Intel revealed that it plans to take on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 with its upcoming release. Arc Alchemist Screen cards. However, she knows that in terms of performance, the best you can hope for is exchanging blows in some games.
To combat Nvidia and AMD, Intel is a different approach, and seems to be fully committed to the discrete graphics card line. Will that be enough to keep the GPUs afloat?
Arc Alchemist trades hits with Nvidia, but not always
Arc experts at Intel Ryan Shrout and Tom Petersen have been promoting graphics cards for a while now. There have been many videos talking about GPUs, even Shrout and Petersen Meet Linus Tech Tips To talk about cards. This time, the duo spoke to Jacob Ridley from computer games It shared Intel’s intentions for the flagship Arc A770 as well as its close second, the Arc A750.
The Arc A770 and Arc A750 will both use the same A-G10 GPU die, but the A770 will come with a full set of 32 Xe cores, while the A750 is receiving a 28-core shortened version. However, it should be close in performance to its slightly more powerful sibling, and Intel continues to strive to beat - or matching - Nvidia’s RTX 3060 with these two GPUs.
To this end, Tom Petersen comments that in games that are optimized to run on Intel Arc, performance will be “much higher than [RTX] 3060.” This was said in relation to the Arc A750, which means that the A770 will offer better performance.
Of course, this only applies to DirectX 12 titles. Petersen and Shrout explained that the graphics card does a good job with DX12 and Vulkan, but When it comes to legacy APIs like DX11 and DX9, you can run into difficulties. Petersen admits it again by saying, “When you add DX11, you’ll see that we’re underperforming in some cases, we’re a bit behind in some cases, we’re ahead in some cases, but we’re ahead with more losses than gains in DX11.”
DirectX 9 support has been taken care of by Outsource everything to Microsoft. When it comes to DX11, Intel plans to continue improving addresses and slowly get rid of the problem, but it doesn’t hide that it initially hoped to target a higher performance segment than it would really be able to achieve.
“I was hoping we’d come up with a little higher performance, but the truth is that’s where we are today,” Petersen told PC Gamer. “The good news for consumers is that we will make sure that this product is highly competitive.”
When Petersen says it’s competitive, he’s not necessarily referring to performance, although we might already see something that can trade punches with the RTX 3060 — instead, he’s referring to performance per dollar. In other words, Intel plans to beat Nvidia not in purely numbers, but in terms of how much its cards will cost in comparison.
We’ve already heard this before, but it’s always good to repeat it. However, Intel has not yet revealed what the GPU will cost or when it will be available. However, it has emphasized its commitment to technology that goes beyond the current Intel Arc Alchemist version.
Intel plans into the distant future
it was there Rumors about Intel may choose to surrender on discrete GPUs and shifting the focus away from graphics cards, but Petersen assured PC Gamer that wouldn’t be the case.
“I just want to be clear: We’re not going anywhere,” Petersen said. “Graphics is an important technology for the customer, an important technology for the data center, and we want to start competing in the key area where our competitors are making a lot of money. So all three of these things are very important to Intel.”
Once the Intel Arc Alchemist comes and goes, the company has already planned a full set of successors, and Intel now reveals that the majority of its engineers are already working on Battlemage - the immediate follow-up to Arc Alchemist, slated for 2023 - a 2024 release. After Battlemage, there are also Celestial and Druid, in sometime in the distant future.
It’s hard not to appreciate Intel’s frank approach to the Arc Alchemist issue. It wouldn’t be easy for the giant to win the hearts of existing Nvidia and AMD customers - and it would really be better if it hits sooner rather than later, with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 and AMD RDNA 3 on the imminent horizon.
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