MAXSUN Announces Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo Featuring Two Battlemage GPUs for AI Workloads

Unfortunately it's only really good for compute loads and not for workloads like gaming... unless maybe streaming where one can be dedicated to maintaining and running your stream process/encoding and the other to the game... but that's a niche of a niche use.
 
Yeah, here's hoping the dual b580 rumors pan out to become something because that might be an interesting gaming card. This however is a non-gaming card but if the price is right and could be well under $2K would be a serious competitor to NVIDIA's prosumer products. A single B60 is said to go for around $500 so double, and mark it up a bit means in the $1500 range and NVIDIA doesn't have an AI offering that I know of at that price point with similar specs as this.
 
Might finally see something lowering the price of 5090s then. AI spend has been a big issue with them flying off of shelves. 2 or more of these cards even up.to four in a ai box would be amazing.
 
What's the power draw on the b60's? Single and Duo? I am a but curious. Cost of operating is a big part (for me anyways) of a buy decision too.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
Yeah, here's hoping the dual b580 rumors pan out to become something because that might be an interesting gaming card. This however is a non-gaming card but if the price is right and could be well under $2K would be a serious competitor to NVIDIA's prosumer products. A single B60 is said to go for around $500 so double, and mark it up a bit means in the $1500 range and NVIDIA doesn't have an AI offering that I know of at that price point with similar specs as this.
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Unlikely on the dual B580, I bet if it comes out, it will be a compute/AI card.

Either intel figures out how to make dual gpus work as one, or intel gets developer support for multigpu games. I don't see either happening.
 
Elf_Boy said:
What's the power draw on the b60's? Single and Duo? I am a but curious. Cost of operating is a big part (for me anyways) of a buy decision too.
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Peter_Brosdahl said:
There's slides in the post with specs for them and this.
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I'm seeing the "120W to 200W" figure, and thinking that's rather absurdly on the low side for two GPUs? I'd expect closer to the 500W to 600W range...
 
Stoly said:
Either intel figures out how to make dual gpus work as one, or intel gets developer support for multigpu games. I don't see either happening.
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Yeah, that's where my doubt lies as well, especially when it comes to developer support. It doesn't help that they probably don't have anyone inhouse with deep dual-GPU configurations either. I could be wrong but seems unlikely.
 
I'd like to get my hands on a few of these to toss in our cluster just to play with. See what they can do.
 
Yep, that slide is just for the B60 and not the Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo. Although I did mention it in the paragraph below it I wasn't as clear as I could've been. Sorry about that.
 
A lot of media reporting on this is simply including MAXSUN's PR stuff and/or linking to something for Intel but I wanted to include Intel's official spec slide for added info since MAXSUN's didn't give all the details but I do apologize if it made it a little more confusing.
 
Stoly said:
Unlikely on the dual B580, I bet if it comes out, it will be a compute/AI card.

Either intel figures out how to make dual gpus work as one, or intel gets developer support for multigpu games. I don't see either happening.
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Just to be clear. Intel is developing and has drivers to allow multi gpu function... for COMPUTATIONAL work. meaning for AI and other such work with a rather decent list of supporting vendors. you can actually take 4 of these cards (so 8 GPU's) if you have enough PCIE lanes. (8 each) and have 192GB of vram for your computational loads.

Hence this will be a huge draw to those wanting usable AI systems without dropping HUGE bucks on the nvidia solutions.

I fully expect the entry point for these cards price wise to be 3k.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
Yeah, that's where my doubt lies as well, especially when it comes to developer support. It doesn't help that they probably don't have anyone inhouse with deep dual-GPU configurations either. I could be wrong but seems unlikely.
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There has been rumors of AMD, nvidia and Intel have been working on multigpus gaming cards for over a decade. The promise of making multigpus work as one has not yet been fulfilled. I'm not sure why is it so hard as DX12/Vulkan were supposed to make it easier.

I recall rumors of multigpu going into consoles as well, don't see it happening either.

What I do see in the near future are separate shader, RTX and AI (tensor) cores.
 
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