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Intel has gone through a bit of a rough patch recently one so bad maybe we

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should be calling it a rough mile degradation found in their 13th and 14th

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gen processors was bad enough then there were the mass layoffs and belt

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tightening then they hoped that the core Ultra 200 series code Nam Arrow Lake

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would make a splash but unfortunately despite some interesting changes and

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impressive efficiency gains it was more of a belly flop so today they made two

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major announcements their CEO is out

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like what and also their Arc desktop

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gpus are finally getting a followup to

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say then that they need arc battle mage to be a win would be a gross

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understatement but with the announcements made today I am cautiously

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optimistic if the numbers are to be believed it is looking great for Budget

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Gamers but if this is yet another failure I think 2024 could go down as

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the single worst year in Intel's existence so I thought it was only

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fitting then that this segue this one that I'm dragging out right now should

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there's a lot of ground for us to cover but in a nutshell you'll find nuts and

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in this video you'll find mostly a recap of the battle mage announcement Intel

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has confirmed that we are getting two new graphics cards the b580 in mid

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December and the b570 about a month later in mid January more on the

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architectural and software improvements in a bit but these cards are 12 gig and

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10 gig cards respectively meaning that you should be very comfortable gaming at

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1080P and Intel is even going as as far as to say that the b580 could be the

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heart of a 1440p gaming machine and all

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of this for less money than NVIDIA's RTX

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460 which only has 8 gigs of vram and is

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marketed as a 1080p card the pricing I

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got to say it looks great but you don't

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have to look far for the motivation for this hyper aggressive pricing Arc

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Alchemist has barely even registered on the steam Hardware survey and it's been

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out for two long years so what has

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changed then to give this new card a chance to compete well kind of

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everything we first met battl Mage alongside Intel's lunar lake mobile

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platform earlier this year the big Focus efficiency their previous XE based

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graphics cards required massive amounts of power and large silicon dies for

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meager performance and their changes focus on improving core utilization

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enabling smarter work distribution between those cores and reducing

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software overhead they've made vast improvements to pretty much every part

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of the pipeline improved vertex fetching mesh shading out of order sampling

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blending throughput and many more terms that quite honestly I don't expect the

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average gamer to care about but what you might care about is Ray tracing each Ray

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tracing unit is larger and can now handle 1.5x or two times more

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calculations further improving the already decent RT performance of XC

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graphics and thanks to the b580 12 gigs

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of GDDR 6 not 6x sadly you are less

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likely to find your rate tracing performance bottleneck with Intel claiming a 64% frame rate improvement

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over the RTX 4060 in one cherry-picked

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example where the b580 still runs below 60 frames per second making that

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argument pretty questionable but but AI

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XY Matrix extensions which can be described kind of as the tensor cores of

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Intel gpus are specifically designed to maximize performance with the Matrix

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math that is typical of AI workloads and they got some nice juice here xmx was

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already pretty impressive albe it under supported on their server Hardware but

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here we get upgrades to support more data types and we get improved clock

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speeds which could be a huge Boom for people who are interested in running

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local models on the cheap Intel is so confident in this that they're providing

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a front end for generating your own AI images maybe they could use it to

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generate one like this I kid I kid all

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of these improvements and features are coming on a card that will draw just

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8.5% more power than its namesake predecessor it's still a lot more power

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than the RTX 4060 but is an impressive Improvement in performance per watt

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nonetheless but we always got to keep in mind these results are cherry-picked

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samples from Intel so as always I would encourage you guys to wait for our full

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review speaking of sampling super sampling launching alongside this new

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discret card is xcs2 which is team Blue's answer to dlss 3 plus frame gen

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it packs a sweet of AI enhanced features super sampling to improve performance by

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rendering the game at a lower resolution then using AI to upscale it to your

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display combined with AI powered frame generation that will add fake frames

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based on both in-engine Vector information and Optical flow information

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to deal with the added latency of trying to add fake frames a latency reduction

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solution that is plainly titled XE low latency Intel claims we can expect a 45%

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latency reduction over native rendering furthermore they're bringing xcss

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support to Vulcan and direct X11 allowing developers to more easily

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implement the tech in existing and future games sounds promising but

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naturally all of the caveats around the image quality of dlss and FSR still

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apply here until we see it maybe it's perfect but I doubt it but what about

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the price I keep saying it's good but I haven't said what it is well you're

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going to have to wait for our review to see where this card actually lands when

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it comes to 1080P and 1440p performance

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but what we know now is at

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$249 I am well I'm extremely excited

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both of the incumbent players have treated the budget gaming segment like

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it isn't even worth their time and attention but Intel looks dead set to

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bring back the like the capable $500

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gaming box and this is the best outcome

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that I could have hoped for back when they threw their hat in the ring their

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LTT hat Pro LTT Store.com of course we

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should be taking all of this with a grain of salt so big you could choke on it but what Intel is claiming is 26%

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average uplift in raster performance per dollar over the RX 7600 at 1440p Ultra

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which is across 47 games on a card that is $20 cheaper at MSRP and then if we

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look at Ray tracing which is one of Team Red's biggest weak points when compared

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to NVIDIA team blue comes out 37 points

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ahead of that same card there's less data points here with only nine games

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tested but that is still very hopefully

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impressive and at 299 the RTX 4060 is

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allegedly getting slaughtered by Intel's new b580 that NVIDIA card costs about

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20% more while delivering allegedly 24%

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less raster performance per dollar and 20% less raate tracing performance per

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dollar at 1440p so it looks like while the CPU

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team at Intel was busy trying to do something great the GPU division may

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have been busy succeeding allegedly I

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can't wait to start testing these cards and finding out where they actually land

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both against the competition and against themselves this card should crush it in

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just about every way yes the memory bus

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width is substantially lower but we've got a lot more vram and much higher

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clock speeds to help make 1440p gaming possible they're also launching

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alongside years of groundwork that was laid by the driver team that took the

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original Arc cards from the stuttery mess at launch to basically playable

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across the majority of PC games now when we were discussing the leaks and the

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battle mage launch internally we all agreed that this thing needed to be no

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more than $250 and at minimum it had to

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be on par with an RTX 4060 for performance for it to even matter

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anything more expensive or less performant and they would have shot

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themselves in the foot moments before the race even began well Intel battle

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mage and xc2 Graphics they might be a little late to the party but but if

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these slides are to be believed they were just busy stopping for more

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Beverages and guests so they could keep the party going their timing also kind

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of good in my opinion it could be months before we see something like an RTX 5060

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from NVIDIA and an RX 88600 or whatever is next from AMD now there's absolutely

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no telling how much better they might be but even a 20% Improvement at the same

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price could still keep Intel on top of that lowest rung on the ladder so the

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way that I see it it if we have to sacrifice Pat Ginger to summon our Dark

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