Last summer, when there were reliable rumors about Intel’s desire to enter the discrete video card market, the audience of gamers greeted the news rather coolly. And although the “blue team” is already releasing its video cards in China with varying success, which are comparable in performance to the entry-level models from NVIDIA, the company does not plan to stop there – today, August 8, Intel introduced three new video cards at once, which were created for professionals who want to edit video, work with images and more. That is, now Intel has set its sights not only on gamers.
Currently, the Arc Pro series of graphics cards consists of three models – Arc Pro A40 and A50 are designed to work in workstations, and A30M is designed to be installed in professional laptops. It is important to note that all three graphics cards support hardware ray tracing and AV1 hardware acceleration. Moreover, new maps were created with an eye to work in professional editing applications like Adobe Premiere Pro, so it is likely that new products will have certain advantages in this direction. At the same time, the performance of the new cards is not so incredible.
For example, the Intel Arc Pro A40, which comes in a fairly compact design (occupies only one slot), demonstrates a performance of 3.5 teraflops. Yes, there are eight cores for ray tracing, 6 GB of GDDR6 video memory, but for a professional graphics card, the performance is, to put it mildly, low. The Intel Arc Pro A50 has a noticeably thicker case, the video card already occupies two slots, while boasting a performance of 4.8 TFlops. Here, however, the same eight cores for ray tracing, 6 GB of the same GDDR6 memory, but better cooling and, apparently, a more powerful chip. For example, the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 has 72 ray tracing cores and 130 teraflops of performance.
Intel noted that these graphics cards support two monitors with a resolution of 8K at 60 Hz, one monitor with a resolution of 5K at 240 Hz (or two at 120 Hz), or as many as four monitors in 4K 60 Hz mode. And although it is technically possible to play games on these video cards, they are not at all designed for this task. Intel said the new products have been certified to work with software in the field of design, construction, architecture and manufacturing, as well as to work with Blender, HandBrake, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve Studio and more. It is a pity that no one has named prices yet.
Source: Trash Box
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