That's going to be very dependent on your needs and circumstances. If Intel can price these right, AMD and Nvidia should keep a close eye on the competition in the coming years.Īnalysis: Is this actually worth buying at all? We don't have any idea on the pricing for the upcoming DG2 series, but if that proves to also have an attractive pricepoint, these DG1 cards might have been a pointless spend. Still, the newer, flashier Intel Arc Alchemist series is expected to launch any day now, so you might find that shipping one of these cards overtakes long enough for us to have more information regarding its successor. That's not an impossible restriction to navigate though, and shouldn't squeeze a budget for building a PC any tighter. Similarly, only Intel B460, B365, and H310C motherboards are compatible with the GPUs. Support for AMD platforms is excluded entirely, and even support for an Intel system is limited to those running processors in the Coffee Lake (9th generation) or Comet Lake (10th generation) series. As noted by VideoCardz in its own reporting, these GPUs won't work with every system. There are a few caveats outside of its underwhelming performance capabilities though. Outside of performance, all three SKUs are rocking a single fan and the same display outputs (1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, and 1x DVI-D) so they're well suited for especially compact builds if you're looking for an affordable way to make a tiny gaming desktop PC.

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