Flagship Intel Arc A770 GPU Showcased in Blender with Ray Tracing and Live Denoising

[AleksandarK]

Intel Arc Alchemist graphics cards span both gamer and creator/professional user market sector, where we witnessed Intel announce gamer and pro-vis GPU SKUs. Today, we are seeing the usage of the flagship Arc Alchemist SKU called A770 in Blender rendering with ray tracing enabled. The GPU is designed to have a DG2-512 GPU with 512 EUs, 4096 Shading Units, 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, and 32 Xe cores for ray tracing, be a powerhouse for games, and handle some professional software as well. At SIGGRAPH 2022, Bob Duffy, Intel's Director of Graphics Community Engagement, showcased a system with Arc A770 GPU running Blender Cycles with ray tracing and denoising.

While we don't have any comparable data to showcase, the system managed to produce a decent rendering in Blender 3.3 LTS release, using Intel's oneAPI. The demo scene had 4,369,466 vertices, 8,702,031 edges, 4,349,606 faces, and 8,682,950 triangles, backed by ray tracing and live denoising. We are yet to see more detailed benchmarks and how the GPU fares against the competition.


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[ZetZet]

So... is it launched yet?


Reminds me of the scene from Ocean's Thirteen when they talked about what's a soft opening. This is the softest launch of the product I have ever seen. It might launch so slowly it gets cancelled while launching.

 

[awesomesauce]

i have 3dfx feeling about this ; all showcase no real launch..

 

[erek]

i have 3dfx feeling about this ; all showcase no real launch..

I’ve got an unreleased 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 prototype

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

So no 780?

 

[Shihab]

Vapourware red flags aside, it's good to see Blender and Cycles becoming the go to platform to showcase "professional" workload performance.

 

[ZoneDymo]

I think we really are out of things to say at this point, they need to just release the product.
Also am I getting this right? did they make their own test to show this off? this is not some benchmark that is available anywhere so we could see what the competition does under the same settings?

If so, again.....not that confidence was high....but this really does not help.....could have just ran the 3Dmark RT benchmark but no...because they have somethign to hide?

 

[Smartcom5]

i have 3dfx feeling about this ; all showcase no real launch..

Oh c'mon! First of all 3Dfx …

1. already had shipped ground-breaking GPUs prior to their last dying end-game, I mean without having to specialise for certain benchmark-suits to have any longer bars
2. was a fierce competitor many other market-player had to learn can be quite a tough nut to crack and keep pace with
3. and lastly, for years 3Dfx largely delivered upon their promises in any past.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Oh c'mon! First of all 3Dfx …

1. already had shipped ground-breaking GPUs prior to their last dying end-game, I mean without having to specialise for certain benchmark-suits to have any longer bars
2. was a fierce competitor many other market-player had to learn can be quite a tough nut to crack and keep pace with
3. and lastly, for years 3Dfx largely delivered upon their promises in any past.

There is a reason big N bought them up.

 

[Jimmy_]

just launch it!!!!!!!!

 

[HenrySomeone]

Oh c'mon! First of all 3Dfx …

1. already had shipped ground-breaking GPUs prior to their last dying end-game, I mean without having to specialise for certain benchmark-suits to have any longer bars
2. was a fierce competitor many other market-player had to learn can be quite a tough nut to crack and keep pace with
3. and lastly, for years 3Dfx largely delivered upon their promises in any past.

4. For 3dfx gpus were all they had; so when those failed, they went under. For Intel this is essentially a side project.

 

[Durhamranger]

4. For 3dfx gpus were all they had; so when those failed, they went under. For Intel this is essentially a side project.

For a side project its being mighty expensive 3.5 Billion USD.....

 

[erek]

For a side project its being mighty expensive 3.5 Billion USD.....

They should just upscale Gen (as improved with process and architectural optimal) and just copy and paste multiple cores linked together with some internal high speed and bandwidth interposer or interconnect. Throw some voltage and amperage at it and lean into their stable Gen driver base

 

[1freedude]

just launch it!!!!!!!!

