1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:08,400 The GPU in my hand, the Intel Arc Pro B60, is quite possibly the most 2 00:00:05,839 --> 00:00:13,120 important GPU, not just of this year, but maybe the next few years, because of 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:18,960 the way that it could massively disrupt NVIDIA's near monopoly on professional 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:21,359 GPUs, drive costs way down for proumers 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:25,519 and professionals alike, and if the demos they have running in the suite are 6 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:29,760 anything to go by, change the game for AI developers and for businesses who are 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,320 looking to leverage AI private. privately without giving their data away 8 00:00:31,679 --> 00:00:38,399 to companies like OpenAI and Deepseek. And I managed to get some good news for 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:42,079 gamers, too. It wasn't an easy conversation, but I've got a solid 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:47,440 commitment from Intel's VP and general manager for discrete graphics, Vivian. 11 00:00:44,559 --> 00:00:51,840 Yes, the OG land party queen of DFI, to get back to me on what their plan is to 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:56,800 ensure that ARC consumer cards are going to be available at MSRP in the US, where 13 00:00:54,399 --> 00:01:00,879 they're often still well over. Stay tuned for that. Coming back to Ark Pro 14 00:00:58,879 --> 00:01:03,920 though, man. I get it. These are supposed to be for boring people in 15 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:07,920 suits or whatever, but I'm almost feeling some of that land party energy 16 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:14,240 here. Like, check out this wild board from Maxon. It's dual GPU with each of 17 00:01:11,439 --> 00:01:19,680 them getting eight lanes of PCIe Gen 5 and a total of 48 gigs of GDDR6 memory 18 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:24,400 that yes, my friends, through some software magic that's part of what Intel 19 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:31,680 is calling battle matrix can be shared across multiple GPUs for AI workloads, 20 00:01:27,759 --> 00:01:35,040 enabling models of up to 192 GB to sit 21 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:37,119 in GPU memory. And that's just the tip 22 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:42,159 of the iceberg. Oh, what's that down there? Oh, that's the tip of this segue 23 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:46,880 to our sponsor UG Green. Their find track smartfinder helps you find lost 24 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:53,680 items and pinpoint their exact location with an audible sound. Play the 25 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:57,200 sound. It's super slim. It's equipped with a rechargeable and removable 26 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:03,240 battery. And it's even compatible with the Apple Find My app. So check it out 27 00:01:59,119 --> 00:02:03,240 using our link today. 28 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:16,400 Let's get the basics out of the way first. If you know the B580 Battle Mage 29 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:21,440 gaming GPU, then you're already pretty familiar with the new Arc Pro B60. But 30 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:25,840 there are some key differences. First up, the clock speeds are actually lower, 31 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:29,520 which Intel says is to ensure the utmost instability and reliability for 32 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:33,599 professional users. But don't let that fool you into thinking it's some kind of 33 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:39,280 slouch for performance. Memory has been doubled from 12 gigs to 24 gigs. And as 34 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:43,760 we've covered in the past, certified drivers and OpenGL tuning can result in 35 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:48,560 much greater performance in professional applications with Intel showing off a 36 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:53,040 heavyweight list of software partners, including the likes of Solid Works, 37 00:02:50,239 --> 00:02:57,360 Autodesk, and Blender. Here's a little fun fact, by the way. They won't prevent 38 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:01,120 you from installing gaming drivers on your Arc Pro card if you're the kind of 39 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:05,280 person who likes to mix business and pleasure on your PC. Let's take a closer 40 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:09,760 look at some of these cards. I absolutely love that Intel is not taking 41 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:14,959 the same approach as others in the space, locking their board partners into 42 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:19,360 sometimes imperfect reference card designs. We've got a variety of 43 00:03:16,879 --> 00:03:22,959 everything from power connectors. This one has dual eight pins. This one has 44 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:27,680 single eight pins. This guy over here with the dual GPUs gets the much 45 00:03:24,959 --> 00:03:31,599 maligned 12vt 2x6 connector. The point is not whether one of these approaches 46 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:36,799 is superior to the other. The point is that you as the customer have an option. 