Today, you are no longer a person in the world if you do not have your own GPU architecture, which Intel has taken very seriously over the past three years in the development of its graphics architectures. So, one of the weaknesses of the company founded by Gordon Moore has been addressed in recent times and after a long wait since we started hearing about Intel’s return to the graphics card world, so soon we will see the results.
The architecture of ARC Alchemist will consist of a type of Shader core called Heart. What interior will have 128 ALU and FP32, a unit in the style of NVIDIA’s Tensor Core, but optimized for XeSS and with support for ray tracing. And is Intel targeting the company’s chinstrap in green and launching graphics cards for gaming that will compete in the mid-range against the RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti, and RTX 3060, and could even hit the RTX 3070? You.
ARC Alchemist GPUs are now obsolete
The first generation of GPUs designed for gaming use the ARC Alchemist architecture, for which Intel has developed two different chips. The first one called DG2-128 will be aimed at the entry level to compete with the NVIDIA RTX 3050 and RX 6500 XT, but this is not in the interest of master racing PC gamers.
This is the second chip that interests the gaming market, since we will see it compete both in the low range of graphics cards for gaming and in the average. And what is the release date? Intel was planning to launch its new graphics cards in January 2022, but they delayed them until the end of the quarter. That is to say, will be released in march. It is also said that Intel has already distributed the first ARC Alchemist GPUs to graphics card manufacturers and assemblers, so we will have custom versions from manufacturers such as ASUS, GIGABYTE and many more.
These would be your technical specifications
With the ARC Alchemist for games release date, we’re interested in knowing which models we’ll see in store. At the moment, we do not know what name Intel will give them, but we do know the configurations that we will see.
Starting from the high end, the first thing we come across is a GPU with a configuration of 32 car cores, your bus is from 256 bits for your GDDR6 18 Gbit / s Yes 16 GB capacity. As for the speeds, they will oscillate between 2.2 and 2.5 GHz, while its consumption will be 225 W for desktop, although faster versions are expected thanks to the use of PCI Express power connectors that would allow them to reach the 275 W and even the 300 W of consumption. If we are already talking about its version for laptops then its TDP will be between 120 and 150 W.
The same bullet will be used to create two cropped variants, the first with 24 hearts, a 192-bit bus 16 Gbps GDDR6 Yes 12 GB capacity of your VRAM. Desktop graphics cards with such a configuration will have a TDP between 150 W and 200 W, while in laptops they will be among the 80 and 120 W. As for the last of the variants, we didn’t know about it until now. At the moment, only gaming laptops will be released and it has a configuration of 16 hearts, a 128-bit bus and, therefore, of 8 GB by heart.
Therefore, what Intel has in store justifies the premature moves by AMD and NVIDIA, as it plans to strike in all segments and in one go. There are less for March.
