How is Team Blue positioned for 2024?
For the past decade, there wasn’t a better combination than having a top of the line Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU when it comes to PC gaming. Now, things have definitely changed. The introduction of Intel’s Arc line-up of GPUs have put both Nvidia and AMD on notice. They offered DirectX 12 Ultimate compatibility, ray tracing, resolution upscaling and came with a respectable amount of VRAM.
Besides coming in around 2022 at an approachable price, they’ve also gone the third-party manufacturer route as well. The Arc GPUs may currently lack the performance benchmarks of Nvidia and AMD but reception has genuinely been positive. One year in, reports have found that Intel has 4 percent of the GPU market with plenty of room to grow.
Intel’s bread and butter has been CPUs and the company managed to recently secure 61 percent of the general market against AMD. As 2023 inched toward a close into the new year, Intel began rolling out its Meteor Lake processors which also ended its “i” naming tradition for its Core line of processors.
Socket desktops will also soon be getting Arrow Lake as well. The approaches Intel has taken to CPUs and GPUs sees the company making a fresh start for itself and here how we think the new year will play out for them. Various improvements on Arc GPUs
We appreciated the Intel Arc A750 alongside the higher Intel Arc A770 for being able to provide respectable 1080p and 1440p performance. However, they both trailed behind low-to-mid tiered offerings from both Nvidia and Intel as mentioned previously. Problems that crossed both Intel GPUs included a ridiculous usage of power, ray tracing alongside upscaling that wasn’t up to par, compatibility with older Direct X games and even some newer games.
