It was also a bit better than half the performance of 2016's GTX 1050 2GB, despite having twice as much memory. Overall, Xe DG1 performed about the same as Nvidia's GT 1030 GDDR5, a weak-sauce GPU hailing from May 2017. While the first Xe GPUs arrived in 2020, in the form of Tiger Lake mobile processors, and Xe DG1 showed up by the middle of 2021, neither one can hope to compete with even GPUs from several generations back. AMD's Big Navi / RDNA 2 architecture has competed with Nvidia's Ampere architecture since late 2020. The difficulty Intel faces in cracking the dedicated GPU market can't be underestimated. Frankly, there's nowhere to go from here but up. Intel has been gearing up its driver team for the launch, fixing compatibility and performance issues on existing graphics solutions, hopefully getting ready for the US and 'rest of the world' launch. Plenty of questions remain, but with the official China-first launch of Intel Arc Alchemist laptops and the desktop Intel Arc A380 now behind us, plus plenty of additional details of the Alchemist GPU architecture, we now have a reasonable idea of what to expect. With Intel targeting better than RTX 3060 levels of performance, at a potentially lower price and with more VRAM, things are shaping up nicely for Team Blue.Ĭould Intel, purveyor of low performance integrated GPUs-'the most popular GPUs in the world'-possibly hope to compete? Yes, it can.

That's a lot lower on pricing than what was initially rumored, but then the A770 is also coming out far later than originally intended.

The latest announcement from Intel is that the Arc A770 is coming October 12, starting at $329. The competition among the best graphics cards is fierce, and Intel's current integrated graphics solutions basically don't even rank on our GPU benchmarks hierarchy (UHD Graphics 630 sits at 1.8% of the RTX 3090 based on just 1080p medium performance). This is the first 'real' dedicated Intel GPU since the i740 back in 1998 - or technically, a proper discrete GPU after the Intel Xe DG1 paved the way last. Intel has been hyping up Xe Graphics for about two years, but the Intel Arc Alchemist GPU will finally bring some needed performance and competition from Team Blue to the discrete GPU space.

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