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
The industry would probably be better off w/o DX12 and Microsoft contributing towards the development of a open API like Vulkan instead, but we can't have that right!!? Microsoft needs something to hold over consumers to adopt newer OS's otherwise they'd be fine with Linux.
Intel's board will cut the cruft after 2-3 years, and fir the third time Intel will pretend it never had discrete graphics
Why would something new and shiny on arc somehow speed-up memory-limited compute?>?
Maybe instead of trying (and failing) to compete with the duopoly in gaming videocards Intel should've tried to compete in the cryptomining arena -- it's not very ecofriendly, but it could be profitable?
If they are at TSMC they are wasting resources/production space that could be used for decent gpus, so instead of lowering prices and helping the market with an alternative they can put the graphics cards problem in a bigger hole that they are now.