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I can't believe it after NVIDIA and AMD

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nerfed options Intel has finally done it

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they released the first good budget GPU in over 5 years it doesn't cut any

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Corners it's got 12 gigs of vram which means that new games like Indiana Jones

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will run properly it's relatively efficient and best of all it's got raw

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performance that beats the RTX 46 handily at both 1080P and 1440p if I had

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scripted Intel's press conference for this thing it probably would have gone

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something like this 49 it's been a

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difficult journey to get here for team blue their first generation had famously

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buggy drivers with some games running poorly or even not at all which led to

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such low sales figures that the department has been the subject of near

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constant speculation that it would be cut but believe it or not they have

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squashed most of the bugs most of them

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we'll talk about that later first the tldr last time we asked viewers to

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consider buying Intel Arc because we were desperate for them to emerge as a

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disruptor in the GPU duopoly this time

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we're asking you to consider Intel Arc because it's freaking awesome to the

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point where I would say that it is the only choice for gamers who want to spend

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$450 to $700 on a tower or for those

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folks who have waited so patiently for an upgrade to their faithful GTX 1660 or

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or 10 series it's time to bag up that old GPU wait wait don't throw me out yet

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end of this year let's start at 1080p

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where AMD and NVIDIA are more than happy to gou you for the luxury of being able

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to play First St City in cyberpunk the

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b580 makes an impressive debut running neck and neck with the 4060 TI 16 gig a

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card that retails for $450 you heard me this one is 80% more

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expensive and check out the b 580s direct competition the $300 460 and the

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$250 RX 7600 they're behind by nearly

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15% and Intel's lead increases in Red

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Dead Redemption 2 where they improvements to Vulcan support have lifted The Fortunes of even their last

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generation cards and brought the b580 in line with the 7700 XT a

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$400 GPU this kind of utter dominance

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though isn't across the board in The Last of Us Part One the b580 falls back

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in line but then even this poor result has them beating NVIDIA and AMD's

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current Generation price competitors in f123 AMD takes the lead but they've

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historically performed really well on the track and in the old but gold shadow

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of the Tomb Raider the b580 barely inches past the RTX 460 in average FPS

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and loses in 1% lows which we classify

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as a loss in returnal the b580 is neck and neck with the 4060 TI and the 6700

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XT only taking a clear L from the 7700

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XT which again I remind you is a $400

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card and then finally in atomic heart the b580 sales lose some of their

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glorious wind but hey the most expensive

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card on the charts was bound to win at least one game wasn't it looking at the

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overall picture Intel you've outdone yourself you've pulled off a commanding

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generational uplift of 55% and beaten

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your old Flagship even by more than 20%

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you've Fallen shy of the 4060 TI but the bottom line is if Gamers out there are

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looking to upgrade their Aging gpus for high refresh rate 1080p gaming you've

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given us something to finally recommend to them not just point at the least

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worst thing but to recommend to them

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this is a truly incredible achievement for Intel and they did a lot to make it

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happen their new BMG g21 so

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interestingly they don't call it a GPU leaves no stone unturned in the search

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for performance improvements they've jumped to a new process node and made

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several architectural and Driver overhauls that Intel claims gave them a

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70% Improvement in performance per core and a 50 % energy improvement over last

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gen which makes me wonder why did they hold back if 20 xc2 cores is good then

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32 cores on a b770 would be better

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speaking of bigger nearly 37% of steam users are gaming at a resolution that is

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greater than 1080p these days and that number keeps growing as 1440p and 4K

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monitors continue to come down in price so can Intel compete at 1440p as well

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the short answer is yes across our suite

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of benchmarks the b580 overtakes the RX 6700 XT and narrows the Gap with the

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4060 TI to just a few perc as for

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Intel's promised 10% lead over the 4060

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well it appears they were actually being modest across our game selection we

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found a lead of 20% though it is worth

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noting that this will vary depending on game selection starting with the

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famously vram hungry The Last of Us Part One the b580 holds its position on our

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chart embarrassing NVIDIA again with the b580 is 1% lows besting the 460s average

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FPS shadow of the Tomb Raider demonstrates just what an incredible

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generational leap Intel has pulled off here and it seems like something about

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returnal really likes Intel because all of our team blue cards get a nice little

