After months of rumours, Intel has finally unveiled the new series of discrete graphic processors based on its new Xe HPG architecture. Officially called the Arc A-series, Intel during a livestream event yesterday announced the first batch of the Arc A-series GPU dedicated for laptops, which is the Intel Arc 3 series.
The Arc 3 GPUs are now available in models such as the Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro and in laptops from other OEMs, including ASUS, Lenovo, Acer, HP, and more. Furthermore, the tech giant also revealed that desktop and workstation versions of the Arc A-series, the Arc 5 and Arc 7 will be arriving later this year.
Out of the three, the Arc 3 is the entry-level series and is based on the smaller ACM-G11 die. Meanwhile, the Arc 5 and Arc 7 are based on the larger ACM-G10 die.
Intel unveiled two models of the Arc 3 series, the A350M and the A370M. Both features 64-bit wide memory bus and 4GB GDDR6 memory.
As for the A370M, it has 8 Xe-cores, 8 ray tracing units, and 1550MHz graphics clock and 35-50W power envelope. Meanwhile, the A350M features 6 Xe-cores, 6 ray tracing cores, and 1150MHz graphics clock and a 25W to 35W power envelope.
Moreover, the GPU includes XMX AI engine which enables machine learning and AI-acceleration. This powers features such as XeSS, the version of DLSS by Intel.
The Arc A-series GPU also features a new media engine that is the first in the industry to support hardware accelerated AV1 encdoing. With this, users can create content in an efficient codec that are fast becoming the industry standard.
As for gaming, Intel said that the Arc 3 series are perfect for 1080p60fps gaming. The company claimed that the Arc 370M with the Core i7-12700H achieves over 90fps for esports titles and over 60fps in several AAA titles at medium setting.
Besides that, Intel also unveiled a feature called Deep Link, which shares resources between the Arc GPU and the Intel CPU to improve performances. These enables features such as Dynamic Power Share which automatically adjusts power allocation between CPU and GPU, Hyper Compute which accelerates tasks by 24% and Hyper Encode to speed up encoding by up to 60%.
At the tail end of the livestream, Intel also teased a very brief look at its upcoming desktop graphics card. However, no further details were provided regarding the desktop GPU.
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