Fuck yes. I don’t have first-hand experience, but by most accounts, the Battlemage GPUs were a huge improvement over Alchemist. If Celestial follows a similar path without jacking up the price, it could be amazing for the average PC gamer.
How’s their driver support on Linux?
Intel always has top tier Linux drivers these days.
I saw an unconfirmed rumor floating around (which I didn’t look into but which I imagine could maybe be done semi-done using like LinkedIn and that sort of thing?) that a significant amount of the GPU driver team was laid off in one of the prior culls, with the rumor implicitly saying that was why the driver overhead thing didn’t really get addressed.
Kinda worried about long-term support on the driver front if the company as a whole is still generally struggling, especially with that unconfirmed rumor which may or may not be substantially true in mind X_X
Funny thing was that the Intel C series dGPU rumors were based on Linkedin data too.
This seems very quick after Battlemage.
These are very early stage developments. I think the bigger takeaway is the Intel C series dGPUs are indeed happening.
This is a still running test simulations of the design. Once that is done they will hand it to the Fab which has its own work to do beyond “just make it”. After they do have actual hardware, there will probably be a lot more testing and driver refinement.
