Arc Alchemist leak provides details for Intels five laptop GPUs

Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 2022 11:24:07 +0000

Description:
Intels mobile graphics cards are looking promising, and hopefully we wont
have to wait too long for them.

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Details of Intels Arc Alchemist graphics cards for laptops have been leaked, with five different models of these GPUs incoming, assuming this info is correct, naturally.

The spillage is provided by one of the regular hardware leakers on Twitter, HXL, who posted what looks like official spec details of the five cards which are NB or notebook SKUs. pic.twitter.com/ldHJS3eonP January 24, 2022 See more

There will supposedly be a flagship GPU with 512 EUs (Execution Units) plus 16GB of RAM, then next in line is a card with 384 EUs and 12GB VRAM, followed by a model with 256 EUs and 8GB, and then bringing up the rear, lower-end offerings with 128 EUs and 96 EUs which have 4GB.

All these laptop GPUs have GDDR6 memory running at 16Gbps speeds for all but the last two budget cards which are 14Gbps, with a 256-bit bus in the case of the flagship, for a bandwidth of 512GB/s.

The bandwidth of the other cards is 384GB/s (192-bit) for the 384 EU card, 256GB/s (128-bit) for the 256 EU model, and 112GB/s (64-bit) for the budget GPUs.

Intels Alchemist GPUs could start arriving from March, although given recent speculation, things could slip a little from the original intended Q1 launch (hopefully only to April, though). We dont know whether well see laptop or desktop graphics cards first. Analysis: Arc Alchemist looks to be shaping up nicely

Remember, these are laptop graphics cards, and this doesnt give us any
details on Alchemist desktop GPUs but we know they will broadly fit the same kind of configuration. Also, the details provided here do line up with what weve previously heard from the rumor mill, where for a long time, for
example, the flagship has been thought to be a 512 EU model with 16GB of
VRAM.

Speaking of the flagship, weve recently witnessed another leak this time of
a benchmark which indicates that this top dog graphics card could be a match for Nvidias RTX 3070 Ti .

In short, Intel might come in with a pretty sweet offering towards the higher-end of the GPU spectrum, particularly if Team Blue can use its mighty resources (and filled coffers) to facilitate some competitive pricing, in order to make inroads to the desktop market which is currently dominated by Nvidia (with AMD as the relatively minor player).

With laptops, though, there could be just as much excitement around what the budget GPU minnows will be able to pull off, particularly when you consider that Intels Deep Link tech is thrown into the mix. This can boost performance in an all-Intel system, by intelligently sharing and adjusting resources between the Intel CPUs integrated Xe graphics and the discrete Alchemist GPU and it could help to realize some seriously peppy affordable laptops, with
any luck. These are the best graphics cards

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