It’s confirmed. Intel is officially set to announce its first ARC Alchemist discrete GPU at the end of this month on 30 March, with the first wave of GPU products expected to be for the laptop market.
In conjunction with this rather joyous occasion, the chipmaker has already set up a dedicated page for the event, with the title “A New Stage of the Game” written on it. As per the information that follows, the event will kick off at 8AM Pacific Time, which is 11PM for us on the same day. Further, the message also confirms that the first discrete GPUs to be announced during the event will be for laptops, and not desktop graphics cards.
While the page itself contains no further information, Lisa Pearce, Vice President and General Manager for the Visual Compute Group at Intel, confirmed in a separate post that one of the first discrete mobile GPUs that will be launching is the A370M. In that same posting, Pierce goes on to say that the A370M should produce as much as two times an improvement in graphics performance versus a CPU’s integrated GPU alone. This claim, by the by, was obtained through benchmarking Metro Exodus at Full HD resolution, with graphics fidelity set at the Medium preset and using the DirectX 12 API. Other specifications of the laptop used to test the mobile GPU include an Intel Core i7-12700H and 32GB of DDR5-4800MHz RAM.
Intel has promised over the months since it first announced its ARC GPU series that it plans on launching its 1st generation Xe-HPG GPUs, otherwise known as Alchemist, for both mobile and desktop this year. In the case of the desktop GPUs, those are expected to launch sometime in the second quarter of this year.
(Source: Intel, Videocardz)
