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Intel Reportedly Designing Arctic Sound Discrete GPU For Gaming, Pro Graphics (hothardware.com)
MojoKid shares a report from HotHardware: When AMD's former graphics boss Raja Koduri landed at Intel after taking a much-earned hiatus from the company, it was seen as a major coup for the Santa Clara chip outfit, one that seemed to signal that Intel might be targeting to compete in the discrete graphics card market. While nothing has been announced in that regard, some analysts are claiming that there will indeed be a gaming variant of Intel's upcoming discrete "Arctic Sound" GPU. According to reports, Intel originally planned to build Arctic Sound graphics chips mainly for video streaming chores and data center activities. However, claims are surfacing that the company has since decided to build out a gaming variant at the behest of Koduri, who wants to "enter the market with a bang." Certainly a gaming GPU that could compete with AMD and NVIDIA would accomplish that goal. Reportedly, Intel could pull together two different version of Arctic Sound. One would be an integrated chip package, like the Core i7-8809G (Kaby Lake-G) but with Intel's own discrete graphics, as well as a standalone chip that will end up in a traditional graphics cards. Likely both of those will have variants designed for gaming, just as AMD and NVIDIA build GPUs for professional use and gaming as well.
Is it the third or are there even more failed attempts?
Intel 740, Larrabee and now this. Even if they are successful and finally get a miracle where they produce hardware that is actually good enough. They won't beat nvidia or AMD unless they use their fab tech to build a much bigger, much more expensive to fab chip. But let's just say they pull the miracle rabbit out of the hat. Their drivers will still suck for games. To be able to get a foot in this market you will need several years/generations with competitive hardware so game engines are written with explicit thought for you, games do tests and fixes on your hardware, a driver team works with game makers for a long time,etc. I just don't see the Intel videocard driver team being capable this way.
The only chance Intel maybe has is to convince the console makers to use theirs instead of AMD for the next consoles. With enough money/rebates and the great Intel sales magic to OEMs this might even work. But for discrete PC gaming this is all DOA. I just don't see how Intel can make money on this, not with the rebates they would have to give the console makers to actually "succeed". This sounds like another Atom/mobile CPU/ARM competitor fiasco where they burn billions.
They named a Graphics Processing Unit Arctic Sound .
Dumbasses.
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