Intel is set to enter the gaming graphics market with a new consumer GPU brand, Intel Arc. It will cover both hardware and software for multi-generation Intel high-performance discrete graphics cards. The first graphics accelerator, formerly known as DG2, is expected to arrive codenamed Alchemist in the first quarter of 2022.
Alchemist GPUs will be available for both desktops and laptops, and it looks like Intel is looking to compete with both AMD and NVIDIA. Despite the fact that there is still no information about the performance of the first Alchemist GPUs, the company published a short video in which it showed a prototype of the “stone” that can handle PUBG, Psychonauts 2, Metro Exodus and many other games without problems.
Here’s a sneak peek of pre-production Intel Arc graphics in action. https://t.co/VOMsMN6r2y #IntelArc pic.twitter.com/b9fOsXdRCq
— Intel Graphics (@IntelGraphics) August 16, 2021
Intel Arc GPUs will support Mesh Shaders, Variable Rate Shading and Video Upscaling, as well as real-time ray tracing. What’s more, the company promises AI-powered anti-aliasing technology, which sounds like Intel has created a competitor to NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology. By the way, AMD released its counterpart called FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), but it only uses conventional spatial scaling technology, not real-time AI-based reconstruction.
The head of Intel’s GPU business unit noted that the launch of Intel Arc and the emergence of future generations of graphics cards underscore the company’s commitment to gamers and game developers. This announcement is nominal, it does not reveal any specific products, only the codenames for future generations of GPU Arc: Battlemage, Celestial and Druid. More details are expected later this year.
Intel currently has Iris Xe graphics cards for workstations, codenamed DG1, which use the Xe LP architecture. Upcoming GPUs will be based on the Xe-HPG microarchitecture.
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