One of the things Bill Gates did when he was president of Microsoft was take job postings to guess what the competition was working on and be able to strategically get ahead of them. Something very similar is what insiders and hardware information leakers do, because when they don’t have any leaks from companies, they look for their information by digging into drivers who usually have problems. references to products that will be launched in the short and medium term.
This made it possible that a few weeks after Intel’s presentation at CES, it was possible to find out what the initial lineup of its ARC Alchemist GPUs will be.
Intel ARC Alchemist range unveiled?
Thanks to an analysis of the graphics driver in its version 30.0.101.9999 It was possible to find out what is the nomenclature of Intel’s graphics GPUs, as well as which will be the first to appear on the market and, therefore, it has been possible to know what will be the initial line of ARC Alchemist.
The graphics controller has revealed the first four ARC Alchemist chips we’ll see. The first two are for laptops and are called A350M and A370M, while the desktop versions are called A350 and A380. Everything indicates that these GPUs would not be efficient, but rather compete with the entry-level NVIDIA RTX 3050 and it’s just filed MX550, both based on the GA107 chip. As for AMD’s riv al, it would be the RX 6500 and RX 6400
Another graphics chip that has been revealed is the Iris Xe A200M, which will accompany some models of Alder Lake architecture processors for laptops, but not as an integrated GPU, but as a separate chip. It is not part of the ARC Alchemist architecture and therefore of its different nomenclature. This is most likely a rebranding of the Iris Xe Max.
The enthusiastic range will come later
We know that Intel has two different chips designed for its first generation of gaming GPUs and everything indicates that it will be with the most modest that they will present them at CES for their subsequent marketing. It is not known for the moment what will be the nomenclature that will be used in graphics cards that use the DG2-512 chip as GPU, since so far only information on the DG2-128.
We know this from the fact that not so long ago information of the Intel ARC Alchemist A380 was leaked, which has 1024 ALU
In any case, those of Jensen Huang did not take the blue brand too seriously when they entered the market, since they prepared a test of their RTX 30 in response, where the one that stands out the most is the Model 3090 Ti and How Us Fast-forwarding to the start of the week, the RTX 3070 Ti 16GB and RTX 3080 12GB are lagging behind.
