Intel ARC Pro

[Macker]

I've just seen that the new Intel Arc Pro series of cards has been announced, and whilst they don't appear to be as computationally impressive as the high end Nvidia cards, they do appear on paper to give a lot of bang for their buck - 24GB VRam on the B60 Pro, with the ability to pool that VRAM when using multiple cards?

https://wccftech.com/intel-arc-pro-b...l-gpu-variant/

I see Chaos is listed as having support for the cards, which is interesting.

Can anyone from Chaos shed some more light on this?

Will Vantage/Enscape/Envision/VRay GPU be able to run on these, and crucially will they be able to access the pooled VRAM when multiple cards are present?

Many thanks,
Chris

[Vizioen]

At 500$ for 24GB I would even buy 3 if memory would be poolable, would still be 50% cheaper than 1 RTX 5090 . Question is how do they perform and how do they perform in other applications like Unreal etc.

[AKlypin]

I'm interested in Intel compatibility also as it could be a low-cost on-ramp for GPU rendering.
According to the Vantage help docs, Intel Alchemist and newer have been supported for some time, however within Vantage it looks like Nvidia DLSS is still the only supported real-time upscaler, with Intel Open Image being supported but not recommended as a production denoiser. In VRay.
Version 7 recently changed the preferred GPU engine to CUDA which suggests against a pivot to AMD and Intel compatibility in the near future.
Enscape runs on almost anything (I've run it on AMD integrated laptop graphics before - not great, but definitely compatible).