Intel's gaming graphics card is branded: Arc. And as soon as the name is revealed, there is a delay in the luggage: to the year 2022. Once again, the rumor mill, which recently speculated about a date at the beginning of next year, was once again right. Intel originally announced the end of 2021.
4 products in the coming years
The first products based on the Intel Xe HPG microarchitecture bear the code name “Alchemist” instead of the familiar name “DG2”, which is the internal code name, and will not be available for desktop PCs until the first quarter of 2022 at the earliest Notebooks on the market. Nothing will come of the once targeted second half of this year, the hope of a third force in the competitive market with high prices is now being smashed by Intel itself.
In order to exude at least a little more optimism, the manufacturer mentions the next variants: The following generations will have the code names “Battlemage”, “Celestial” and “Druid” and will also appear under the new Arc branding – the appropriate year numbers say Of course not Intel today.
No technical details
Further technical details are missing today, here the manufacturer refers to future events for which more time is now available than previously thought. Most recently, ComputerBase had already conveyed that the solutions tiptoe towards the start rather than make big leaps.
Here & # 39; sa sneak peek of pre- production Intel Arc graphics in action. https://t.co/VOMsMN6r2y #IntelArc pic.twitter.com/b9fOsXdRCq
& mdash; Intel Graphics (@IntelGraphics) August 16, 2021
Several desktop graphics cards are expected in addition to variants for notebooks, the 512 EU variant with its 4,096 shaders and 8 to 16 GB GDDR6 is listed. Smaller variants with 384 EUs, 256 EUs, 192 EUs, 128 EUs and 64 EUs should also be available. Support for current technical achievements such as ray tracing naturally included.
In case you were curious, Intel Arc GPUs will come with full DX12U support, including mesh shading, and high-performance ray tracing. Bonus, high-quality neural supersampling deserves a separate announcement. https://t.co/HIBJ8tWhwr
& mdash; Anton Kaplanyan (@Kaplanyan) August 16, 2021
The hope of the flagship rests on reaching at least the level of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 or better, everything else should can also be viewed as a failure due to the expectations created by Intel. With today's announcement, the project should not have become any easier: In 2022 something new should also be pending at Nvidia, so that the opponents could quickly be completely different.
