Intel currently has a zero percent market share of desktop graphics cards, according to Jon Peddie Research. And that’s hardly the company’s only issue — a few years of bad news was capped off by kissing the ring and giving a 10 percent stake to the US government . But the latest Arc GPU has given me a tiny sliver of hope that someone will step up to Nvidia’s monopoly.

It’s the Arc Pro B50 , and before you say anything, yes, this is an industrial GPU not meant for gamers. But the lower-priced alternative to the B60 shows that the company hasn’t given up on Battlemage, Intel’s second-gen discrete graphics architecture. The $350, low-profile card doesn’t require a dedicated power rail, despite some neat tricks like PCIe 5. This one’s packing 16GB of video memory, 16 Xe cores, and 16 r

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