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bump in the rankings I'm kind of running out of ways to say Intel's doing well so

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um in Red Dead Redemption 2 Intel did

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bloy and in cyberp Punk they blomen the

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competition while making it glaringly obvious just how overdue the 1060 and

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upgrade with strong if not mind-blowing performance in both atomic heart and

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f123 it's clear that Intel has achieved what they set out to do made a killer

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value 1080p gaming card that's also capable of 1440p there are some caveats

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even Intel admits that they don't win in every game and a motherboard with

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support for resizable bar is mandatory for Arc gpus and the b580 isn't a

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top-of-the-line Benchmark Buster so if you have a higher tier older card like a

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3060 TI you shouldn't feel compelled to upgrade here but as far as downsides go

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those are pretty minor and there's more to like than just the raw performance

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let's talk about Ray tracing which is a little more relevant these days all of a

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sudden than it used to be especially when you consider the games are starting

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to list rate tracing as a minimum requirement while we didn't have time to

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develop a test for our boy Indie we did check out the RT performance in a few

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other games tracing those Rays still results in a significant performance hit

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but NVIDIA's mature and well supported RT Tech allows them to beat the b580 in

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a big way in atomic heart at 1080p in returnal the b580 catches right back up

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to the 4060 TI but falls back into the pack in f123 overall you can have a

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solid plus 60 FPS R Trac gaming experience a assuming you're willing to

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fiddle with the settings just a little bit speaking of which alra settings at

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1440p that's beyond the reach of pretty much every card we've tested today the

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entire lot failing to break 60 FPS average in any title but the extra vram

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on the b580 earns a a sizable lead over the 4060 in returnal and in f123 even if

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it can't pull out a win in atomic heart AMD's RX 7600 o it's basically crying in

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the corner trying to figure out why it's even here and if you're wondering where the flagship R tracing title cyber Punk

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is well uh we had some Intel problems it seems

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to not like running at Ultra Ray tracing settings on CPUs with 3D vcash but

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before you start hanging Intel about game compatibility they are aware and

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they are working on it look Mom we made the patch notes and since the launch of

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Arc compatibility has massively improved Hardware box recently showed in a test

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of 250 games that 233 were completely

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playable there were still issues and some of those were in major titles that

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took a lot longer to fix than we would have liked but hopefully Intel will

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continue this upward Trend in compatibility now knowing the price and

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the 1440p performance numbers you wouldn't expect this to be a 4K gaming

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card and you'd be right it's not a 4K card even in low settings in cyberpunk

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we don't see great frame rates at least

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not natively but Intel's got some more tricks up their sleeves desperate to not

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completely miss the boat on the AI boom Intel has packed some juicy AI into the

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b580 in order to up its performance oh I guess if I'm going to talk about AI I

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might as well dress the part with my tech bro vest from LTT

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store.com Intel's AI powered render enhancement sauce comes in the form of

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xs2 xss 2 has three main parts an AI

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upscaler that renders the game at a lower resolution then uses AI to upscale

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to your display resolution xss frame generation which creates extra frames by

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interpolating Visual and in-game Vector data and then taking the two frames and

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making a middle point to enhance animation smoothness and a latency

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reduction component that helps to cancel out some of the extra latency from the

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aforementioned frame generation in fewer words they've invented NVIDIA dlss

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NVIDIA frame gen and NVIDIA reflex and what's nice is that unlike the time that

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AMD invented Invidia reflex with anti-le plus Intel has implemented this in a way

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that the game developer bakes it into the game meaning you won't get permaband

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for turning it on we're not going to be doing a deep dive into image quality at

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this time but we will'll be looking at performance and we will make some

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anecdotal remarks about image quality xss has already proven itself to be a

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solid upscaling technology and xcss 2 successfully builds upon that Foundation

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when turning on super sampling to its highest quality level in cyberpunk 2077

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at 1440p Intel wins an FPS thanks to the raw performance advantage that they

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already had but their super resolution solution doesn't scale as well NVIDIA

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sees a performance uplift of 42 and 32% in the lows and averages respectively

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while while Intel only gets around a 20% boost we see the same Trend at 4K the

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b580 doesn't gain as much performance from xss as NVIDIA does from dlss but