Intel discrete GPU division is like Blue Origin...a shit ton of money and little to show for it.

I'm prolly gonna get one, just to say I have one.

 

[swirl09]

just launch it!!!!!!!!

And then Just buy it!!!!


Seriously tho, they are even failing at the PR. This is the build up you do when a launch is imminent, and Intel is that scattered Im not sure even they know when its launching.

I joked earlier in the year that they will only have 10 minutes before they face competition from a new gen. Then delays were announced and I sorta joked that maybe my first joke wasnt that much of a joke.... Now, they are going to wish they had 10 minutes to try sell this thing before a new gen shows up!

 

[ThrashZone]

And then Just buy it!!!!

Hi,
They can't say that nvidia would sue them

 

[Bomby569]

This has become a meme, they keep talking and leaking and showing stuff but still no cards. Wasn't this supposed to launch at the begging of the year?

I may consider getting one if i can find one, this will never release and in a couple of years is a collectors item. Never released ultra rare Arc GPU, 15.000€

 

[ZoneDymo]

This has become a meme, they keep talking and leaking and showing stuff but still no cards. Wasn't this supposed to launch at the begging of the year?

I may consider getting one if i can find one, this will never release and in a couple of years is a collectors item. Never released ultra rare Arc GPU, 15.000€

Eh I have never seen old gpu's increase in price due to collectors interest

 

[watzupken]

I think the product is shaping up to be a good professional GPU as far as I can tell. But all these are pointless when there is no real product to buy. Its all benchmarks, teasers and showcase so far.

 

[Crackong]

Hey there are some cards for the PR team
Why don't you fulfill the prizes promised in the Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt ?

 

[HisDivineOrder]

They should just upscale Gen (as improved with process and architectural optimal) and just copy and paste multiple cores linked together with some internal high speed and bandwidth interposer or interconnect. Throw some voltage and amperage at it and lean into their stable Gen driver base

If they had done that, they wouldn't have needed Raja, now would they? And they needed Raja because they'd lost a bet and had to hire him. Because Raja! So to justify Raja, they had to swing for the fences and strike out. For nine innings straight. See, that's Raja's specialty.

Soonish, we'll find Raja leaving Intel to go work somewhere like Apple or Qualcomm to help them "improve" their GPU the same way he helped AMD and Intel "improve" theirs.

Raja will return.

 

[Minus Infinity]

So no 780?

A780 is dead, A770 is going to be highest card if Arc is ever released on desktop and that's highly uncertain.

 

[Jimmy_]

And then Just buy it!!!!


Seriously tho, they are even failing at the PR. This is the build up you do when a launch is imminent, and Intel is that scattered Im not sure even they know when its launching.

I joked earlier in the year that they will only have 10 minutes before they face competition from a new gen. Then delays were announced and I sorta joked that maybe my first joke wasnt that much of a joke.... Now, they are going to wish they had 10 minutes to try sell this thing before a new gen shows up!

nah! this piece will not be sold soon as it will be delayed again and again .
not sure why this is getting delayed - maybe they arent able to get any stable drivers or something or something.
And now they don't support native DX9 in any dGPU and now iGPU as well ..... Raja! Raja is living in a bubble.

Intel discrete GPU division is like Blue Origin...a shit ton of money and little to show for it.

I'm prolly gonna get one, just to say I have one.

$3.5bn put in $500m in loss .
Quality of hiring and product is bad in intel it seems

A780 is dead, A770 is going to be highest card if Arc is ever released on desktop and that's highly uncertain

Intel is new form of uncertainty

 

[Mussels]

I read showcased in blender, I WANT TO SEE IT IN A BLENDER.

 

[Bomby569]

Eh I have never seen old gpu's increase in price due to collectors interest

This Ultra-Rare Intel GPU Just Sold for $5,000 on eBay

This prototype card could be the last of its kind.

gizmodo.com

this was just the first result, i'm sure there are more. I Know some voodoos go for a lot to, especially the unrelease ones like the 6000