u/quantum3ntanglement

I'm doing research on where Intel Arc (Discrete) is headed. I'm also an INTC shareholder, voting is coming up. I'm working on registering my business for technical documentation. I have a C Corp.

I'm not finding much information for future Discrete Arc offerings, the only thing I've found is an AI monster with 160 GB of VRAM. Probably a $5000 card?

The AI stack for Arc needs an enormous amount of work and Intel has shuttered its doors for Open Source Evangelism, leaving only the Intel Discord and maybe a few other avenues, but I have not found much.

If The Lip only releases a $5000 AI Goliath where does that leave oneAPI development, XeSS, Game and Pro drivers? Will I get support for my B70 and all my Battlemage / Alchemist cards?

Will they pull Game Ready driver support for Intel Arc Pro cards?

I feel like too much fat is being cut and I realize the industry is upside down right now but if Intel turns its back on DIY and gamers, what will it have? It could be three years or more before we get another discrete GPU that people can afford. We should be asking Intel what their plans are. The US government has invested 10% in to INTC and AI is taking jobs away. Through the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, INTC received billions of dollars. The RAM Apocalypse is a scam and most of the data centers will not be built, no one wants or needs the hyper-scalers.

I'm already running open source AI models through ollama. In addition I'm building an open source AI Anomaly Detector for residences and mom and pop shops. I am also trying to get down to DC so I can make sense of things.

oneAPI could eventually dominate the market, it is competing with CUDA - gamers and developers need affordable options.

My long term goal is to continue to build out my Home Lab and eventually make my own GPU - in the end that is the only option that seems real to me. I will get there if I live another ten years, the critics / cynics will be ignored. Intel has to do better at communicating with the public. Tom Peterson seems to be the only evangelist Intel has?

Is anyone interested in doing an online movement that shows there is demand for affordable Intel Arc (Discrete) GPUs. There is also a movement in the industry towards powerful APUs and iGPUs in micro-servers and I'm going to look into running discrete GPUs on mac miniz and stuff like that. I don't want to see discrete GPUs die and if they do die, I will resurrect them. Maybe it will just be a handful of people by then...

Epic Games has pulled support for Hardware Ray Tracing for Intel Arc and Amd Radeon, making the Nvidia Geforce monopoly stronger. AI workflows are supposed to make supporting multiple platforms easier but the industry is imploding now. Corporations have too much power and monopolies need to be dealt with.

I recently purchased the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB VRAM GPU, a powerful card with a 256 Memory Bus and plenty of VRAM and 32 Xe2 Cores. How can Ray Tracing not be supported on the card now? I was also able to run the game with Hardware Ray Tracing on my B580 just a few weeks ago, but that option is gone.

Is this happening to Radeon and GeForce Card users also? I will test on my 5090...

Can we please bring back Hardware Ray Tracing and Lumen Epic for Arc cards, I finally got my hands on a B70 and then Epic pulls support for Lumen and Hardware Ray Tracing, it is disheartening...

Can we bring these options back in the Settings under Experimental? I really want to push the B70 as hard as I can. I have been running Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p with the B70, Full Tilt with Pyscho Reflections, Ultra / High Textures / Settings.

Ray Tracing Not Supported On This Platform

Hey everyone! I'm u/quantum3ntanglement, a founding moderator of r/IntelArcPro.

This is our new home for all things related to Intel Arc Pro GPUs (includes AIBs like ASRock Creator, Sparkle, etc..).

This subreddit is dedicated to users of Intel Arc Pro series cards — especially the B70, B60, and B50.

What makes these cards unique is that Intel provides the only fully open-source Linux drivers among the major discrete GPU vendors. This gives us a genuine advantage for performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and building custom tools on Linux.

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My B70 arrived safely from newegg ($949 before tax). I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077 Full Tilt at 1440p for a few hours and seeing high temps, almost reaching 89C mainly on the VR SoC, VR Core and VR Memory.

It has a blower style fan and I can't see Fan Controls in IGS > Performance > Tuning. I will try a DDU uninstall in SAFE mode without internet access and install the latest 8629 drivers. This is in on Windows 11 for now, I'll be testing Ubuntu soon.

I have a window fan right now blowing in 36F air on to the card and another big fan on the other end (open air rig). I'm looking into Static Pressure fans that I can mount through a PCIe slot - have to see what I can find.

I have had the Tuning section disappear for me often inside the IGS software so I'm hoping it returns for the B70. I'm happy with the card, just need to get the cooling situation better.

