Intel, one of the world’s leading chipset manufacturers, has announced a brand new lineup of high-performance graphics cards — Intel Arc. The first generation product under this new series will be launched in Q1 2022.
The codename of the first upcoming Intel Arc graphics processor is Alchemist and will be based on the Intel Xe HPG microarchitecture, with performance rumored to be capable of taking aim at the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070.
The company has also announced that the Arc range will cover multiple generations of graphics hardware, with Battlemage, Celestial, and Druid listed as the codenames for future generations of Intel gaming GPUs.
Intel had previously launched DG1 — a card that was released only to system builders which performs a lot like the GDDR5 version of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1030.
Currently, there’s no information available about the specifications for the upcoming Intel Arc graphics card but the trailer from the company confirms that it will come with support for modern features like real-time ray tracing and “AI Accelerated Super Sampling” that will compete with Nvidia’s DLSS and AMD‘s FidelityFX upscaling technologies.
If the current shortage of graphics cards extends to next year, then Intel has a unique opportunity of attracting gamers desperately trying to get their hands on anything in the GPU space that they can get their hands on.
As of now, we don’t have any information about the performance, pricing, or availability of any Arc cards yet but we should know more about the new Intel’s dedicated graphics cards before they go official early next year.
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