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1:37 Intel Arc summary, 3:16 summary on Intel, 7:30 my thoughts on Intel, 10:07 AMD summary, 10:42 what is chiplet design, 13:11 example of chiplet design possibilities, 14:14 AMD 7900XT thoughts, 16:26 encoding

I did my best to summarize all the news related to the two video cards and share my thoughts on the matter. I think some of what is said is being blown out of proportion or things are not being mentioned

Given that it is likely that a discussion regarding video cards for gaming is happening, I will put this recording in the gaming category

TLDR:

Intel's Arc that showed up as an Engineering sample is supposedly the flagship. It beat the 3070 Ti in compute performance. I have yet to see it be tested in games. As Gamers Nexus pointed out, it will likely lack the technology or software that Nvidia or AMD has which will lower its performance

Intel does have a history of scummy corporation practices. It is nothing new but they have taken things quite far. My hope is that when it releases that they won't do any of that. Either way it is competition. That means potentially lower prices

AMD's 7900XT will be their first chiplet design video card. Chiplet designs are present in their processors at this time but this will be a first for video cards. Chiplet designs offer many advantages in production, research and development. For the consumer, it likely means flagship performance at a lower cost

I did mention the ARM plastic processor as an example to show what you can do with chiplet designs. If AMD can make use of a plastic process in their design, that would change a lot of things

I think the AMD 7900XT will be a gaming video card given that it is using the same family numbering and lettering as the 6900XT. 6900XT's are capable gaming video cards

To finish this recording, I did talk about encoding. The 7900XT will give AMD an advantage however.. I think in order for them to have more of an advantage, they should create higher wattage APU's with a hybrid encoder

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/290450-chiplets-are-both-solution-and-symptom-to-a-larger-problem

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amds-chiplet-design-allows-them-to-reduce-cost-of-the-ryzen-9-3950x-by-half.html