After Alchemist celebrated its premiere with the two dedicated entry-level graphics cards Intel Arc A350M and A370M based on the smaller GPU ACM-G11 (DG2-128), a notebook with the Intel Arc A730M offered. The “big” ACM-G10 (DG2-512) comes into play for the first time.
On the Chinese online trading platform JD.com, the 16-inch “Machenike Discovery Edition 2022” offers for the first time a notebook with a dedicated GPU from the Intel Arc 7 series, which according to its creators is sorted above Arc 3 and Arc 5 in the “High Performance Gaming” category.
Gaming bolide with Intel Arc A730M
Themachenike Discovery Edition 2022 offered is compatible with the following Specifications and the eye-catching design are unmistakably aimed primarily at gamers.
- Intel Core i7-12700H with up to 4.7 GHz
- 16 – 64 gigabytes DDR5-4800 Dual Channel
- Intel Arc A730M with 3,072 ALUs and 12 GB GDDR6
- 16″ WQHD panel with 165 Hz, 500 cd/m² and 100% sRGB
- Intel Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax) and Bluetooth 5.2
- SSDs with 512 GB to 4 TB PCIe 4.0 x4
- Intel Thunderbolt 4 @ 40Gbps
- Battery @ 80Wh


machenike Discovery Edition 2022 (Image: JD.com)
The outside “Machenike Discovery Edition 2022”, which is a little reminiscent of Dell's notebooks from the Alienware gaming division, is powered by the hybrid 14-core Intel Core i7-12700H processor (test) and should cost 1,274 US dollars. Pre-orderers participating in a promotion on June 6th can then place their pre-orders for $1,112.


< p class="p text-width">The main protagonist for the gaming ambitions of the 358.8 × 265.4 × 26.6 mm (W×D×H) and 2.45 kg notebook, the Intel Arc A730M, comes with a 12 GB GDDR6 graphics memory reported as 14 Gbps.
Chinese specifications may vary
An image gallery of the online trading platform JD.com, which uses a format that is rather rare in the western world, once again focuses on all the highlights of the gaming notebook individually.
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machenike Discovery Edition 2022 (Image: JD.com)
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Even if the Intel Arc A730M is expected to celebrate its premiere in China, the specifications do not have to be transferred 1:1 to local notebooks. For example, a GDDR6 graphics memory with 16 Gbps was assumed until recently. So far, Intel has only made the memory volume and width of the memory interface public, but not the clock.