The first gaming graphics cards launched by Intel under the ARC Alchemist family will compete for the interest of entry-level users against the NVIDIA RTX 3050 and AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT. Well, we can finally get an idea of the performance of the Intel A380 GPU in the benchmarks. Does it live up to what is expected?
Rumors of Intel’s first ARC Alchemist series graphics cards refer to the A3XX series, which should soon be officially announced by the company. The bet for the moment is on the entry level, this is where these GPUs with much higher power than an integrated one are found, but which are not even in the low range for games. In addition, the A380 is expected to have a suggested retail price of $ 200.
The Intel A380 GPU already appears in the benchmarks
The performance of the Intel A380 GPU already appears in benchmarks such as Sandra from SiSoftware. This confirms that the launch of this graphics card is very close and confirms several of the information disclosed on entry-level graphics cards with said graphics processor. As you can see the configuration is 128 execution units according to the old nomenclature, under the new one they are 1024 ALU from in FP32 u 8 Xe Colors. Its clock speed is 2.45 GHz with 1 MB of hidden L2. Oddly enough, the benchmark gives a total of 4,864 MB of VRAM, a figure to say the least strange
And how does it compare to its competition? Well, as you can see he is able to achieve a score of 2.869.72 Mpix / s, which is much higher than other Intel architectures in the past and is above a NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti for 1.5 GHz laptops who gets a score of 1.999.74 Mpix / s under the same repository. If we normalize at the same speed as Intel’s GPU, the entry-level RTX 30 would get 3332.9 Mpix / s as a result.
Let’s not forget that the comparison is between a desktop graphics card and a laptop graphics card, which makes us wonder if the architecture of ARC Alchemist has been left halfway. Hopefully not, in any case this is just a performance test and we haven’t seen how the first generation Intel gaming GPUs perform in their various variations yet. In addition, it should be borne in mind that the benchmarks on the A380 were applied in this case without the final drivers of the product.
Laptops will be preferred
With the performance tests of the A380 already in the air, Intel is expected to officially launch its first A3XX series gaming GPUs in laptops and not in its desktop versions, with several models to be showcased in the next few days. next days by different manufacturers. Being the A380M and A350M variants the first we will see.
Either way, it will be interesting to see how many Pat Gelsinger laptop models have successfully replaced NVIDIA and AMD GPUs in gaming laptops of different brands.
