You can tell by the shape of the board that it's meant to go into a server chassis behind a stack of 80mm blower fans. It's not meant for consumers, but you will be able to buy it used for $200 off ebay in 7 years to put in your home lab.
you won't be able to buy it for $200 in 7 years. 7 year old GPUs are still going for more than that, and take into account inflation and demand for these things. My bet is that you will not be able to buy it not even for < $4000 in 7 years
Wonder if there will be consumer video drivers for these GPUs once the AI hardware shortage is over. Hope to buy a gaming rig one day that doesn't cost a fortune.
in latest gamersnexus video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4c2FSSaCsw Wendell from Level1 Techs was showing some older Amazon dedicated server GPUs with no video output that got hacked community driver making it work like laptop dgpu copying rendered video across PCIe.
As has been claimed every year for the last 30, at least. Much like predicting the end of the world, one day, if you keep at it, you'll actually be right.
Intel ai gpu division is so aggressively anti “small” consumer. I think it has something to do with low volume and a small sales/distribution network. The data center cards I have from amd and nvidia are grey market at best. I don’t think intel moved enough units to establish alternate channels.
You can tell by the shape of the board that it's meant to go into a server chassis behind a stack of 80mm blower fans. It's not meant for consumers, but you will be able to buy it used for $200 off ebay in 7 years to put in your home lab.
you won't be able to buy it for $200 in 7 years. 7 year old GPUs are still going for more than that, and take into account inflation and demand for these things. My bet is that you will not be able to buy it not even for < $4000 in 7 years
Wonder if there will be consumer video drivers for these GPUs once the AI hardware shortage is over. Hope to buy a gaming rig one day that doesn't cost a fortune.
You can vibe-code the drivers. Someone just did that with the Nvidia drivers for Intel Macs, bless their soul.
I dont think it has a video out
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in latest gamersnexus video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4c2FSSaCsw Wendell from Level1 Techs was showing some older Amazon dedicated server GPUs with no video output that got hacked community driver making it work like laptop dgpu copying rendered video across PCIe.
In 2 years once it fails and Intel shuts it down completely you mean :)
As has been claimed every year for the last 30, at least. Much like predicting the end of the world, one day, if you keep at it, you'll actually be right.
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Wonder if today's ram will go up price by then...
It is going up one way or another- the price of money will go down - @5% inflation over 8 years the value of today’s dollar will be 67.7c .
> Can I actually buy this?
No. Certainly not now, maybe not ever. That is the least consumer-focused product page I've seen today.
Intel ai gpu division is so aggressively anti “small” consumer. I think it has something to do with low volume and a small sales/distribution network. The data center cards I have from amd and nvidia are grey market at best. I don’t think intel moved enough units to establish alternate channels.
How so? You can walk into Micro Center and buy a B70 right now. Intel is the only one to offer license-free SR-IOV too.
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Serious question, would they bother?
You can work with 10 players that will buy all of them with minimal effort.
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