<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>r-bar</author><text>They also seem to be the most willing to open up their GPU sharding API, GVTG, based on their work with their existing Xe GPUs. The performance of their implementation in their first generation was a bit underwhelming, but it seems like the intention is there.&lt;p&gt;If Intel is able to put out something reasonably competitive and that supports GPU sharding it could be a game changer. It could change the direction of the ecosystem and force Nvidia and AMD to bring sharding to their consumer tier cards. I am stoked to see where this new release takes us.&lt;p&gt;Level1Linux has a (reasonably) up to date state of the GPU ecosystem that does a much better job outlining the potential of this tech.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=IXUS1W7Ifys&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=IXUS1W7Ifys&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeswin</author><text>If Intel provides as much Linux driver support as they do for their current integrated graphics lineup, we might have a new favourite among Linux users.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/intels-arc-gpus-will-compete-with-geforce-and-radeon-in-early-2022/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stormbrew</author><text>This is the main reason I&amp;#x27;m excited about this. I really hope they continue the very open approach they&amp;#x27;ve used so far, but even if they start going binary blob for some of it like nvidia and (now to a lesser extent) amd have at least they&amp;#x27;re likely to properly implement KMS and other things because that&amp;#x27;s what they&amp;#x27;ve been doing already.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeswin</author><text>If Intel provides as much Linux driver support as they do for their current integrated graphics lineup, we might have a new favourite among Linux users.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/intels-arc-gpus-will-compete-with-geforce-and-radeon-in-early-2022/</url></story>