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Intel announces the Arc B580 and Arc B570 GPUs priced at $249 and $219 — Battlemage brings much-needed competition to the budget graphics card market (www.tomshardware.com)
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Throwing down the XeSS 2 gauntlet while dropping the ray traced mic.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been out of the loop for a while so please help me here.

But I've been waiting for a long while for a GPU to replace my GTX970 that can just run modern and upcoming games for a few years at 60 fps in 1080p without all the excess cost, size and power consumption required for 4k or raytracing. It must also run well in Linux (screw you nvidia). That card does sound like exactly what I've been waiting for.

Where's the catch? Is there one?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago

    I would wait for 3rd party reviews, but so far it looks like an insane deal for 1080p and even 1440p gaming.

    First generation had growing pain issues, but they had worked everything out by now.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I am pretty sure the 1st generation of these cards did not work well on linux which is the only catch I can see although that was much more unrefined then this generation seems to be so might wait a couple months and see how driver support is doing before jumping on one of these cards

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