Intel enters desktop dGPU market

[joniboini]

Most miners prefer AMD and Nvidia, so miner developers will write the best software for popular video cards. Recently, many new coins have been released, where Intel video cards will not show good performance in mining.Some coins can be mined on this video card, but now it is not profitable.

That is understandable. From recent threads on social media, it seems that Intel's driver is slowly improving, albeit still not on par with their competitor. It sounds like they work better with Vulkan/DX12 and re-bar enabled. Considering there have been rumors that Intel may have to kill its graphic division, I don't think it is wise to invest heavily into them if mining is what we're looking for. Not for the next few months, or years maybe.

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[FP91G]

Most miners prefer AMD and Nvidia, so miner developers will write the best software for popular video cards. Recently, many new coins have been released, where Intel video cards will not show good performance in mining.Some coins can be mined on this video card, but now it is not profitable.

That is understandable. From recent threads on social media, it seems that Intel's driver is slowly improving, albeit still not on par with their competitor. It sounds like they work better with Vulkan/DX12 and re-bar enabled. Considering there have been rumors that Intel may have to kill its graphic division, I don't think it is wise to invest heavily into them if mining is what we're looking for. Not for the next few months, or years maybe.

AMD and Nvidia have released new series of video cards that are faster than Intel and have a competitive price. It will be very difficult for Intel to compete with competitors, especially when GPU mining is mostly unprofitable or brings very little profit.

[styleshifter]

SRBMiner Multi has just added support for Intel Arc GPUs
Check his thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5190081.msg61680066#msg61680066

[FP91G]

INTEL ARC A750
https://www.hashrate.no/gpus/a750

INTEL ARC A770
https://www.hashrate.no/gpus/a770

INTEL ARC A380
https://hashrate.no/gpus/a380

The big problem is that there are no miners for new algorithms yet, and on old coins this video card will lose to older generations of Nvidia and AMD. I would like to see NEXApow hashrate.

[styleshifter]

The big problem is that there are no miners for new algorithms yet, and on old coins this video card will lose to older generations of Nvidia and AMD. I would like to see NEXApow hashrate.

lolMiner has added basic support for Intel Arc Desktop GPUs in verison 1.62 on the following algorithms: ETC, ETC+KAS (1), Kaspa, Flux, Ergo, Beam (2) & Equihash 144/5 (2)
Fees are equal to Nvidia and AMD GPUs on the corresponding algorithms.
Tested Intel OpenCL driver versions are 22.24.23453 and 22.32.23937.

(1) Only on the 8G+ Intel GPUs: A580, A750 and A770
(2) Beam and Equihash are experimental on Intel GPUs. Also see known issues when running multiple cards.

[FP91G]

The big problem is that there are no miners for new algorithms yet, and on old coins this video card will lose to older generations of Nvidia and AMD. I would like to see NEXApow hashrate.

lolMiner has added basic support for Intel Arc Desktop GPUs in verison 1.62 on the following algorithms: ETC, ETC+KAS (1), Kaspa, Flux, Ergo, Beam (2) & Equihash 144/5 (2)
Fees are equal to Nvidia and AMD GPUs on the corresponding algorithms.
Tested Intel OpenCL driver versions are 22.24.23453 and 22.32.23937.

(1) Only on the 8G+ Intel GPUs: A580, A750 and A770
(2) Beam and Equihash are experimental on Intel GPUs. Also see known issues when running multiple cards.

ETC, ETC+Kaspa, Kaspa, Flux, Ergo are better to mine on AMD 5000 series video cards. For example, the RX5600 will show very good power consumption at $130. I'm not sure Intel will win this battle. If the price of these coins rises a lot, then there will be enough space for all video cards, but I do not believe in it.

[safar1980]

Intel says Game On, Arc A750 GPU is now cheaper
Intel announced a price cut on their mid-range GPU to tackle GeForce RTX 3060
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-drops-the-price-of-arc-a750-gpu-to-just-249-new-driver-gets-performance-improvements

[joniboini]

Intel says Game On, Arc A750 GPU is now cheaper
Intel announced a price cut on their mid-range GPU to tackle GeForce RTX 3060
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-drops-the-price-of-arc-a750-gpu-to-just-249-new-driver-gets-performance-improvements

The price cut is around $30 if I read it correctly. Around 10% if we compare it to the previous price. Some reviewers said the card is competitive if you accept that you have to deal with driver issues here and there for gaming, don't know how it will compare to mining though. Not to mention AMD card at around the same price can give better performance in most scenarios. It is quite smart for them to compare to 3060 since the card is still a bit pricey in most region, including mine.

[FP91G]

Last week NVIDIA sold more RTX 4070 Ti cards than all Radeon RX 7000 & Arc Alchemist combined
According to the most recent sales data from TechEpiphany, NVIDIA has sold over 500 units of GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards.
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-rtx-4070-ti-dominates-weekly-gpu-sales-at-german-retailer-more-cards-sold-than-rx7000-arc-combined

Intel has poor sales statistics in Germany.