12GB VRAM in 2024 just seems like a misstep. Intel isn’t alone in that, but it’s really annoying they didn’t just drop at least another 4GB in there, considering the uplift in attractiveness it would have given this card.
The industry as a whole has really dragged ass on VRAM. Obviously it keeps their margins higher, but for a card targeting anything over 1080, 16GB should be mandatory.
Hell, with 8GB you can run out of VRAM even on 1080, depending on what you play (e.g. flight sims).
I doubt it would cost them a ton either, and it would be a great marketing tactic. In fact, they could pair it w/ a release of their own LLM that’s tuned to run on those cards. It wouldn’t get their foot in the commercial AI space, but it could get your average gamer interested in playing with it.
I doubt they will. Intel has proven to be incompetent at taking advantage of opportunities. They missed:
mobile revolution - waited to see if the iPhone would pan out
GPU - completely missed the crypto mining boom and COVID supply crunch
AI - nothing on the market
They need a compelling GPU since the market is moving away from CPUs as the high margin product in a PC and the datacenter. If they produced an AI compatible chip at reasonable prices, they could get real world testing before hey launch something for datacenters. But no, it seems like they’re content missing this boat too, even when the price of admission is only a higher memory SKU…
12GB VRAM in 2024 just seems like a misstep. Intel isn’t alone in that, but it’s really annoying they didn’t just drop at least another 4GB in there, considering the uplift in attractiveness it would have given this card.
And here I am with 8GBs in 2024 lol
The industry as a whole has really dragged ass on VRAM. Obviously it keeps their margins higher, but for a card targeting anything over 1080, 16GB should be mandatory.
Hell, with 8GB you can run out of VRAM even on 1080, depending on what you play (e.g. flight sims).
That’s why I avoided the 4060s and stuck to my 1060 for now
I doubt it would cost them a ton either, and it would be a great marketing tactic. In fact, they could pair it w/ a release of their own LLM that’s tuned to run on those cards. It wouldn’t get their foot in the commercial AI space, but it could get your average gamer interested in playing with it.
It wouldn’t cost much, but this way they can release a “pro” card with double the vram for 5x the price.
I doubt they will. Intel has proven to be incompetent at taking advantage of opportunities. They missed:
They need a compelling GPU since the market is moving away from CPUs as the high margin product in a PC and the datacenter. If they produced an AI compatible chip at reasonable prices, they could get real world testing before hey launch something for datacenters. But no, it seems like they’re content missing this boat too, even when the price of admission is only a higher memory SKU…