throwaway2709252d ago

Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs

https://www.techpowerup.com/347703/intel-announces-arc-pro-b70-and-arc-pro-b65-gpus-maxes-out-xe2-battlemage-architecture

Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs, Maxes Out Xe2 "Battlemage" Architecture

Intel today announced the Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 graphics cards for advanced AI compute workloads on workstations, and professional visualization. The two primarily target local inferencing, software development, and deployments in multi-GPU configurations for rack scale AI GPU compute accelera...

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Show threadwhalesalad
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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Show threadwyre2d 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

Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds

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Show threadoakpond2d 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 small fp8 local model with almost 100k token context and that's what I wanted.