Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads

Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads by lisplist on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:39PM (#50347312)

Intel GPUs are pretty worthless right now for inference, let alone training. Which isn't to say that there aren't people getting value out of them, but from a dollars/wattage/sanity to performance, there's no point to buying anything but Nvidia for most people and businesses. I don't want this to be the case, but that's just how it is currently.

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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads by lelanthran on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:42AM (#50348517)

> Intel GPUs are pretty worthless right now for inference, let alone training.

Why? Is it hardware limitations or deficient software stack?

In any case, as nvidia is ignoring the gaming market, AMD and Intel both have a vacuum to fill, but I don't see them doing it.

Intel, especially, should have rushed out gaming cards as soon as nvidia shortages were predictable (2023, at least).

The problem I have is not that an old GPU can't be used for gaming (it can), it's that I am forced to upgrade from a perfectly working 660ti that once played far cry 3, 4 and 5 (and every other game I threw at it) because my kernel doesn't have support anymore (older drivers don't work on a newer kernel).

A new GPU with the power of a decade-old GPU but all the latest software support would be great. Right now, if I want to see certain web-pages (WebGL), I have to buy a new GPU, but there isn't any low-priced GPUs anymore.

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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads by jasomill on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:25AM (#50351157)

Define low price, because looking at sold listings on ebay, you can get a used RTX 3070 for around $250, which is as capable as any 10-year old 8 GB card, and certainly more capable than a 660 Ti.

Still not great given that I paid about the same for a new-in-unopened-box RTX 3070 a couple years ago, but price increases no lower-end cards without enough VRAM for AI at least haven't skyrocketed like the top end of the market.

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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads by lisplist on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:22AM (#50354001)

Memory bandwidth is really low on most of the cards - even if you hyper-optimized the software stack, can't get around that. Compute isn't great either.

I think the cards are probably fine for gaming though. I haven't used these cards, just the numbers I've seen floating around are pretty underwhelming.

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