Intel Arc B580

I've been using an Intel Arc (b580) GPU for Secondlife for the last year and it's been miserable for SL and SL only. My laptop's 50w 1660ti outperforms it in SL even at 4k. [...] Also scrolling effects in-world seem to destroy the Arc's performance specifically.

My current GPU is an Intel Arc B580 and before then it was the A580. [...] well, not insane for the value (or lack thereof) that they have. A 245K would still be an improvement over my current 5800X, though I have no idea what they were thinking of with that pricing - if their CPU prices were as competitive as their GPU prices (vendors ignoring MSRP be damned), that sidegrade release might have not been as horrible. [...] Though when I buy Intel, it's mostly so I don't give even more money to Nvidia and support competition in the market (otherwise my build would be all AMD).

I had the Quest 2 a while ago and did manage to play some games on it (PCVR through Virtual Desktop, cause they didn't have 1st party support for Intel Arc B580). In regards to shooting games, while some of them were nice (especially modded H3VR, all of the guns you could build etc.), the shooting and movement always felt off - rounds not always going where you'd think they should regardless of the game, aiming being a bit clunky especially with scopes and so on, same with some RPG combat games. [...] It's perhaps the best way to fly in War Thunder because the proper depth perception completely changes the feel of it (if they'd fix the damn camera, I don't want to break my neck trying to look far back), same with VTOL VR and racing games like Dirt Rally and even Euro Truck Simulator 2. You'd think I'd get motion sickness or something but no, it just felt good and more proper than staring at a flat screen, despite the limited resolution and all else. [...] There was also some cool productivity software like Immersed but they kinda ruined it by removing support for multiple physical monitors and also the Virtual Desktop program and SteamVR won't let you display like 4x1080p monitors all at the same time, what's even the point of being limited to just one or two in VR? You have 360 degrees around you (well, or however much your neck can comfortably do)!

For what it's worth, I daily drive Edge on my Windows machine and it's an okay browser, haven't had a reason to install Chrome in ages (though did run Firefox for a while due to liking their dev tools better, it's still on my MacBook cause I like the UI more than Safari). Even when my Intel Arc B580 has its drivers freeze the browser, I can just kill the GPU rendering process and it picks back up with no data loss, whereas with Firefox I had to restart the whole thing. [...]

[...] With a 5800X and an Intel Arc B580 at 1080p and high graphics, the game runs at around 200 FPS. [...] Instead you get something that runs at like 10% of the render resolution and still doesn't get 60 FPS (I'm not exaggerating, literally the performance I got in The Forever Winter). There's no good technical reason for things to be that way (Unity still exists, and the games made in it struggle less) other than the devs or the higher ups choosing higher fidelity but more expensive rendering technologies and using upscaling and framegen not as something that helps laptops or when you need the spare GPU capacity (e.g. [...] I also don't see anyone particularly caring about regular software, Electron et al are just too convenient to develop in (having to create per-platform UIs sucks in already-overworked teams).

[...] Unfortunately sometimes my Intel Arc B580 has a driver quirk where all the windows freeze and unlike Chromium based browsers I can't open Task Manager and kill the GPU Process and have it restart and have everything keep working, but rather have to kill the whole browser and restart it and hope the tabs load back correctly - thankfully haven't had many issues with losing those (only once or twice in the past year, but those were fucking annoying). Either way, I explored both Edge as my daily driver for a year or so and also Safari on my Mac - both are actually fine as far as the user experience is concerned, but in the end I still come back to Firefox. [...]

[...] Post last week I put in an Arc B580 and I had some issues at the start, but that's more to do with the fact that my workstation has a Haswell Xeon v3... [...]

[...] I ended up getting an Intel Arc B580 for around $300, which I thought was a better value than getting a used GPU off eBay. [...]

I recently had some issues with a game not working well on my Intel Arc B580. OpenAI (Anthropic's models definitely could too) ran some profiling inside of Windows, captured a few GB of data, sifted through it, identified the guilty .dll's and approximately where the issue was and traced it down to a single user-toggelable Unreal Engine 5 launch flag, which resolved it. I feel like AI could easily do the same for servers and various software, BUT you gotta ground it in actual data so it can't make the shit up and just spew out garbage (if you tell it to come up with a potential answer it will even if it doesn't have the proper data to be "sure" of it).

FWIW, I have managed 10 simultaneous live transcoded streams on a ARC B580 and it could have managed a few more. [...]

I was looking at used video cards to use with Davinci Resolve, then I noticed that Intel's latest GPU was a good value. Last week I bought an Intel Arc B580 card. [...]

Even the Arc B580 GPUs could have been a bigger win if they were actually ever in stock at MSRP, I say that as someone who owns one in my daily driver PC. Yet it seemed oddly close to a paper launch, or nowhere near the demand, to the point where the prices were so far above MSRP that it made the value really bad. Same as how they messed up the Core Ultra desktop launch, of their own volition - by setting the prices so high that they can’t even compete with their own 13th and 14th gen chips, not even mentioning Ryzen CPUs that are mostly better in both absolute terms and in the price/perf. A sidegrade isn’t the end of the world but a badly overpriced sidegrade is dead on arrival. [...]

[...] He said only that they will attempt to squeeze more money from the existing Granite Rapids, which uses CPU cores that are obsolete in comparison with AMD Zen 5 and in comparison with Intel's own CPU cores from consumer products. [...] I have recently bought an Arc B580, for the reason that while all the other vendors have reduced their FP64 performance, Intel has increased it, matching or exceeding in performance per dollar the GPUs that could still be bought 5 years ago (like Radeon VII) for which no replacement has existed at other vendors.

So I got my new PC to load windows 11 last night and the PC is running perfectly!! I named my PC Palpatine because of the Intel arc b580 card In there lol