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Why can't it run on budget computers? The reviews the seen at far have been positive.
It can't run on CPUs that are older than 6 years. This is a non issue for regular users.
Exactly. The type of person buying a $250 GPU is likely to be running a recent budget CPU (i.e. first build, pre-builts, or entry into new CPU socket), not an older, higher-end CPU that's still relevant.
And your wrong.
Its severely impacting current gen budget processors smashing performance by 35% or more. Catchup on the reviews over the past few days.
Ok, I just reviewed them quickly, and I see this:
So all I see are dubious claims by Nvidia about products nowhere near Intel's lineup with the cheapest one going for $550 (>2x higher than Intel's top end) and the most expensive going for $2000. If those are interesting to you, you aren't the target market for Intel's GPUs, and if Nvidia's are too expensive and you're unsure about Intel's GPU, you'll wait to see what options AMD launches with, and there's a lot of room between Intel and Nvidia.
So I'm not exactly sure what the new releases change that you're claiming.
Hardware canucks 5 days ago(the intel arc B580 is broken), hardware unboxed 4 days ago (B580 overhead issue upgraders beware) and then updated with more testing 3 days ago to address skeptics (B580 overhead issue Ryzen 5..).
The performance loss is worse in older processors so it will impact the upgrade market the most which will be this card. Its a budget card perfect for upgrades. Not any more.
Yes, all of that is for old systems, like 6+ years old, as was stated earlier. Intel has been clear about needing a recent-ish CPU (Intel 10th gen or AMD 3000 series) with resizeable bar support enabled. So if you're seeing terrible performance, options are:
If you're building a new system or upgrading from an APU, the B580 is a phenomenal deal. If your system is 6+ years old, you'll probably want to upgrade your CPU anyway.
Wrong go catch up on the recent updates
Do you have a link, I haven't been able to find any articles specifically referencing battlemage bottlenecking on budget current-gen CPUs.
Edit: Nevermind, I found this: https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/arc-b580-performance-issues
The article notes that this points to a driver issue, and given the driver improvements made by Intel on their previous Arc GPUs I would be surprised if this issue isn't ironed out in future patches. It is a bit hyperbolic to say Battlemage is DOA based on driver issues alone,. especially so recently after launch. It also notes that games do run, but some games see 10-20% lower performance at the moment.
Hardware unboxed have covered this as have others. The driver issue is at this stage believed to be unlikely the cause.
Very recently found the architecture has a serious bottleneck that cripples performance on low end cpus. Not very old cpus, current generation budget processors that results in unexplained 35% or more performance loss.
Reviews have updated and are being updated since about 3 days ago now with the recommendations going from great budget card to "stay very far away".
See hardware unboxed for detail