I’m interested in benchmarks to compare to my current RX 6650 XT, which is pretty similar to the 4060.
It has 12GB VRAM, which might be enough to mess around with smaller LLM models, but I really wish they’d make a high VRAM variant for enthusiasts (say, 24GB?).
That said, with Gelsinger retiring, I’ll probably wait until the next CEO is picked to hear whether they’ll continue developing their GPUs, I’d really rather not buy into a dead-end product, even if it has FOSS drivers.
12GB VRAM in 2024 just seems like a misstep. Intel isn’t alone in that, but it’s really annoying they didn’t just drop at least another 4GB in there, considering the uplift in attractiveness it would have given this card.
I doubt it would cost them a ton either, and it would be a great marketing tactic. In fact, they could pair it w/ a release of their own LLM that’s tuned to run on those cards. It wouldn’t get their foot in the commercial AI space, but it could get your average gamer interested in playing with it.
It wouldn’t cost much, but this way they can release a “pro” card with double the vram for 5x the price.
Got the same card and you can definitely run smaller models on 8GB. There’s no need to pay 200-300 bucks for a 4Gb ram upgrade though. Might be a nice card for people on the lower end but not in our cases. But yeah, I’d really like more vram too, especially with how expensive the higher end cards get - which AMD won’t even bother with anymore anyway. Really hoping for something with 16+ GB for a decent price.
Yeah, I really don’t need anything higher than 6700/7700 XT performance, and my 6650 XT is still more than sufficient for the games I play. All I really need is more VRAM.
If Intel sold that, I’d probably upgrade. But yeah, 12GB isn’t quite enough to really make it make sense, the things I can run on 12GB aren’t meaningfully different than the things I can run on 8GB.
