If we were to ask ourselves which hardware we expect the most in 2022, the answer would definitely be Intel’s ARC Alchemist GPUs. The mere fact that this is the entry of a new entrant in the gaming graphics card market is always good for the users and also for knowing the performance of Intel.
Intel ARC launch delay
Yes, Intel just made a small change to their ARC GPU website, specifically they removed the reference where they confirmed they would launch in Q1 2022 to talk about what will happen next. year. This greatly contradicts the message that Intel itself conveyed in its presentation at CES.
Intel’s message is confusing and contradictory regarding the release dates of its ARC GPUs. This is because the first thing we will see will be the A350M and A370M GPUs in laptopsas you are belong to the input range. There’s a good chance we’ll see ultra-thin gaming laptops with these ARC family GPUs, but the devil is in the details.
During the presentation of the Core 12 for laptops, we were able to see performance comparisons between these processors versus the Tiger Lake-H using an RTX 3080 Mobile. Right now, we expect Intel to show some performance as well with its new passionate gaming GPUs, the so-called DG2-512. The fact that they do not appear in the benchmarks published by Intel itself makes us think that its implementation is greener than we thought and that, therefore, the launch of the Intel ARC was delayed by report on the scheduled date.
The OEM market is prime
The key to understanding Intel’s ARC lag as graphics cards is its third-generation Evo platform. So far we have seen how Intel processors have been associated with NVIDIA or AMD GPUs, but especially with the former. It’s clear that with the company run by Pat Gelsinger playing all the roles, they’re going to want laptop assemblers and manufacturers to assemble computers with their own hardware, shifting their rivals into graphics cards.
As for the OEM desktops market, we do not know if Intel will deliver graphics cards to be mounted on their PCs or otherwise, it will be like with the NUC 12 Enthusiast where there is an LGA1700 socket to mount an Intel Core 12 desktop, but the ARC GPU and its VRAM are soldered to the board like a laptop. If this were to happen, the waiting time to be able to mount an Intel ARC Alchemist graphics card in our PC cases would be even longer.
With NVIDIA’s RTX 40 just months away from launch, we wonder if Intel’s ARC Alchemist will have arrived too late once it gets its hands on it. Either way, Intel is looking to move into the desktop midrange and is very focused on gaming laptops for this year. Maybe we should wait RCAF Battle Mage or DG3 for that big caliber graphics card.
