Well, little by little the existence of this third ARC Alchemist graphics card is confirmed. Named ACM-G12. Which should be between the performance of the NVIDIA RTX 3050 and the RTX 3060 once launched in the market. Facing AMD in terms of performance, its rival is the RX 6600 XT. We’ll see how the third ARC Alchemist plays out.
The number of different names by which Intel graphics cards for gaming have been known is to say the least. We’ve seen them dubbed DG2, Xe-HPG, and in their commercial launch as the ARC Alchemist, but within that family there are different chips in terms of size. What we knew not so long ago as SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3. Well, just a week ago SOC1 was renamed ACM-G10 and SOC2 AMC-G11. As you can see in the slide below these lines.
Intel’s nomenclature of names for its graphics cards adds more confusion to the already well-known tangle of names. The problem arises when between the two chips there is one with intermediate specifications, which is called ACM-G12. Which makes everything more confusing. It’s as if the RTX 3060 is the most powerful graphics card than the 3070 and therefore the one after the 3080 in terms of performance. We wonder what led Intel not to develop the ACM-G12 GPU with the other two ARC Alchemist chips, as many of us wish we had it in our hands already.
Intel ACM-G12, the third ARC Alchemist GPU
Its existence is not a secret from the moment it was leaked through drivers such as SOC3, so it is a new GPU that will be in the mid-range. Your specifications? This is composed of 16 Xe cores, which means 2048 ALUs in FP32 in total, doubling the specifications of the ARC 3. It is expected that be released as ARC 5 and you haven 128-bit bus for laptops and 192 bit for desktop. It therefore technically doubles the performance of the ARC 3, in addition to providing 8 and 12 GB configurations respectively.
The name of the graphics chip or GPU, as we have already revealed to you, is ACM-G12. Which shows that it was designed after the other two chips. Not in vain, all of Intel’s promotional material and all of the photographs of their ARC Alchemist so far didn’t show it at any point. This third chip must therefore be in a much less advanced development period.
So, other than appearing in the slides, no products have been announced. Knowing the specs of its two siblings, the rest of the specs are easy to guess. For example, you are expected to have an 8 MB L2 cache. Regarding its PCI Express interface in its version for laptops, we don’t know if it will be in 8 or 16 lines, but what we do know is that it has 2 Media Engine Vehicles and 4 Xe Display Engines. Characteristics that it shares with the rest of the range. About its release date, at the moment we do not know.
