Intels most powerful Arc GPU could be coming to gaming laptops

Date:
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:41:57 +0000

Description:
A leaked benchmark shows what looks like Intels beefiest Alchemist graphics card in a gaming laptop.

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An unidentified Intel Xe graphics card which has just been spotted in a
leaked benchmark looks like its a laptop version of Intels Arc Alchemist discrete GPU , teasing the possibility that we might see the beefiest
flagship solution in gaming notebooks next year perhaps.

PC Gamer spotted the Geekbench 5 result as flagged up on Twitter by a less familiar source for us, though still one which has provided previous spillage , namely Benchleaks, so plenty of salt here as ever but its a very interesting sighting. [GB5 GPU] Unknown GPUCPU: Intel Core i7-11800H (8C 16T)Min/Max/Avg: 4547/4581/4575 MHzCodename: Tiger LakeCPUID: 806D1 (GenuineIntel)GPU: Intel XeAPI: Open CLScore: 34360, -59.6% vs RTX 2070VRAM: 12.64 GBhttps://t.co/Ux8hj3mwuO September 7, 2021 See more

As you can see, the GPU is only named as an Intel Xe discrete graphics card running in a Tiger Lake laptop, but it has 512 EUs (Execution Units) meaning it certainly isnt a current Xe laptop card, and that EU count corresponds
with Alchemist, and the top-end configuration of Intels incoming Arc gaming GPUs. Its shown with a clock speed of 1.8GHz, though that could be pushed higher with the release version. We'll show you how to build a PC These are the best processors for your PC Check out all the best PC games

Remember that Alchemist isnt expected to debut until early in 2022 , and weve no idea yet when laptop versions of these discrete cards will figure into the mix, so this is obviously still an early sample chip.

Due to that, the result of 34,360 for the OpenCL score isnt something we can draw any real conclusions from, save that it seems to be in the right
ballpark for such an early pre-release product. Besides, Geekbench is far
from the best place to be evaluating a GPUs performance, anyway (theres much better benchmarking software out there for that job). Analysis: Great news
for gaming on the go?

Obviously we need to be careful here, but this certainly looks like a tantalizing hint that before long well have some seriously powerful new
gaming laptops. If a notebook can pack an Intel Alder Lake CPU with its
major design innovations on the mobile front , with the hybrid architecture offering clear advantages for laptops alongside a flagship Alchemist GPU,
the potential performance leap in gaming during 2022 (maybe relatively early in 2022) is something to get excited about that.

Think of it this way: weve got what could hopefully be a seriously powerful Arc GPU driving frame rates, coupled with all the battery benefits Alder Lake promises to bring to laptops, and that should make for not just gaming notebooks with more grunt, but models which can last for a bit longer on the move too. These are the best graphics cards



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