47 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:42,239 You want three fans. There's this two fans, one fan. How about no fans, a 48 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:46,560 passive design, and use the chassis's air flow in order to blow air through 49 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:51,680 the cooler. NVIDIA in particular has this weird allergy to cards being used 50 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:56,640 for no not quite what we prescribe it for applications and it's refreshing to 51 00:03:54,400 --> 00:04:00,000 see somebody take a different approach. Regardless of the cooler design or 52 00:03:58,159 --> 00:04:07,360 power, you're going to get the same HDMI 2.1 as well as DisplayPort 2.0 UHBR 53 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:09,519 13.5 and PCIe Gen 5. That is an upgrade 54 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:13,840 over the consumer ARC cards which are PCIe Gen 4. I know it's practically 55 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:17,919 cliche at this point, but it's been so long since I've seen a dual GPU card. I 56 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:22,960 kind of can't help but tear it down with my handy convenient LT store precision 57 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:27,919 screwdriver. Thanks, James. That right there is the 58 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:32,080 biggest change from the consumer cards. Instead of just having memory on the 59 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:35,600 front side of the PCB, each of our GPUs has memory on the back side of the PCB 60 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:44,560 as well. That's what gives you double the capacity. Now before you ask, 61 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:47,120 no SLI, Crossfire, XCSS, Fire, whatever 62 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:52,080 is not coming. This is purely to enable customers to install more GPUs in fewer 63 00:04:49,759 --> 00:04:59,560 PCIe slots, but I still think it's super cool. Should we look at the other 64 00:04:55,080 --> 00:05:04,000 side? Let's go, boys. Oh, that's so 65 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:06,160 cool, dude. Shout out, Maxon. 66 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,600 Okay, there's lots of cool stuff to kind of talk about here. Starting with the 67 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:15,360 fact that this just uses a standard four pin power connector. Thank you. Why 68 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:20,160 can't GPU coolers just use these? Then it would be so much flipping easier for 69 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:21,759 me to just like, I don't know, run a 70 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:26,240 regular fan. Okay, it doesn't really change that much. But this is also cool. 71 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:30,080 Check this out. This is very early hardware. You can actually see they did 72 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:36,400 a hand rework on this with this little hair finness copper wire here. 73 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:40,560 Man, that's a lot of GPUs on one board. Okay, it's two, but that's a lot more 74 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:45,600 than usual. Last thing, this is pretty cool. So, you can actually see the PCIe 75 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:50,320 lanes routed off to the separate GPUs. So, each of them gets a B8 interface. 76 00:05:47,919 --> 00:05:54,160 And then check this out. Each of them gets a single HDMI and a single display 77 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:58,479 port. So, this card is effectively just like installing two by8 GPUs in your 78 00:05:57,039 --> 00:06:05,600 system. You just have to have a slot that supports bifurcation. So cool. Moving on to the 79 00:06:02,639 --> 00:06:10,800 Ark Pro B50, this one's a bit more of an unknown. Like its bigger brother, it 80 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:12,800 gets a PCIe Gen 5 by8 interface and a 81 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:17,759 generous allocation of VRAM that makes it very competitive against memory 82 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:22,880 starved cards like the NVIDIA RTX 10000 that Intel is positioning it against. 83 00:06:19,919 --> 00:06:30,240 But unlike the B60, it's not just a repurposed consumer GPU. It gets just 16 84 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:35,039 XE cores compared to 18 in their B570 85 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:37,840 card, which is a bit of a downer, but it 86 00:06:35,039 --> 00:06:42,400 enables it to hit just 70 watts of total board power, which lets it operate 87 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:46,319 without a separate power connector for some pretty cool use cases. Imagine, if 88 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:50,400 you will, that you have a giant chassis on wheels like this. Now, imagine you 89 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:54,720 have the opposite of that. you have a little slimline office workstation like 90 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:59,440 you'd see deployed in an architectural office. This will fit perfectly in that 91 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:03,759 without upgrading the power supply. Or hear me out, if you had a shop 92 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:08,800 environment where you don't want active cooling drawing sawdust and crud into 93 00:07:06,479 --> 00:07:13,599 your machine and then kicking it around, I'd love to see someone do a passively 94 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:17,919 cooled one of these. The coolest stuff is what's coming down the road, though. 