Saturday, June 4th 2022
Intel Shows Off its Arc Graphics Card at Intel Extreme Masters
Currently the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) event is taking place in Dallas and at the event, Intel had one of its Arc Limited Edition graphics cards on display. It's unclear if it was a working sample or just a mockup, as it wasn't running in a system or even mounted inside a system. Instead, it seems like Intel thought it was a great idea to mount the card standing up on the port side inside an acrylic box, on top of a rotating base. The three pictures snapped by @theBryceIsRt and posted on Twitter doesn't reveal anything we haven't seen so far, except the placement of the power connectors.
It's now clear that Intel has gone for a typical placement of the power connectors and the card in question has one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector. Intel will in other words not be using the new 12-pin power connector that is expected to be used by most next generation graphics cards. We should mention that @theBryceIsRt is an Intel employee and is the Intel Arc community advocate according to his twitter profile, so the card wasn't just spotted by some passerby. Intel has as yet not revealed any details as to when it's planning on launching its Arc based graphics cards.
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@theBryceIsRt
It's now clear that Intel has gone for a typical placement of the power connectors and the card in question has one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector. Intel will in other words not be using the new 12-pin power connector that is expected to be used by most next generation graphics cards. We should mention that @theBryceIsRt is an Intel employee and is the Intel Arc community advocate according to his twitter profile, so the card wasn't just spotted by some passerby. Intel has as yet not revealed any details as to when it's planning on launching its Arc based graphics cards.
108 Comments on Intel Shows Off its Arc Graphics Card at Intel Extreme Masters
8+6pin for a 3060Ti equivalent :ohwell:
well, i'll wait the reviews before any definitive opinions (preferably TPU reviews :lovetpu: what? too bootlicker? ok... :oops: )
Intel has excellent hardware, proper innovation in and out of their architectural history yet lack software harmony. This is where they are making sure their ARC series makes a breakthrough and delaying the release almost from last 4+ months.
Common example of what im saying is the power consumption vs performance graphs. Intel graphics eat watts but produce less numbers compared to Nvidia or Amd cards on same power draw charts.
Intel has produced working gpus by now even showcased the limited edition but going through the phase of software to hardware harmony. They are exceptionally working on software/drivers to harvest the power of their power drawing hardware.
I believe blue team will definitely make a difference in the market. Especially those useless hardware issue Nvidia and Amd cards have leaving users to through away and buy new. Atleast Intel hardware would be more superior in general point of view.
My TL;DR: if the Arc can deliver 3060 (Ti) level performance with low-noise cooler options at a good price, it'll be a winner (at least in my world).
also given the 8+6pin ... it's already kind of grim for the consumption (or they did go overkill for the sake of pricing it higher)
my "fear" since it's their top dog ... they will be pricing it too high, because if they price it adequately, their mid and low end will have an abysmal pricing, starting from the second after the A770
Too much time has passed, surely they can maybe perform close to the current gen GPUs, but the next gen will problably wipe the floor with them.
Just hope they help lowering the prices of gpus, to me that will be a victory.
Intel makes tens of billions USD of profit in their CPU line. Whatever profit they stand to make in their future discrete GPU will be very small in comparison.
Been playing at 4K for several years already and in some games I wouldn't want to go back.
Thats fine for a first gen product though. Look at RDNA1. It took another gen to make the actual competitive stack ouf of it. Similarly: Turing vs Ampere. And for both you could argue theyre also not quite perfect just yet, either missing a featureset or just gobbling up lots of power to do that. But even against that, Arc is never going to be competitive.
pointless/ overpriced.I'm still fine with 1080p and I feel no need to upgrade. An expensive 4K monitor would necessitate a costly GPU upgrade. No thanks.