Intel CEO confirms Arc Alchemist cards will launch by June

Date:
Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:00:31 +0000

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger assured investors during an earnings call that the
Arc Alchemist desktop graphics cards will be launching by June 2022.

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger confirmed this week that Arc Alchemist desktop graphics cards will launch in Q2 2022.

"AXG [Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group] is on track," Gelsinger said . "And we launched the mobile SKUs. We'll have the desktop
SKUs coming in Q2. And we'll have more SKUs as we go through the year as
well. We'll be filling out the product line."

Back in February, Intel announced that "AXG expects to ship more than 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022 in an investor press kit before confirming that their launch would be delayed until May or June of this year. Analysis: Will the Intel Arc Alchemist be worth the wait?

Though its pretty clear that Intel has launched the Arc Alchemist mobile GPUs first in order to test them out before the all-important PC launch, Intels flagship desktop GPU looks promising.

We saw reports back in January that Intels Arc Alchemist XE 512 GPU could rival the Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti in power, with a leaked SiSoftware benchmark showing that the XE512 scored 9,017 Mpix/s compared to the RTX 3070 Tis 8,369 Mpix/s.

The rumor mill also revealed that the flagship desktop GPU could have as many as 4,096 Execution Cores with 16GB of VRAM and a clock speed of 2.1GHz,
though its not clear whether thats base or boosted.

Needless to say, were definitely looking forward to June 2022 when we can get our hands on these cards to test ourselves. Intel Arc Alchemist laptops finally listed in the US and UK, but you can't buy one yet



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