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Intel Launches Arc A580 GPU for $179, an Affordable Rival to Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce RTX 3050

Oğuz Çakır — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:36:32 +0000

Intel continues to expand its product line. The latest addition to the company’s successful processors is the recent Arc graphics card series. Now, the company has launches the Arc A580. Priced at $179, this graphics card targets users seeking a cost-effective solution and a smooth gaming experience at 1080p with medium to high graphics settings. Here are the details…

Intel Launches Arc A580: A $179 Graphics Card for 1080p Gaming

Intel has launches its Arc A580 graphics card, a budget-friendly gaming GPU for $179. The new Arc A580 is based on Intel’s top-tier ACM-G10 GPU, but it has a few features disabled in order to hit the lower price point. For example, it has 24 Xe-Cores instead of 32, and it doesn’t support Intel’s XeSS upscaling technology. However, it still supports ray tracing and has a number of other features that make it a good value for the price.

In terms of performance, the Arc A580 is comparable to the AMD Radeon RX 6600 and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050. It can handle most popular games at 1080p with high settings, and it can even play some games at 1440p with medium settings. Here are some of the key features of the Intel Arc A580:

24 Xe-Cores
8GB GDDR6 memory
185W board power
Supports ray tracing
Supports Intel Deep Link
Supports Intel XeSS

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Intel unveils new Arc Pro A60 & Pro A60M workstation GPUs

Sean — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 10:24:11 +0000

Intel has just launched a couple of new workstation grade graphics cards for its Arc series. The company has unveiled the new Arc Pro A60 and Pro A60M that are made to handle hefty workloads and features up to 12GB of VRAM and other capable specs. So here are all the details.

Intel Arc Pro A60 & Pro A60M GPUs launched with up to 12GB VRAM

The American tech giant has announced the two new GPU models that are built specifically to meet professional workstation requirements. These new GPUs offer 12GB of VRAM and can handle up to four monitors with HDR and Dolby Vision. The company’s new GPUs offer various improvements over their predecessor and promise to offer enhancements to handle various tasks that will be ideal for professional environments. The new Intel Arc Pro A60 and A60M offer 16 PCIe lanes and 384 gigabytes per second memory bandwidth for improved data transfer speeds.

Furthermore, the advanced AI Xe matrix helps the GPUs complete AI related tasks while 16 ray tracing units enable realistic graphics and better visual effects. Lastly, there is even full media encode and decode support including the AV1 standard for media processing. The new Intel GPUs are optimizing for workstation applications, which means taht it works well with Blender and other rendering tools. These can even run rendering and ray tracing libraries from the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit.

The new Arc Pro A60 GPU for desktop PCs will be available via authorized retailers soon. On the other hand, the Arc Pro A60M is a mobile graphics card. Meaning, we can expect it to arrive in the upcoming months through OEM partners. Intel Arc Pro GPUs will also come with 3 year limited warranty. Notably, the news also arrives as the brand is rumored to be working on Intel Meteor Lake-S chips that may debut soon.

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Intel Arc A750 mid-range GPU announced to take on RTX 3060; price starts at $289

Jeet — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 04:28:47 +0000

Intel has a new lineup of graphic processors under the Arc lineup, and the company recently announced one of the GPUs along with the 13th generation Intel Core-series chips. Now, the company has announced Intel Arc A750 GPU.

The new Intel Arc A750 GPU is targeting the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, and based on the benchmarking tests, Intel claims that these new GPUs offer more value-for-money goodness compared to the RTX 3060.

As for the specifications, the Arc A750 comes with 28 Xe cores, 28 ray-tracing units, a 2,050MHz graphics clock, along with 8GB of memory and up to 512 Gb/s of memory bandwidth, having a 225W of total power.

Intel had said that the Arc A770, which was announced a few days back, offers 42 percent better performance per dollar compared to the RTX 3060, while the A750 is touted to offer 53 percent better performance on a per-dollar basis.

Although the company is praising its own GPUs for being better than what the competition is offering, we will have to wait for the actual reviews to know for sure where they stand. It is not yet known which card manufacturers, apart from Intel itself, will build these new Arc graphics processors.

Intel Arc A750 starts at $289, while the two other GPUs from the company, A770 and A770 Limited Edition, start at $329 and $349, respectively. All three graphics processors will start shipping from mid-October.

Intel Arc GPU that can reportedly rival RTX 3070 Ti spotted in a video

Sean — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:49:05 +0000

While we know that Intel is working on new GPUs, the company has yet to reveal any official details regarding its Arc series graphics card. But now, a new Arc GPU that is reportedly capable of rivaling Nvidia‘s high end cards has just been spotted in a short video.

