Panther Lake and Nova Lake laptops will return to traditional RAM sticks

  • Jay@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    As a Linux user of an Intel Arc card. I can safely say that the support is outstanding. In terms of price to performance, I think it’s pretty good too. I mainly enjoy having 16GB of VRAM and not spending $450-$500+ to get that amount like Nvidia. I know AMD also has cards around the same price that have that amount of VRAM too though

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      20 days ago

      That’s interesting, thanks. Can I ask what that vram is getting used for? Gaming, llms, other computing?

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        19 days ago

        The main things that use up a lot of VRAM for me is definitely doing Blender rendering and shader compilation for things like Unreal Engine. My games probably would use a little more if I had any screen higher than 1080p. The most usage I’ve seen from a game was around 14Gb used

        I haven’t messed around with llms on the card just yet but I know that Intel does have an extension for PyTorch to do GPU compute. Having the extra VRAM would definitely be of help there

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          19 days ago

          That’s pretty much the lowest that I’ve found too.

          From what I could find, this is the lowest price per GPU manufacturer (For 16GB of VRAM)

          • Intel Arc A770: $260
          • Radeon RX 7600XT: $320
          • NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti: $450