Tag Archives: Arc Alchemist

After many months of speculation, rumours and reports, Intel has finally revealed what's under the hood of its yet unreleased Arc Alchemist Arc GPUs. We've known about the specifications of the A380 since it was first launched in China, but up until now we've been kept in the dark about the A580, A750 and A770...

If you're considering buying a new prebuilt system or laptop for yourself, you may be interested to know that Intel is preparing a software and game bundle worth over £300. Only select laptops and prebuilt desktops equipped with Alder Lake CPUs and Arc Alchemist GPUs will be eligible however. The …

Intel recently released a new graphics driver for its Alchemist GPUs that brings some welcome fixes. However, these fixes aren't directly related to gaming. Instead, they're targeted at the Arc Control GPU management software, which is now included with the driver. Intel's latest graphics driver (31.0.101.3277), which can be downloaded …

Intel's first desktop Arc Alchemist GPU, the A380, has been available in China for a while now, but had not launched elsewhere. That is finally starting to change, with the ASRock Arc A380 Challenger ITX graphics card set to arrive in the US starting this month.  Newegg recently began listing …

Intel appears to be having trouble with DX9 on its new, modern GPUs. As a result, Intel is changing things up and will drop DirectX 9 support on Arc and Xe GPUs, and will instead use an open-source mapping layer to emulate DX9 using DX12. 

It is no secret that Intel's Arc Alchemist GPU rollout hasn't quite gone to plan. The few GPUs to release so far have limited availability, and the most promising desktop graphics cards have yet to launch at all. Still, Intel is hoping to turn things around soon.  This week, Intel …

MSI has just introduced its first Arc Alchemist graphics card, making it the latest addition to Intel's AIB partner list. Like most other Arc A380 desktop graphics cards, MSI's A380 is only available in China at the moment, and is only shipping inside of select pre-built PCs. Aside from the …

It's hard to ignore the fact that Intel's Arc Alchemist GPU rollout has been going very slowly. For now, only the entry-level A380 desktop GPU has launched, and only in select regions. The more capable A750 and A770 GPUs are still due ‘this summer', but according to a report this …

The first Intel Arc Alchemist desktop graphics card, the A380, can now be paired with a water block. Bykski has created the first GPU water block for the Gunnir Arc A380 Photon 6G OC graphics card.  The Bykski I-GNA380-X GPU block (via @Haze2K1) is only officially compatible with Gunnir's A380 …

Intel's open-source Vulkan graphics drivers for Arc Alchemist GPUs just brought in a pretty major upgrade. It turns out a small coding error was leading to a massive reduction in ray-tracing performance. With the code fixed, ray tracing performance has reportedly improved by up to 100x...

Intel's A730M laptop GPU should begin appearing in consumer laptops soon. Some units have begun going out to testers recently, resulting in new benchmark leaks. Unfortunately, the scores indicate that this particular offering may not match up well against the RTX 3060.  If Intel's targets for the Arc flagship GPUs …

Intel has recently released a Beta DCH driver for its existing Arc Alchemist GPUs. However, after analysing the code, users found references to unannounced graphics cards, including what seems to be the Arc desktop line-up and workstation GPUs for laptops and desktops. A screenshot showing the list of cards supporting the …

New rumours about the Intel Arc Alchemist desktop line-up have surfaced, stating which Nvidia and AMD GPUs each A-series GPU will compete with. So far, it seems that Intel has models lined up to compete with everything from the entry-level to more capable gaming GPUs.  According to sources on Bilibili …

Currently, Intel Arc powered laptops are few and far between, but slowly, these new mobile GPUs are making their way into the hands of reviewers. Some early results for the Arc A350M have been somewhat disappointing, but it turns out that early testers may have been limiting performance. After retesting …

There was concern over Intel's Arc Mobile GPU launch this week, as few OEMs have begun announcing new laptops with Arc graphics equipped. The first Intel Arc laptops are on the way though, with the first units from Samsung arriving in South Korea, with other OEMs expected to launch new laptops 'in the coming weeks'. 

