Koduri admitted that Intel still has catching up to do in the department, but the company did just announce a new driver update that purportedly makes older DirectX 9 games like League of Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive run faster - much faster in some cases - on the Arc GPUs.

While Intel has serious work to do in making market share gains against Nvidia and AMD, the company first must ensure its GPUs are optimized to run well across a wide range of games and applications, particularly older games that are still popular. Koduri didn't rule out Intel eventually releasing discrete graphics products that require more power to eke out higher performance, but he said these would be more for 'bragging rights.' However, Koduri told Gadgets 360 that 'performance-per-dollar competitiveness with AMD and Nvidia wasn't the goal.' Instead, Intel views that metric as a 'baseline' and hopes to outcompete its rivals with features like AV1 encoding and decoding as well as real-time ray tracing and upscaling techniques, the latter of which can meaningfully boost gaming performance at higher resolutions. AMD's 96-core Epyc CPUs leapfrog Intel to put DDR5, PCIe 5.0 in the datacenter.

AMD says transistor tech will keep Moore's law alive for 6 to 8 years.AWS follows AMD and Intel down the specialized chips path.GPU shipments saw biggest nosedive since noughties recession.While both Nvidia and AMD are expected to release less expensive cards in the future, their strategies to initially focus on high-end graphics comes in contrast to Intel's focus on mid-range and lower-end products that are more affordable.

Intel graphics cards