According to Intel, they plan to price the cards based on how they perform in DX9/11 titles, so one could arguably look at their much better DX12/Vulcan performance as a bonus relative to the competition. I hope they release them soon.īasically, Intel's lack of experience in the discrete GPU driver space will prevent their GPUs from being competitive with older APIs for quite some time.They could easily still be 'competitive' in games utilizing those older APIs, even if performance won't be where it could be.

It gives people an opportunity to take a smaller chance (in terms of money) to check them out and increases the userbase to better detect problems to be solved. Reviews will give more information and buyers can then better choose based on the performance value in the games they play and expect to play.Įdit: I also think that Intel releasing cheaper, smaller gpus initially works out well with these deficiencies. Looks like Intel will be similar to AMD in this, only with the driver deficiencies and improvements being relatively larger. Some like AMD gpus better because they are a better value in the games, settings they play, and others who like different games, settings that are a better performance value with Nvidia can't understand why somebody would prefer AMD.

More specific information would be better, but we will get that with reviews.ĪMD and Nvidia already have performance differentials in different APIs with AMD still lagging, but improving recently with the older ones on their RDNA2 arch.

It is good for that information to come out.

Directx 11 support