Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Your Intel Arc Questions Answered!”.
Yeah, damn uh. Damn we have some questions from people. Do you want to talk a little bit more freestyle, or do you want to start? Let’S do questions because you know one of the first questions is hey um. Are you guys engaging with the open source community? How is how is your linux support going to be for this card? Well, i can tell you that our linux support is going to be great. We already have an open driver for linux right, so it’s it’s we’re not in the same position as some of the other companies that have a little bit of schizophrenic relationship. Uh. We are open source oriented right now. Can i remind you guys um his employment history. He formerly worked for a green card, it doesn’t matter it’s not about that. He doesn’t have, but he doesn’t have any insider knowledge. He was actually the receptionist, so i don’t want it to seem like he’s, throwing shades, i’m not throwing shade on anybody that we are very open. I want to get that out there. Thank you.
Thank you, we’re very open and uh, so our linux community, i think most of them realize that we do open standards like if you think open standards. You should start thinking. Where did these come from? Well, a lot of them came from intel, yeah yeah.
I mean intel wasn’t going to go and embrace a closed standard like g-sync, for example, great technology, great technology, personally, a fan but intel they’re going to wait for adaptive. Sync. Obviously right! Yes! Well, you know my history about that. So i’m very excited to say that we do support adaptive sync and we also have a couple other really cool sync modes like uh, smooth, sync and another thing that we’re calling what’s the last one called smooth sync fast, sync, so all of it. What’S the difference? Think that’s right! It’S not fascinating.
It’S a smooth, sync, it’s fascinating kind of or whatever it is yeah the last one. Is it like a like a reflex competitor like no? No, it’s actually really cool. It’S like when you have when you have tearing like when you’re running, really fast, this mode actually blends the two frames so think of it. It works with all monitors, but what we’re doing is we’re saying we can’t get rid of tearing, but we can actually make that transition less jarring.
Now it works all the time. Yeah the latency advantage of not having any kind of sync yes, but i i’m assuming that would rely on the machine learning hardware. No, no, no! No, it’s just a traditional blend so think of it. It’S in our display logic. So as we’re scanning out lines, we kind of know when a new frame shows up smooth, smooth sync smooth. Thank you.
Thank you, ryan. So that’s features available. It works with all games because it’s in our display hardware and it’s vendor neutral and it you know it’s going to work on all arc.
It’S pretty cool that is actually super cool. We have a video for you. Maybe we could give it you can. You know cut it in if you want it’s pretty cool now. I would like to hear from you guys if you have any other questions.
This is going to be the one and only opportunity to chat with these guys live about this here may not be the only thing. I know that you got um okay, i mean uh a crane. I don’t think they’re gon na be able to answer that answer. That yeah i mean like hey what day? Is it going to be available? How much is it we’re not going to answer price we’re not going to answer specifics on performance and we’re not going to talk of specifics on a date? Rain wants to know if there will be a 900 trim or a 700 is the highest. Can you address that say if you can’t right now we have a three family, a five family and a seven seven family, and that’s where our plan ends right now now, whether someday we change that, maybe you know we always we always think into things, and i Know intel added a nine uh yeah, but right now no plan, we have enough names, we got products to fill it and that’s plenty well, the way i think of it intel restored the nine because we all knew there was supposed to be a core i9. Many years before they finally gave us the only like marginally upgraded core i9 wasn’t core i9 supposed to be the branding for the original hedt 1366.
I can’t was it not, it was. Was it seven? It was seven, it was seven seven, so it was really confusing because you had core i7s on the consumer platform and then you had core i7s on the hedt platform and it stayed like that for very confusing years very competitive. So you know, will we have a nine? Maybe you know we’ll we’ll see as the products, but i think you can make something nice i think it comes down to like we’ve got. I think the naming structure you come up with is actually super useful because it it doesn’t elicit direct connection to the competition yeah right.
A the a series means alchemist. Next generation will be b, it’ll be battle, mage and then you’ve got the three five seven and then you can use any of the numbers after that, for your performance, please respectfully request something, of course, do you guys have influence within the ark business unit? Oh, yes, no, not so much yeah. No, we definitely do yes, but what does he though? He definitely does he does he and i are buddies. We’Re like connected okay, okay, until one of you is fired? Well, if i get fired, then he is going to be the man.
Can you guys stick to your guns? Keep the naming scheme sensible, yes make it, so it’s really good right now as media and as a consumer, because you guys actually did do a great job of that intel like intel does not always do a great job, nvidia and amd many times have seemingly intentionally Obfuscated, the meaning of their of their model numbers we’ve seen rebrands, we’ve seen reuse of the same numbers which, from a consumer standpoint, is a nightmare because if you’re going and you’re troubleshooting something and you search for i’m trying to think of you search for amd 6800, I was thinking about they have gpus uh nvidia has actually reused uh what man, what was it that they ah there’s, definitely stuff they’ve reused, there’s there’s numbers that have been used by both amd and nvidia. So if you search for 80, this, oh yes, 480 yeah. Four 280. 280.
480. 280. 480. These are both great examples.
So what i would respectfully request is that you guys stick to your guns. Three, five, seven is your tears. The letter is your family. I don’t care if this particular letter, if j, isn’t that cool okay, if if, if jellybeans i like j, if arc arcgis 77d looks like looks like some kind of swear word in some kind of cyrillic script in sanskrit or something like please for for for consumers, Stick to your guns, but it’s not just for consumers right.
It’S like also for my sanity yeah as well. Yes right, i would like to mess with his sanity, but we won’t okay. We will not. I have a. I have a question that i’m gon na i’m gon na merge kind of a question for myself and a question from the audience they’re asking about um you mentioned earlier.
This is exclusive. This it’s limited edition, limited edition, okay, so uh, a certain other company that may not be named. Uh sells certain limited edition stuff, maybe like just through best buy or whatever else is this directly? Is this limited edition directly from you guys or or how is i i would expect that to show up in multiple channels in the us and worldwide intel’s distribution is.
I could even answer that question the way intel’s distribution works is it’ll, go through dusty and then there’s multiple people and then, whether whether there’s an exclusive arrangement or not dusty’s gon na send a bunch of them out the back door to mom and pop shops anyways. It’S all gon na work out. Even if intel wanted this to be best buy exclusive.
I pretty much promise you it wouldn’t be. Yes, that’s not, i think our intent. I think people really like the look of that, because i’m getting a lot of questions that are basically like.
Can i get this? Yes? Can you can you grab it? Can you pick it up again for a second shroud? Is that still framed for his hands? No, it’s okay, it doesn’t it doesn’t matter i’ll, just i’ll hold it and explain it so, the way they did the rgb on this is actually super. Classy uh, the top bar. Oh, are you gon na? Are you gon na fire it over to me, oh cool? How nice is that what’s wrong, one whoops wrong one! Now we’re talking now what time’s a charm uh the way they did. It is actually super classy and i’m not just shilling, i’m not being paid to tell you this not today. Anyway, i expect payment tomorrow, um, there’s uh, there’s a nicely diffused, rgb light bar along the top. The intel arc logo right here is also lit, and then it’s really subtle the way they’ve done it with the fans from the front you actually wouldn’t know.
So if you’ve got a case that has a vertical gpu mount, this thing is going to look absolutely sick. It will because the rgb is diffused and it’s recessed, so it’s around the outside of the fan and they could have gone tacky. They could have absolutely done like a translucent fan, blade or something along those lines.
They decided not to they kept it classy, and i think it looks absolutely awesome. .