Introducing the graphics card brand ARC about seven months ago, Intel announced that it would enter the graphics card market, where NVIDIA and AMD compete fiercely. It was said that these graphics cards, which were announced to be named mainly through RPG game characters, would almost challenge the RTX series.
After a long wait, Intel finally introduced its first graphics card series, the Intel Arc Alchemist (Arc A for short) series of graphics cards. The company also announced that the A-series graphics cards will debut for laptops first.
Here comes the Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs
Intel will make performance classifications for graphics cards, just as it does for its processors. For now, 2 models of GPUs to be used in these graphics cards, which will be called Arc 3, Arc 5 and Arc 7, will be presented to us. These GPUs, named ACM G-10 and ACM G-11, will be produced in accordance with the performance classes we have just mentioned.
ACM G-11 model is a GPU with 8 cores and 8 Ray Tracing units. Yes, these graphics cards will have Ray Tracing support. Although no details are shared about the performance of Ray Tracing units, it is expected that this information will be announced soon.
On the other hand, when we look at the ACM G-10, the big brother of the G-11, we easily understand that this GPU is the original product of Intel. This device, which has 32 X-cores and 32 Ray Tracing units, In terms of performance, it seems to have almost 4 times the power of the G-11. Of course, Intel announced that the Arc graphics cards that will be produced for the desktop will be much more powerful.
Graphics cards that will use ACM G-10 and G-11
The GPUs mentioned above are of course only the beginning part of the work. The main point will be the graphics cards that Intel will produce using these GPUs. As we just said, these graphics cards will be classified as Arc 3,5 and 7. Currently, two graphics cards are introduced in the Arc 3 and 7 series, and 1 graphics card in the Arc 5 series.
The two models of the Arc 3 series, the A350M and A370M, are mid-level graphics cards designed for use in entry-level computers. The A550M in the Arc 5 series will be the budget-friendly mid-range graphics card of the family.
However, the situation is a little different for the heavy brothers of the family, the A730M and A770M. For easy understanding, if we accept the A730M as the RTX 3050, we can say that the A770M is equivalent to the RTX 3080. When we look at the A730M and A770M, we can say that there will be a performance difference of at least 50% between these two high-end graphics cards.
Arc graphics cards will be able to support 2 8K displays
Of course, these graphics cards also need a good display adapter. This unit, called Xe Display Engine, will be able to power 2 8K 60 Hz monitors or 4 120 Hz monitors simultaneously. The settings of the Xe Display Engine, which supports connections such as Display port and HDMI, can be controlled from the desktop with a software called Arc Control.
Arc graphics cards will also have different modes such as Smooth Sync, Adaptive Sync, Speed Sync, which we can call “advanced V-Sync”. These graphics cards, which will come with DirectX 12 Ultimate, will work in harmony with Intel processors and use systems called Hyper Encode and Hyper Compute. These systems will enable graphics cards to work with full performance not only in games, but also in jobs such as modeling and video editing.
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