Monday, August 16th 2021
Intel Introduces New High-Performance Graphics Brand: Intel Arc
Intel today revealed the brand for its upcoming consumer high-performance graphics products: Intel Arc. The Arc brand will cover hardware, software and services, and will span multiple hardware generations, with the first generation, based on the Xe HPG microarchitecture, code-named Alchemist (formerly known as DG2). Intel also revealed the code names of future generations under the Arc brand: Battlemage, Celestial and Druid.
"Today marks a key moment in the graphics journey we started just a few years ago. The launch of the Intel Arc brand and the reveal of future hardware generations signifies Intel's deep and continued commitment to gamers and creators everywhere. We have teams doing incredible work to ensure we deliver first-class and frictionless experiences when these products are available early next year," said Roger Chandler, Intel vice president and general manager of Client Graphics Products and Solutions.
Intel Xe is a scalable graphics and compute architecture designed to deliver exceptional performance and functionality spanning integrated to discrete and data centers to supercomputers.
Upcoming Intel Arc graphics products are based on the Xe-HPG microarchitecture, a convergence of Intel's Xe-LP, HP and HPC microarchitectures, that will deliver scalability and compute efficiency with advanced graphics features. Alchemist, the first generation of Intel Arc products, will feature hardware-based raytracing and artificial intelligence-driven super sampling, and offer full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate.
Intel's long-term vision is to bring frictionless gaming and content creation experiences to gamers and creators worldwide, giving them innovation and choice in hardware coupled with open and accessible software tools.
Alchemist products will arrive in the first quarter of 2022. Please visit Intel.com/Arc for more details, with more specifics arriving later in 2021.
"Today marks a key moment in the graphics journey we started just a few years ago. The launch of the Intel Arc brand and the reveal of future hardware generations signifies Intel's deep and continued commitment to gamers and creators everywhere. We have teams doing incredible work to ensure we deliver first-class and frictionless experiences when these products are available early next year," said Roger Chandler, Intel vice president and general manager of Client Graphics Products and Solutions.
Upcoming Intel Arc graphics products are based on the Xe-HPG microarchitecture, a convergence of Intel's Xe-LP, HP and HPC microarchitectures, that will deliver scalability and compute efficiency with advanced graphics features. Alchemist, the first generation of Intel Arc products, will feature hardware-based raytracing and artificial intelligence-driven super sampling, and offer full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate.
Intel's long-term vision is to bring frictionless gaming and content creation experiences to gamers and creators worldwide, giving them innovation and choice in hardware coupled with open and accessible software tools.
Alchemist products will arrive in the first quarter of 2022. Please visit Intel.com/Arc for more details, with more specifics arriving later in 2021.
15 Comments on Intel Introduces New High-Performance Graphics Brand: Intel Arc
Anyways, I'm rooting for Intel to come up with something decent. A true DLSS equivalent would also be amazing, but I'm skeptical given the track record of Intel's driver/software teams.
Anyways, it won't matter what they call their GPU line-ups, if they can't meet or exceed the specs/features other 2 brands already on the market, at close to the same or lower prices, they might as well write off the costs of this experimental conglomerated cfk right friggin now & take the 1 time charge against their bottom line, then forget about it foreva.... :)
At first I was excited to try it out, but then got bummed out after I found out that I need to sacrifice my X570-based workstation for some inferior Intel crap.
That's why ASUS DG1 is in stock in pretty much every store in my area and nobody wants it, even scalpers.
Raja is the biggest loser.
Does this mean that Intel will start selling herbs and potions?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(processor)