Wednesday, September 28th 2022
Intel Outs Entry-level Arc A310 Desktop Graphics Card with 96 EUs
Intel expanded its Arc "Alchemist" desktop graphics card series with the entry-level Arc A310. This GPU has specs that enable Intel's AIB partners to build low-profile graphics cards that are possibly even single-slot, or conventional sized with fanless cooling. The A310 is being pushed as a slight upgrade over the iGPU, and an alternative to cards such as the AMD Radeon RX 6400. Its target user would want to build a 4K or 8K HTPC, or even be a workstation/HEDT user with a processor that lacks integrated graphics, and wants to use a couple of high-resolution monitors. There is no reference board design, but we expect it to look similar to the Arc Pro A40 in dimensions (pictured below), except with full-size DP and HDMI in place of those mDP connectors, and a full-height bracket out of the box.
The A310 is carved out of the 6 nm "ACM-G11" silicon by enabling 6 out of 8 Xe Cores (that's 96 out of 128 EUs, or 768 out of 1,024 unified shaders). You also get 96 XMX units that accelerate AI; and 6 ray tracing units. The GPU runs at 2.00 GHz, compared to 2.10 GHz on the A380. The memory sub-system has been narrowed by a third—you get 4 GB of 15.5 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 64-bit wide memory interface. In comparison, the A380 has 6 GB of memory across a 96-bit memory bus. The card features a PCI-Express 4.0 x8 host interface, and with its typical power expected to be well under the 75 W-mark, most custom cards could lack any power connectors.
The A310 is carved out of the 6 nm "ACM-G11" silicon by enabling 6 out of 8 Xe Cores (that's 96 out of 128 EUs, or 768 out of 1,024 unified shaders). You also get 96 XMX units that accelerate AI; and 6 ray tracing units. The GPU runs at 2.00 GHz, compared to 2.10 GHz on the A380. The memory sub-system has been narrowed by a third—you get 4 GB of 15.5 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 64-bit wide memory interface. In comparison, the A380 has 6 GB of memory across a 96-bit memory bus. The card features a PCI-Express 4.0 x8 host interface, and with its typical power expected to be well under the 75 W-mark, most custom cards could lack any power connectors.
35 Comments on Intel Outs Entry-level Arc A310 Desktop Graphics Card with 96 EUs
I expect it to match gt 1030 gddr5 speed :rolleyes:
Jokes aside, 4Gb ddr6 costs more than $40, so your expectation cannot be met. :P
n iGPUdGPU to pair up with your KF CPU, is that the thing?My guess is that they are trying to replace their legacy iGPU cores with this new graphics technology similar to AMD's ongoing transition from Vega to RDNA2 onboard graphics cores.
Having an entry-level discrete card is a useful option for graphics-less CPUs. This appears to be Intel's version of something like the Radeon RX 550 2G.
While they might not be a strong contender for gaming, these low end discrete graphics cards have a place in many commercial situations, like driving multiple monitors for mostly 2D graphics using dedicated VRAM rather than sharing a pool of main memory.
With more usage cases and workloads for RT and ML cores with each passing week, it would seem that Intel will include those two technologies in their iGPU roadmap. Same with the hardware media encoder.
RT cores are below them in the block diagram I can't link for some reason.
XVE are shader cores, XMX are the Matrix engines, its very Vega esq from a compute standpoint almost as if Raja left AMD for Intel.
Appears to have the same die as the A350m, just twice the clocks.
Amsterdam still has best graphics tho
Look at those reflections, ultra real
I think intel could focus heavily on the multimedia abilities to sell these budget cards, and wouldnt be surprised to see them flat out replace a lot of the low end cards OEMs stuff into their volume products that just need extra display outputs or basic acceleration. The Quadro P620 is still a card popping up in 1L workstations like the lenovo p340 and I'm sure intel can manage to out feature a 2018 pascal part... There is a market for low profile/half height cards out there.
This + a 13100F should be faster than a 6core Desktop Rembrandt in gaming (unless AMD changes the CU number from 6 that mobile Ryzen 5 has to 8 in desktop form)