News Intel launching their ARC A380 GPUs - beginning in China and globally during the summer

Intel has officially launched their desktop ARC A380 GPUs - according to INTEL "The release will begin in China and expand globally during the summer."

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Intel says, the A380 can deliver a "fluid 1080p gaming experience at 60 frames per second (FPS) and above with popular titles like League of Legends, Moonlight Blade, Naraka: Bladepoint, and PUBG: Battlegrounds". The ARC A380 also supports hardware AV1 encoding acceleration as well as HEVC & H.264 encode and decode. With an estimated selling price of around USD 150,- this card might be a valid alternative to the RX6400, GTX1650 or upcoming GTX1630...

For those interested, here is INTELs Key Note in Chinese:


One of the first custom models of the INTEL ARC A380 comes from the Chinese Company GUNNIR who have previously already released the Iris Xe MAX Index V2

The GUNNIR Intel Arc A380 Photon 6G OC comes with an factory overclock, dual fan cooler and in contrast to INTELs "reference design" has a TBP of 92W instead of 75W

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Didn't Nvidia open source their drivers for Linux just recently?
Regrettably no:

Nvidia is specifically releasing an open source kernel driver under a dual MIT/GPL license and is not currently open-sourcing parts of the driver that run in user space. This includes drivers for OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL, and CUDA, which are still closed source, in addition to the firmware for the GPU System Processor (GSP). Nvidia says these drivers "will remain closed source and published with pre-built binaries," so it doesn't sound like there are immediate plans to release open source versions.

Nvidia is still behind both Intel and AMD when it comes to open source GPU drivers—both companies maintain open source kernel and user space drivers, along with closed-source firmware. But this is a first step toward open source parity for Nvidia's Linux driver packages.
 
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Really nice to see these are finally showing up for sale, have there been any benchmarks yet?
 

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Really nice to see these are finally showing up for sale, have there been any benchmarks yet?

Some initial benchmarks:


Real world gaming performance seems a bit disappointing vs. 3D Mark test results
 
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