We’ve said it many times, we want Intel gaming graphics cards to be a tangible reality that we can install in our computer to test their performance and breathe some life into the often annoying duopoly between NVIDIA and AMD. The latest information that has leaked? well the Intel ARC Alchemist desktop models.
At the moment, the only mention we have of the Intel ARC Alchemist in traditional graphics form is an image released by Intel itself in its March presentation. Its final launch is scheduled for the summer and also that at that time the different models created by the graphics card manufacturers will be unveiled. Who are those who also manufacture motherboards with Intel chipsets. Thus, the relationship between the company currently headed by Pat Gelsinger and its partners is the same as that which AMD has with them.
Given that they are currently focusing on laptop versions, it’s only fitting that, given Intel’s launch planning, information on tower PC models is coming in a dropper. However, there are leaks about the different models of the Intel ARC Alchemist for desktop and they don’t seem to be the same as for laptops.
7 would be the ARC Alchemist graphics card models for PC
When Intel unveiled its ARC Alchemist nearly a month ago, they showed the following slide to talk about the different levels of performance that were part of the lineup:
However, these models correspond to the laptop version and according to leaker Komachi Ensaka, we could see a total of seven ARC Alchemist models in graphics card form, some of them would have 1:1 correlation with laptop models. While we’d expect a higher clock speed from a desktop, there aren’t the cooling and power consumption limitations that there are in a laptop.
The ARC A770 and ARC A750 would have the same GPU and therefore with the most powerful configuration. The difference would be in the capacity of the GDDR6 memory chips used. These ARC Alchemist models should use the reference model that Intel has already shown us. In reference to ARC A780, we don’t think this is a new chip, but a binning of it. That is, a version that can reach higher clock speeds and would have a little higher power consumption. We have to point out that we don’t see the A730 model anywhere.
Now if we go to the bottom of the table, and leaving out the A580, we have the A380, A350 and A310 which will have configurations with 8, 6 and 4 Xe-Cores respectively, but all are based on the same chip. In terms of performance, they will be placed to compete head-to-head with the AMD RX 6500 and the NVIDIA RTX 3050. However, we don’t know its benchmark model yet.
