Do you want to pretend changing the CEO makes it a different company right away? Also this doesn't change the fact Intel seems not to be well prepared for the quarter results even though it was coming visible from far away. Actually it makes it worse since Intel should have done the analysis already as part of the CEO turnover.
My question in all of this is more related to the iGPU on 11th gen and 12th gen processors. What changed in the iGPU between the 11th and 12th gen that made Intel decide to drop DX9 support on the 12th gen iGPU onwards?
Are you suggesting that Intel will sell or close the GPU unit as that analyst was suggesting?
I think they will continue the compute GPUs. But dumping the dGPUs... absolutely.
DirectX earlier than 12 are all higher level which means a lot more optimizations happen on the driver level. It looks like Intel essentially completely stopped doing these driver level optimizations and went about it by not even including existing ones for DX9 after Tiger Lake, relying on translation layers instead. Seems to be a purely cost saving move which is crazy to happen at the same time as investment on dGPUs already was well underway. These are the kind of business choices that are backfiring now.My question in all of this is more related to the iGPU on 11th gen and 12th gen processors. What changed in the iGPU between the 11th and 12th gen that made Intel decide to drop DX9 support on the 12th gen iGPU onwards? In my initial cursory look at the specs on them, it seemed that there was almost nothing changed save for an update to the media block. Given how this change negatively affects performance on older games, many of which are served perfectly fine on Tiger Lake and even Rocket Lake processor iGPUs, on Alder LAke and forward, it makes for a better argument to just stick with Tiger lake processors on mobile.
No, we are in agreement on that one.I'm not talking about anything "right away". It's pretty clear I was talking about the new CEO making better "long term" bets.
To be specific the long term bet, would be to maintain work on GPUs, not selling or shutting down the GPU unit, like an idiot analyst was suggesting.
Are you suggesting that Intel will sell or close the GPU unit as that analyst was suggesting?
My question in all of this is more related to the iGPU on 11th gen and 12th gen processors. What changed in the iGPU between the 11th and 12th gen that made Intel decide to drop DX9 support on the 12th gen iGPU onwards? In my initial cursory look at the specs on them, it seemed that there was almost nothing changed save for an update to the media block. Given how this change negatively affects performance on older games, many of which are served perfectly fine on Tiger Lake and even Rocket Lake processor iGPUs, on Alder LAke and forward, it makes for a better argument to just stick with Tiger lake processors on mobile.
Sapphire Rapids problems are due to BK firing the entire server validation team and even going as putting no rehire on those guys!CEOs don't have input on every decision, they are not gods. You just can't, there's just no time for it. They are for the big decisions, like having the right people, and give them a big picture view so they can go execute. Of course when the problem gets big enough sure he'll have to get involved.
But it's absolutely silly to think he'll care about the small decisions. UI design, DX drivers, clocks, steppings. That's up to the people under him. Why have employees if a CEO can do all?
That's why smaller companies are faster. If you have a dozen people every employee can directly talk to the CEO. That doesn't happen in a company as big as Intel.
Again, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake all released under BK. The disaster took years to unfold. Same will be true the opposite way. This is not an excuse, just reality. Sapphire Rapids problems are due to BK firing the entire server validation team and even going as putting no rehire on those guys! That was many years ago!
Sapphire Rapids problems are due to BK firing the entire server validation team and even going as putting no rehire on those guys!
It's normal and been like that forever.Backordered
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Seems quite high doesn't it
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Seems quite high doesn't it
That level of performance increase is very odd.
Tomshardware tested a non public driver from Intel, in Spider-Man it boosts the performance on Arc A380.
With all the rumors of a shut down, the division employees might think they have nothing to lose. Shrout has already lied about DX9.That level of performance increase is very odd.
I wonder if intel driver optimizations are taking shortcuts?
AMD and Nvidia squeak 15% out of a driver optimization for a specific game on a good day. Intel is more then doubling performance on their optimizations for specific games. Seems just to good to be true.
That level of performance increase is very odd.
I wonder if intel driver optimizations are taking shortcuts?
AMD and Nvidia squeak 15% out of a driver optimization for a specific game on a good day. Intel is more then doubling performance on their optimizations for specific games. Seems just to good to be true.
You would know better than I. But I still want to see image quality analysis. With everything I've read, my cynicism makes me agree with @maddie. This team pulling out all the stops in desperation, would not be surprising in the least.It’s because the base driver is so poorly optimized. Leaves way more room for improvement.
That's to hedge against cheesy PSUs that don't provide anything close to the claimed wattage on the sticker.Backordered
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Seems quite high doesn't it
You would know better than I. But I still want to see image quality analysis. With everything I've read, my cynicism makes me agree with @maddie. This team pulling out all the stops in desperation, would not be surprising in the least.
That level of performance increase is very odd.
I wonder if intel driver optimizations are taking shortcuts?
AMD and Nvidia squeak 15% out of a driver optimization for a specific game on a good day. Intel is more then doubling performance on their optimizations for specific games. Seems just to good to be true.
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