Fuck yes. I don’t have first-hand experience, but by most accounts, the Battlemage GPUs were a huge improvement over Alchemist. If Celestial follows a similar path without jacking up the price, it could be amazing for the average PC gamer.
How’s their driver support on Linux?
Intel always has top tier Linux drivers these days.
Plug and play mostly, think you need an extra one for the media engine
This seems very quick after Battlemage.
These are very early stage developments. I think the bigger takeaway is the Intel C series dGPUs are indeed happening.
This is a still running test simulations of the design. Once that is done they will hand it to the Fab which has its own work to do beyond “just make it”. After they do have actual hardware, there will probably be a lot more testing and driver refinement.