95 00:07:15,599 --> 00:07:23,759 Let's turn our attention to Battle Matrix, which Intel is still working on 96 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:25,440 the software magic for, but has it 97 00:07:23,759 --> 00:07:32,160 working enough that they're able to show off some pretty compelling demos. Behind 98 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:35,759 me is full fat Deepseek. Okay, quantized 99 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:38,960 4bit, but still DeepSeek with 671 100 00:07:35,759 --> 00:07:41,680 billion parameters running locally on 101 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:46,479 one system. Now, not everything fits into VRAMm. They've got about 256 agents 102 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:51,759 that don't get used as much on the system RAM, but this is it. Full fat 103 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:56,160 Deepseek running on local hardware. This is perfect for a firm that has valuable 104 00:07:54,080 --> 00:08:03,120 intellectual property and doesn't want to entrust any of it to an offsite 105 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:05,280 cloud-based AI. Boom, one box. And the 106 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:10,800 secret sauce that I can't emphasize enough is that the VRAMm sharing that's 107 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:16,639 going on with those GPUs is done in software rather than needing a fancy 108 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:19,039 NVLink interface. Say for example, 109 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:23,919 they've got another demo here. This is a code debugging demo that's showing 110 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:30,479 corrupted video output on a Lunar Lake engineering sample right here. The model 111 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:32,880 and the context take about 96 gigs. And 112 00:08:30,479 --> 00:08:38,240 uh while this demo is actually playback rather than real time because it took so 113 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:43,360 long, what it's showing here is multiple AI agents working together to ultimately 114 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:49,120 take the corrupted video encoding output and turn it into something that works. 115 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:52,880 The mic drop moment though is the price. Unlike the consumer cards, Intel is 116 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:58,160 leaving pricing to their board partners on these. So, I can't give you an exact 117 00:08:55,200 --> 00:09:03,120 price for the B60, but they are giving us enough information about these 118 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:05,600 shockingly competent AI cards to infer a 119 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:09,279 price. Battle Matrix is expected to land in the 5,000 120 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:16,000 to$10,000 range, depending on whether you have a single B60 or up to eight. 121 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:18,800 So, by my math, that's about 700 bucks a 122 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:24,360 pop, which means that Mac Studio that I bought turned out to be, pardon my 123 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:27,519 French, a complete waste of money. But 124 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:29,839 hey, that's progress, baby. So, that's 125 00:09:27,519 --> 00:09:35,680 what's happening today. But what about the future? Intel is clearly committed 126 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:38,080 to ARC integrated graphics. And looking 127 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:42,480 at the road map for professional, not to mention the importance of AI in the 128 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:48,160 future, they're clearly committed to that. But what about us gamers? What's 129 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:51,440 the commit level there? Well, no matter how hard I pressed, they weren't willing 130 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:54,800 to talk themselves into the same traps they ran into in the leadup to Arc 131 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:58,959 Alchemist. They don't want to overcommit. But what they would say is 132 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:03,680 that they're working really hard on building a hardware development pipeline 133 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:08,480 that enables them to much more easily leverage their hardware across 134 00:10:05,519 --> 00:10:13,519 integrated gaming and professional which I'm taking as a yes. So, I hope it's 135 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:16,880 clear to everyone, the Intel folks in this room who worked so hard to bring 136 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:22,320 these products to life and put these demos together, and to you at home, how 137 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:28,000 hard it is that I am rooting for them to succeed here. 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