I am working on video of Cyberpunk 2077, for now these are the settings I'm doing:

- I'm using XeSS Balance with 2x Frame Gen set in IGS

- I did a quick Benchmark without Frame Gen and it stayed between 30 fps and 40

- This Benchmark was with Path Tracing on, so it was intense

- I've got vsync on, locked to 59.9 FPS at 119.88 Hertz - 14440p

- HDR On with Intel Low Latency w/Boost On

- I'm using 28 gb of VRAM

- Lens Flare On, Depth Of Field On, Chromatic Aberration On

- Vignette On, Motion Blur Off, Film Grain Off

- Path Tracing Is Enabled (most intense)

- Crowd Density Low

- Field of View 80

- Contact Shadows and Improved Facial Geometry On

- Anisotropy at 16

- All Shadow and Mesh Settings maxed to High

- Volumetric Cloud and Fog Ultra

- Max Dynamic Decals High

- Screen Space Reflections Pyscho

- Subsurface Scattering, Ambient Occlusion, Color Precision, Mirror, LOG High (max)

Update:

- I should also mention that I have Desktop Mode and Active Signal Mode in sync (2560 x 1440) 119.88Hz and I have set the Bit Depth in IGS > Display to 12 Bit, with Quantization Range Set To Full (Getting More Color, Looks Good)

I have pushed the card all the way to 228 Watts playing Cyberpunk and there is one 8 pin connector on the side for the card. I believe the Intel card can only max to 230 watts but the ASRock Creator and similar cards (AIB) should be able to push more, maybe 290 Watts.

Overall I'm impressed with the card, the software stack is getting better everyday and I'll be working on monitoring software for these cards on Linux.

Footnote: Hank, dont abreviate...

NOTE: The Intel Arc Pro B70 does not have HDMI inputs! It has four Display Ports (v2.1)

I just finished processing my order for the Intel (L33T or LE???) Arc Pro B70 on newegg.com. I don't like having my GPUs delivered, I'd much rather go to microcenter or Best High Buy as I don't have to worry about transit and I can check that the GPU is in the box!

I have been monitoring the seven microcenters in my area and they, at first, said that shipments of the B70 would be coming in near the end of April. However I continued to check the microcenter stores everyday to see and over the weekend I saw stock starting to come in for the B70. I monitored it all day yesterday (every 20 minutes it seems) and didn't see stock deplete. Then I wake up this morning and all the B70 stock was gone from two of the microcenters that are close to me, microcenter is ridiculously slow in updating their inventory online. Also recently they made it harder to web scrape their websites but I already have a solution for that. Why can't microcenter offer an API for stock? They probably don't want to spend money on building it, but it could be built and secured in a week or less

So I had a panic attack and got on newegg.com and saw the card in stock, I have rush (next day) delivery with signature. Also I'm seeing some service called www.shipmentprotect.com that newegg redirects shoppers to? It is free but they probably are pulling some kind of scam. Do they just spam people through email? Has anyone used this free service?

My plan is to build courses for students who are interested in getting into programming with AI Workflows / Agents. The key is debugging the code step by step and understanding (creating documentation) how the code works. We still need to know what is happening under the hood.

If the B70 arrives safely (pray for me!) I will be working on getting ollama to run this way:

LLM Scaler is the path to take for Battlemage, IPEX on GitHub is read only now?

https://github.com/intel/llm-scaler

- does anyone know how oneApi integrates with LLM-scaler

- the Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit needs to be installed?

Intel has a specific project that bridges Ollama to their hardware using the oneAPI backend. This generally provides better performance than generic Vulkan drivers.

Prerequisites: * Install the Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit (specifically the Level Zero drivers).

I’m also looking into this repo:

https://github.com/SearchSavior/OpenArc

Any thoughts, insights?

Intel's oneAPI is competing with CUDA, the B70 has put oneAPI on the map, I need to get this purring...

God Speed!

As a footnote, if all goes well, I will be doing extensive testing of the B70 (and posting to snoozetube) on games that use lots of vram, like Hellblade 2, CP 2077, Black Myth Wukong, etc...

​I don’t really like using Ubuntu but I may go with 24 to start and get Proton working. I’ve been using Alchemist and Battlemage on Fedora since 38 and I might build a version of Fedora from the ground up later this year.

Update: Ok, the card has arrived! The UPS driver came through big time, no dents, nothing. I'm posting a picture of the card on top of a shrink-wrapped FE 3090 that I will be working on. The B70 is light compared to a FE 3090 and thinner, more compact. I could easily mount six B70s on a rack but it won't be easy finding them. Are we allowed to post images on IntelArc?

https://imgur.com/a/zTed8zh