Amazon has the Acer A770 on sale for $250. That’s a lot of compute with 16GB of VRAM for $250. There is no better value. It does have it’s challenges. Somethings like MLC Chat run with no fuss just like on any other card. Other things need some effort like Oob, Fastchat and BigDL. But support for it is getting better and better everyday. At this price, I’m tempted to get another. I have seen some reports of running multi-GPU setups with the A770.
It also comes with Assassins Mirage for those people that still use their GPUs to game.
Intel GPUs are an option in the 1-click installer. So, ideally, it’s the same as installing a nvidia or AMD GPU. Ideally. We aren’t there yet. You can monitor the issue here. But the fact that they have a pinned Intel discussion to go with the pinned Mac and AMD discussions I think speaks to the commitment.
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/1575
FastChat is suppose to support multiple Arcs. But since I only have one I can’t confirm that.
"The most notable options are to adjust the max gpu memory (for A750 --max-gpu-memory 7Gib) and the number of GPUs (for multiple GPUs --num-gpus 2). "
https://github.com/itlackey/ipex-arc-fastchat/blob/main/README.md