When Intel launched its Arc Alchemist mobile GPU line-up, availability for Arc 3 powered laptops wasn't supposed to be far behind. However, there has been a weird absence of new laptops. Now, it looks like the first Intel Arc A-series laptops won't be available for quite some time. 

When Intel revealed the specifications of the Intel Arc A-series mobile GPUs, many commented about the relatively low ‘graphics clock'. As it turns out, clock speeds are reported differently on Intel's GPUs compared to Nvidia and AMD graphics cards.  During an interview with HotHardware (via Tom's Hardware), Intel's Tom Petersen …

You may know by now that Intel's mobile discrete GPU offerings are based on two distinct units: the ACM-G10 with 32 Xe-cores and ACM-G11 with 8 Xe-cores. However, it seems there will be a third unit, presumably called ACM-G12, with 16 Xe-cores.

When Intel announced its new Arc A-series laptop GPUs, it also began teasing its upcoming desktop graphics cards. While showcasing the Arc Control software suite, Intel seemed to go a step further and reveal specifications for one of its desktop GPUs.  Intel Arc Control Centre's Live Performance Monitoring works much …

As the debut of the Arc Alchemist GPU approaches, a leaked table showing the specifications of Intel Arc Alchemist mobile gaming GPUs has appeared online. In this table, you can see the specifications of five different SKUs, as well as the release period for each of them. According to the …

There are multiple GPU launches coming over the next few weeks and months. Not only is the RTX 3090 Ti on the way, but Intel will also be launching Arc Alchemist GPUs, and AMD is rumoured to be refreshing a select few RX 6000 series graphics cards. Now, GPU-Z supports …

Intel has always claimed that the first Arc Alchemist GPUs would launch in Q1, but following a no-show at CES, the clock has been ticking down fast. It seems that Intel will just about meet this release window, with a graphics-focused event set to take place on the 30th of …

New rumours suggest the new Ryzen CPUs and Radeon RX 6×50 XT GPUs may come simultaneously. However, it may be a bit later than you think, as both reports point to April 20th. In addition, it seems we'll see the first Intel Arc Alchemist desktop GPUs shortly after, between May …

With Intel Arc Alchemist desktop graphics cards coming in Q2 2022, we are starting to see a few benchmark entries of the engineering samples hitting the Internet. This was the case in the Geekbench database, where an Intel GPU with 512 EUs was spotted running at 2.4GHz. According to the …

Considering how often we're seeing Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs being tested in benchmarks, an official launch shouldn't be too far off. This time around, a leaker found two new benchmark results for the Intel Arc A380 (desktop) and the A370M (mobile) GPUs, giving us an interesting look at performance.  Leaker …

The GPU market is in shambles and has been for some time. Graphics card prices are through the roof and 2021 saw an array of lacklustre launches from both AMD and Nvidia, who many accuse of cashing in on the crisis. Fortunately for Intel, however, such events have conspired in their favour as the company is now presented with a monumental opportunity to seize the discrete GPU market. They simply can't miss - can they?

A lot of us were hoping that Intel would reveal more about the Arc Alchemist GPUs during CES 2022. Unfortunately, that didn't happen, but that doesn't mean the company isn't working on them. Twenty new Arc Alchemist PCI IDs were recently spotted in the Linux Mesa graphics drivers, but so …

With Intel's CES 2022 keynote coming in just a few hours, we have new details to share with you about one of its upcoming desktop graphics cards. The specifications of the Arc A380 desktop graphics card have just leaked, alongside a new benchmark result giving us a good idea of …

By now, most of you know Intel is planning to launch the first Arc Alchemist graphics cards next year, but there are successors already planned and based on new reports this week, it looks like Intel will be upgrading fairly quickly. According to an Intel Arc community advocate, we might …

With Intel's 12th Gen Core processors starting to roll out, the company is also releasing a new graphics driver to accompany them. As you would expect, this new driver brings support for the new Xe iGPU found on the new processors, but digging through the files reveals references to a …