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163. Intel's Alchemist Problems: Bad Drivers or Hardware Flaw? Is Battlemage Doomed?

163. Intel's Alchemist Problems: Bad Drivers or Hardware Flaw? Is Battlemage Doomed?

Episode 163 Published 3 years, 8 months ago
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Bryan Heemskerk, Art Director at Massive Damage, joins to dissect ARC problems and upcoming GPUs.
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0:00 Who is Bryan?
3:12 Is GPU scarcity still an issue for developers?
10:11 The importance of Stability & Frametimes
22:18 Will Alchemist age like AMD Vega?
24:35 Intel had a decade to perfect their drivers – Why are they so bad?
35:45 Intel’s Xe Odyssey – Going from a “1000w 2080 Ti” to a “225w 3060 Ti”
46:44 Is DirectX 12 Support actually an issue? Will Devs bother to optimize for Alchemist?
1:00:14 What went wrong with Alchemist?
1:21:59 Does Alchemist have a Fundamental Hardware Flaw?
1:38:34 Is Battlemage doomed if Alchemist fails?
2:02:40 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://youtu.be/QxbHznw4XEY
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


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