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wins by just being a more powerful card the 4060 though it doesn't even hit 30

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FPS here but the story changes a bit in f124 the only title currently available

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for us to test XS 2's frame Gem and this

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is where things get wacky in this game the upscales are better matched but in

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frame gen it's a blowout Intel is

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introducing way more generated frames with performance skyrocketing to 70%

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over the upscale result and double over native rendering and it is almost

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indistinguishable from native rendering unless you really know what to look for

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and if you ignore those Tire artifacts that arise from the upscaling not the

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frame gen it's weird it has doubled the FPS with barely a drop in quality heck

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you can even get over 100 FPS at 4K with xss turned on granted Intel probably

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worked pretty closely with the devs to make sure that this launch title would

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leave a good impression but a good impression is a good impression while

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Intel pitched this as a gaming card first and formost they did include some

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other value ads like their enhanced media engine that now supports more

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codex than NVIDIA or AMD in modern av1

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encoding we can see a clear generational uplift but Intel can't quite match the

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speed of NVIDIA's nank encoder and it's worth noting here by the way that while

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AMD does compete on this chart it does so by outputting the wrong resolution

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1920x 1082 and yes that is a hardware

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level problem yikes in the more ubiquitous h264 the b580 snatches the

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crown although margins are pretty small across the board here now thanks to

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their Optics rendering blender sees some good old fashioned NVIDIA domination at

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least on the cards that have rt cores and interestingly the b580 performs

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significantly worse than Intel's last gen cards Intel told us this is expected

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but didn't really go into why our best guess then is that it's due to the

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relatively smaller number of XE cores on this card compared to the last gen but

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that didn't slow it down in gaming so yay gaming moving into our AI testing

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NVIDIA's dominant position means that most AI software is developed with Cuda

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in mind making it easy for folks at home to get up and running quickly the good

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news is things are getting easier for AMD and Intel users and if you want to

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run some computer vision large language models or image generation at home you

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can probably get it working on your non- envidia GPU in a few extra steps and

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generationally Intel has made a massive leap in performance taking the lead in

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our stable diffusion image generation Benchmark by a pretty big margin in

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computer vision it loses to the 460 although just barely so if you can get

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it running it works great as long as you don't mind using a bunch of power to

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generate a portrait of your ant as an actual ant speaking of power we haven't

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even talked about power yet the physical PCB of our card is stinky and Intel

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takes advantage of this by implementing a new flowthrough cooler design thermals

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are well under control with the hot spot on the b580 never passing 76° in either

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synthetic or gaming workloads the b580 is targeting a TDP of 190 Watts that's

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25 watts more than the RX 7600 and 460

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TI and 75 Watts more than the 4060

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non-ti so it's clear that even with all of their improvements Intel does have a

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ways to go with NVIDIA pulling off a clean Victory when it comes to

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Performance per watt even if NVIDIA doesn't seem to understand what

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performance per dollar is the b580 uses

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just one PCIe 8 Pin for power so you won't need to upgrade your power supply

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that is unless you have a power supply that is less than 600 W even though it

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should only draw a Max of 225 Watts with that power connector we saw some

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transient spikes up to 241 watts in F1

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that is significantly higher than Intel's advertised 190 Watts so in

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conclusion maybe it's just cuz it's been so long since we've seen a great budget

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card but man I'm excited like how many

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times have I had to say well you could buy this shiny new thing but it kind of

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sucks and you'd be way better off going with something last gen or secondhand or

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just not upgrading at all well not today

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I mean eBay deals obviously still exist but but this is a new GPU that doesn't

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suck with modern features and it's worthy of Celebration even if Intel is a

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little late to the party see the thing is AMD and NVIDIA are poised to release

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their next generation of gpus early next year so it isn't out of the question for

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a couple of companies that have had their stock prices double or 10 uple to

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make a move to Nuke Arc B series from orbit also the looming thread of tariffs

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could impact the affordability of these cards but hey it's going to be a pretty

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sweet ride up until that time it's a great GPU that will give you great

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performance without destroying your wallet hold on scrap that bulky wallet

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don't but lonus is paying for it well lus is filming on set I've been hiding

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aren't really relevant other than to give you the context for how far we have

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come this is truly a wonderful achievement for Intel and for the world

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