Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs

(techpowerup.com)

51 points | by throwaway270925 2 hours ago

5 comments

genpfault 1 hour ago

600 GB/s of memory bandwidth isn't anything to sneeze at.
~$1000 for the Pro B70, if Microcenter is to be believed:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/709007/intel-arc-pro-b70...
https://www.microcenter.com/product/708790/asrock-intel-arc-...

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- hedgehog 30 minutes ago
  
  Recent kernels have SR-IOV support for these chips too. B&H has them listed for $950.
  https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1959142-REG/intel_33p...
  When 32GB NVIDIA cards seem to start at around $4000 that's a big enough gap to be motivating for a bunch of applications.
- giancarlostoro 48 minutes ago
  
  Intel GPU prices have stayed fine, but I do wonder if they are viable for Inference if they will wind up like Nvidia GPUs, severely overpriced.
- qingcharles 54 minutes ago
  
  I think the B65 is priced at $650. Both supported by llamacpp I believe. With that power draw you could run two of them.
vessenes 35 minutes ago

Not sure why you'd want this over an apple setup. M4 max is 545GB/s of memory bandwidth - $2k for an entire Mac Studio with 48GB of RAM vs 32 for the B70.

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- hedgehog 29 minutes ago
  
  Being able to keep infrastructure on Linux is a big advantage.
  
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  - RestartKernel 7 minutes ago
    
    How many compatibility issues is MacOS realistically expected to spur? Windows DX felt unusable to me without a Linux VM (and later WSL), but on MacOS most tooling just kinda seems to work the same.
- fvv 18 minutes ago
  
  with those $2k you can have 2xB70, with 1.2Tb/sec and 64G Vram, on linux ( and you can scale further while mac prices increase are not linear 0
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5 minutes ago
  
  Funny, I not sure why anyone would use Apple over Linux.
- cptskippy 27 minutes ago
  
  Support for Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV) to enable compute and Graphics workloads in virtualized environments.
- wyre 25 minutes ago
  
  one can upgrade and swap parts with a computer running an Intel GPU. Linux is very well supported compared to Mac hardware.
nickthegreek 41 minutes ago

Both have 32gb vram. Could be a pretty compelling choice.

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- cptskippy 26 minutes ago
  
  They certainly look viable as replacements for my Tesla P40 for virtual workloads.
whalesalad 28 minutes ago

Anyone running an ARC card for desktop Linux who can comment on the experience? I've had smooth sailing with AMD GPU's but have never tried Intel.

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- oakpond 10 minutes ago
  
  Running dual Pro B60 on Debian stable mostly for AI coding.
  I was initially confused what packages were needed (backports kernel + ubuntu kobuk team ppa worksforme). After getting that right I'm now running vllm mostly without issues (though I don't run it 24/7).
  At first had major issues with model quality but the vllm xpu guys fixed it fast.
  Software capability not as good as nvidia yet (i.e. no fp8 kv cache support last I checked) but with this price difference I don't care. I can basically run a fp8 local model with almost 100k token context and that's what I wanted.
- wyre 22 minutes ago
  
  There was the video a little while back where LTT built a computer for Linus Torvalds and they put an Intel Arc card inside, so I'd imagine Linux support is at the very least, acceptable.
  [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA
WarmWash 1 hour ago

Wake me when they wake up and release a middling card with 128GB memory.

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- Weryj 24 minutes ago
  
  Buy 4?
  
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  - electronsoup 5 minutes ago
    
    Which mainboards are cheap and have 4 pcie16x (electrical) slots, that don't need weird risers to fit 4 GPUs