Just fyi I have no idea where this is from. pic.twitter.com/QEJs7D7Tmb

— Ayxerious (@ayxerious) February 5, 2022

The short video was shared by Ayxerious on Twitter. In the short video, we can see the graphics card in all of its glory. Furthermore, the fans on the GPU clearly feature “Intel” branding. Looking at the video, we can also see some other aspects of the GPU as well. The Arc GPU that will reportedly feature 512 EUs will feature three DisplayPort 2.0s along with a single HDMI port and sports a dual slot and dual fan design.

Apart from this short video, the Intel Arc series GPU was also spotted on a new picture as well. This image was shared by another Twitter user Bionic Squash and showcases the graphics card’s PCB. On closer inspection, the PCB has eight GDDR6 memory modules and 10 VRM phases. In other words, these specifications hints that the upcoming graphics card will be one of the higher end card. Separate reports have hinted at the card being a competitor of the Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti, although, that is unconfirmed at the moment.

Intel aims on supplying millions of Arc GPUs to gamers every year: Raja Koduri

Sean — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 08:57:01 +0000

With the ongoing shortage of semiconductors and materials gripping various industries across the globe, the PC components market did not fare any better. GPU prices sky rocket as there is barely any supply. But there might still be hope since Intel is looking to enter the GPU segment as well.

For those unaware, the American chipmaking giant is working on its own graphics cards, despite being known for its popular CPUs. These upcoming GPUs will be a part of its Arc series and are set to launch soon. With the PC market suffering from shortages of GPUs due to the pandemic and various other factors, many have been waiting for Intel’s Arc release, hoping that it would alleviate some of the supply constraints. And now, an executive from the company has offered some additional reassurances as well.

In a tweet, Raja Koduri, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s AXG group, stated that the chipmaker is also working on addressing the big issue that PC gamers are facing right now. He stated that Intel Graphics are seeking to find a way that lets get “millions of Arc GPUs into the hands of PC gamers every year.” Amid production taking a hit due to the pandemic and scalpers further worsening GPU prices, Intel might be a saving grace in the market.

Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs for desktops might launch in late 2022

Sean — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 13:02:34 +0000

The Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs for desktop PCs might not be arriving anytime soon. A new report has suggested that the new graphics card may not be launched until the second quarter of next year.

According to a YouTube channel called Moore’s Law is Dead, team blue is referring to its laptop GPUs when it talked about the Q1 launch for its Xe HPG (high performance gaming) products. In other words, the Alchemist desktop graphics cards might not arrive until the second quarter. Apparently, the Alchemist laptop GPUs will also launch along with the Alder Lake mobile chips, which hints at capable gaming laptops launching next year, closely followed by the launch of the desktop GPUs soon after.

Although, the delay in release might also be related to the supply chain and other production issues. The YouTuber also shared some new images in the latest video, which showcased a mock up of what these new GPUs might look like. Keep in mind that these are still just renders and not the official model of the GPU itself from Intel. Although, these renders are based on new info from several sources, as per Moore’s Law is Dead.

Furthermore, the renders are based on early engineering sample shots that the leaker had already received in the past. Although, Moore’s Law is Dead did add that most current reference test boards look similar to this early on. So, we have no idea what the final model might look like for the commercial build.

Intel explains why it is outsourcing chip manufacturing to TSMC

Ashutosh — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 05:02:47 +0000

Intel has decided to contract TSMC to mass-produce its ARC GPUs on its 6nm process. There is a whole lot of planning that goes on before finally deciding which process to follow. According to Intel Vice President Raja Koduri, “It is necessary to first determine the process that can be assumed at the start of design,” “Other features, such as how much operating frequency can be used are also important factors. Cost is also an issue. These three, that is, the cost-performance-capacity are taken into consideration when deciding which process to use. ”

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Intel has stated that Alchemist found the best equilibrium on the N6 node of TSMC. Also taking into account Intel’s delay in the process and competitive environment with big players like AMD and NVIDIA around, building a new product on a regular node could have easily impacted the performance potential of ARC GPU.

Supply issues have terribly impacted the semiconductor manufacturing industry for the past 18 months, with complex supply chains to blame. However, Intel had an edge here due to its vertical strategy and reliance on in-house designing and manufacturing. This gave Intel more flexibility to pre-plan its assembly lines and transition swiftly according to the market conditions.

There are other factors as well when it comes to GPUs. Being comparatively bigger when compared to CPUs, they require more transistors that result in fewer chips per wafer. Roughly, GPUs swell more than six times the die when competed against CPUs.

There’s, of course, a well-planned strategy to bite into the capacity of Intel’s rivals by reserving a big chunk of the N6 node for its own production. This will allow Intel to mass-produce ARC GPUs to feed the demand, while simultaneously ensuring that they remain a step ahead of the competition by occupying TSMC’s resources.

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Intel Arc series of high-performance graphics cards to launch next year

Jeet — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 03:35:33 +0000

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.