for desktop will ship soon on LunarLake. The mobile/integrated GPU parts at the end of 2024.
The current generation (Xe1) is hampered by an internal design that left out a number of critical yet very basic floating maths functions that have to be emulated (slowly, imperfectly) in the software/drivers.
Thanks Sparky2006 for your thoughts. Do we have any comparative performance data on the current Alchemist generation ARC GPU’s? Hopefully the next generation will be even better.
According to PassMark Software - Video Card Benchmarks - GPU Compute Video Cards and PassMark Software - Video Card (GPU) Benchmarks - High End Video Cards , NVIDIA RTX 4060 and Intel Arc A770 cost about $300 each and RTX is about 1.5 times faster than Arc at twice lower max. power dissipation (115W vs 225W). Probably there is some correlation with DeepPRIME performance but that’s just a guess.
EDIT: For laptop versions of 4060 and A770, the performance gap is similar to desktop versions.