The article notes that this points to a driver issue, and given the driver improvements made by Intel on their previous Arc GPUs I would be surprised if this issue isn’t ironed out in future patches. It is a bit hyperbolic to say Battlemage is DOA based on driver issues alone,. especially so recently after launch. It also notes that games do run, but some games see 10-20% lower performance at the moment.
Wrong go catch up on the recent updates
Do you have a link, I haven’t been able to find any articles specifically referencing battlemage bottlenecking on budget current-gen CPUs.
Edit: Nevermind, I found this: https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/arc-b580-performance-issues
The article notes that this points to a driver issue, and given the driver improvements made by Intel on their previous Arc GPUs I would be surprised if this issue isn’t ironed out in future patches. It is a bit hyperbolic to say Battlemage is DOA based on driver issues alone,. especially so recently after launch. It also notes that games do run, but some games see 10-20% lower performance at the moment.
Hardware unboxed have covered this as have others. The driver issue is at this stage believed to be unlikely the cause.