Intel Arc "Alchemist" Desktop Graphics Cards Launch Pushed to Late-June/July

[btarunr]

Supply issues seem to continue to affect Intel's ambitious desktop GPU launch plans, with the Arc "Alchemist" line of desktop discrete GPUs now launching at "late Q2 or early Q3," sources tell VideoCardz. This would put the launch toward the end of June, or some time in July. This follows a similar trend with availability of notebooks powered by Arc "Alchemist" discrete GPUs, which are expected to be available in June, despite a March product launch.

A mid-year launch risks putting Intel's nascent dGPU lineup perilously close to AMD's RX 6x50 refresh, and NVIDIA's RTX 40-series "Ada Lovelace" graphics cards, expected to debut across the second half of 2022. At launch, Intel's desktop graphics card lineup will include as many as five SKUs, including the Arc A380, the Arc A580, the Arc A770, and the flagship Arc A780, which is probably a Limited Edition SKU. With the rumored performance numbers we're seeing, These SKUs have the potential to impress gamers, provided they aren't obsolete at launch by next-generation models from NVIDIA and AMD.



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[eidairaman1]

These will do nothing to lower prices...

 

[80251]

Sad, Intel's Arc won't be making much of splash if it launches head to head with the duopoly's latest and greatest. Like someone else here said, hopefully Intel will compete in the mid-range, because competing at the bottom doesn't sound like much of a business game plan.

 

[eidairaman1]

Sad, Intel's Arc won't be making much of splash if it launches head to head with the duopoly's latest and greatest. Like someone else here said, hopefully Intel will compete in the mid-range, because competing at the bottom doesn't sound like much of a business game plan.

They would need to pull a R300 just to make any difference.

 

[HD64G]

They will be too late to make any big difference to the market and only IF drivers are close to perfection. If not...

 

[john_]

2.5 years ago Raja was hinting something about June. He might actually predict the correct month after all. He only missed the year. 2022 instead of 2020. Close enough....

 

[R-T-B]

2.5 years ago Raja was hinting something about June. He might actually predict the correct month after all. He only missed the year. 2022 instead of 2020. Close enough....

Shit like that worked for Nostradamus, so why not? Fairs fair now.

 

[stimpy88]

Lets see if Raja - The Peter Molyneaux of graphics cards - can actually be true to his word for once.

 

[HwGeek]

Plot twist: they are delaying the GPU launch so they can use the available woofers for the mining chips... change my mind ;-)

 

[Turmania]

The koduri effect, all the hype but never ever delivered, anywhere in any company....

 

[gasolina]

The arc 770 will meat performance of 3060 and the price will be 650$ . as i said many times raja is a comedian not a gpu maker tbh he's a marketing person more lul

 

[chstamos]

Bitboys Oy Vey

 

[usiname]

Oh no, even the paper launch of the desktop Arcs is delayed

 

[AusWolf]

It doesn't matter how obsolete they are at launch if their price is right. It's only that Intel won't be able to sell them for a price they'd potentially want to sell them for.

 

[trsttte]

Sad, Intel's Arc won't be making much of splash if it launches head to head with the duopoly's latest and greatest. Like someone else here said, hopefully Intel will compete in the mid-range, because competing at the bottom doesn't sound like much of a business game plan.

I mean, it's a bad plan marketing wise, but the big money is in the lower end volume side of the business, not on the big halo stuff. But yeah, they'll have a hard time setting their price, might end up as very limited availability on the desktop and dump most of the stock on laptops where they have much greater pricing power (because they can bundle them together with CPUs)

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Just waiting for the next mining bubble looks like

 

[Chrispy_]

Oh look,

Intel dGPU and "delays"

I'm so shocked, this is my shocked face:

:|

 

[mechtech]

What's wrong, TSMC doesn't have the capacity??

 

[HisDivineOrder]

He should delay till September and face Ada head-on.

 

[80251]

It doesn't matter how obsolete they are at launch if their price is right. It's only that Intel won't be able to sell them for a price they'd potentially want to sell them for.

That didn't work out too well for Matrox and their Parhelia. At one point (early 2000's?) Matrox was a player in gaming GPU's.

Who wants to bet the next official Intel announcement this summer won't be a release of the actual hardware but another release delay?

 

[ShurikN]

Arc Alchemist and Delay. Name a more iconic duo.

 

[Dr. Dro]

That didn't work out too well for Matrox and their Parhelia. At one point (early 2000's?) Matrox was a player in gaming GPU's.

Who wants to bet the next official Intel announcement this summer won't be a release of the actual hardware but another release delay?

I am not sure the Parhelia is an appropriate allegory here. The hardware and software landscape is very different nowadays. Only now that the DX10 level hardware with drivers from 2014-2016 have begun having rather unserviceable issues running simple games. AMD has abandoned relatively current hardware (including their first generation DirectX 12 hardware) and they still run mostly everything fine. Most D3D11 games will run on Fermi and its 2018 drivers.

The Parhelia was costly and had severe, unfixable hardware level bugs, but its worst crime was not being DirectX 9 compliant. Matrox also lacked the software expertise and the vast R&D budget of Intel. If Intel can release a working, even if relatively mediocre GPU, but have high availability and good prices, Arc will be a successful product.

Provided the high-end Arc graphics performs like TU104/RTX 2080 level? For $300 I will be more than satisfied.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Oh look,

Intel dGPU and "delays"

I'm so shocked, this is my shocked face:

:|

you mean like that?

---

As in other news posts anouncing delays, just how often are they happening? once a week? I think someone speculated these delays are actually a marketing gimmick since there is no real explanation why its being delayed.

If Intel can release a working, even if relatively mediocre GPU, but have high availability and good prices, Arc will be a successful product.

Driver will make or break that success, mediocre will become their goal and probably still be flat.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Driver will make or break that success, mediocre will become their goal and probably still be flat.

If the drivers are stable (and this is where their iGPU drivers excel - they are stable), even if not really very performant at first it will be enough.

I think it is reasonable to warn those who will buy into Arc first gen that they should be very mindful that they likely will not have NVIDIA grade drivers, but imo it will improve significantly over time. For a geek like me, that just screams fun

 

[80251]

But Dr. Dro fun doesn't necessarily translate into sales -- otherwise the hula hoop would still be a thing.