sykozis:

Nobody knows how long these cards are going to be supported. This is a new venture for Intel and given how willing their current CEO is to sell off parts of the company, we don't even know for certain if the new graphics division will even be part of Intel in a year. We need a third vendor in the GPU space to hopefully bring pricing back to reality. If we dismiss these cards now because we don't know what's going to happen 3+ years from now, we'll be right back to 2 vendors and even higher prices. For the AMD and NVidia fanboys..... Realize this... If Intel doesn't succeed, we're very likely to see graphics card pricing continue to increase and eventually become out of reach for most of us.

The high prices began because of a critical materials shortage in 2020 for a solid year, at least. Scalpers, etc. I'm certain AMD will be releasing lower-cost GPUs in 2023, so the current $900-$1000 (bargains compared with nVidia's current) will not be the only 7000 GPUs to be released. Cost is higher now because people want 20-24GBs of vram, and 60+ at 4k, max quality, HDR & the limited ray tracing currently offered. Long before Intel decided to throw its hat in the ring, both AMD and nVidia were selling cheaper GPUs in the $200-$400 ranges, but they were dog slow compared to what people apparently want today, too. Slow vram, very little vram comparatively, etc. No HDR, no RT, etc. Too add insult to injury we also have to contend with inflation, globally--mostly due to the stupidity of politicians everywhere, but that's another subject. Whether Intel stays in the GPU business long term is indeed a question. But I don't think it will keep Nvidia and AMD from competing with each other, regardless of what Intel does.

Good on benchmark, poor on real world gaming.