Intel's ARC Alchemist Gaming Reference Graphics Cards Pictured In Latest Renders

The first renders of Intel's ARC Alchemist reference graphics cards have been pictured in the latest leak by Moore's Law is Dead. The renders show u.s. what Intel's ain reference blueprint will look like & a few tidbits regarding the launch of the desktop ARC lineup.

Intel's ARC Alchemist Gaming Reference Graphics Cards Pictured In Latest Renders

The Intel ARC Alchemist graphics carte du jour reference pattern for high-end variants has been pictured on several occasions before. Nosotros saw a prototype leak out by MLID back in Apr 2021 & Intel confirmed the design in its ARC marketing campaign in August. We also recently came to know how Intel plans to brand its upcoming gaming graphics card lineup, more on that here.

Moore's Law is Expressionless decided to inquire his friend to render an animation of the reference graphics carte du jour based on the information he knows from his sources. The resultant render is very detailed and sheds light on about every aspect of the reference graphics card, giving the states a detailed look at what might be Intel's first and very own dedicated design for its first desktop detached gaming bill of fare.

In the renders, we can come across the card is based on a high-end ARC Alchemist GPU, probably the DG2-512 (Xe-HPG) chip which will power the upper echelon of Alchemist graphics cards. The card comes in a dual-slot and dual-fan design. Each fan incorporates a 9-bract fan design and there also seems to be RGB embedded around the fans giving a dainty touch in bluish. The cooler shroud has a circular patterning around the edges which gives a unique touch to the bill of fare. There'southward also the 'Intel' logo on the side accent plate that is fabricated out of acrylic and as well embeds RGB LEDs. The card rocks a large aluminum finned heatsink and MLID points out the possibility of a vapor chamber-based cooling solution under the hood.

Intel ARC Alchemist Reference Gaming Graphics Bill of fare Renders (Image Credits: MLID):

Other than these, the card rocks a backplate that extends beyond the PCB. There are large vents on the backplate through which the second fan can vent air out. The card receives power through an viii+6 pin connector configuration while brandish outputs include a single HDMI and triple DP ports. In the renders, we tin but see the outsides of the bill of fare so we might accept to expect for a PCB return for later on. Merely despite that, Intel's reference and 1st Gen ARC Alchemist design looks great & credit to MLID and his friend for providing an early glimpse of the pattern, again!

Intel Xe-HPG 512 EU ARC Alchemist Graphics Carte

The top Alchemist 512 Eu variant has just one configuration listed and so far and that utilizes the full dice with 4096 cores, 256-fleck jitney interface, and upwardly to xvi GB GDDR6 memory featuring a 16 Gbps clock though 18 Gbps cannot be ruled out as per the rumor.

The Alchemist 512 EU chip is expected to measure at around 396mm2 which makes information technology bigger than the AMD RDNA 2 and NVIDIA Ampere offerings. The Alchemist -512 GPU will come in the BGA-2660 bundle which measures 37.5mm x 43mm. NVIDIA's Ampere GA104 measures 392mm2 which means that the flagship Alchemist chip is comparable in size while the Navi 22 GPU measures 336mm2 or around 60mm2 less. This isn't the final die size of the fleck but information technology should exist very shut.

NVIDIA packs in tensor cores and much bigger RT/FP32 cores in its fries while AMD RDNA 2 chips pack a single ray accelerator unit per CU and Infinity Cache. Intel volition as well take defended hardware onboard its Alchemist GPUs for Raytracing & AI-assisted super-sampling tech.

The Xe-HPG Alchemist 512 EU chip is suggested to feature clocks of around 2.2 - 2.5 GHz though we don't know if these are the average clocks or the maximum boost clocks. Let's assume that it's the max clock speed and in that instance, the card would deliver upward to 18.five TFLOPs FP32 compute which is  40% more than than the RX 6700 XT just ix% lower than the NVIDIA RTX 3070.

Expected operation and FLOPs of Intel's ARC Alchemist top GPU die compared to RTX 3070 & RX 6700 XT. (Image Source: MLID)

In a speculative measure of performance, MLID states that the TFLOPs make no sense for comparison equally performance scales differently respective to the architecture, not the FLOPs performance. The gaming graphics carte du jour is pretty much expected to exist faster than the RX 6700 XT & RTX 3070 at this point but with work ongoing on the commuter suite, the performance is expected to improve further.

Besides, it is stated that Intel'due south initial TDP target was 225-250W merely that's been upped to around 275W now. We tin can expect a 300W variant with dual 8-pin connectors likewise if Intel wants to push button its clocks even further. In either case, we tin can expect the final model to rock an 8+6 pivot connector config. There're also talks about a custom lineup being worked upon past Intel's AIB partners. The first Intel ARC products are launching in Q1 2022.

Intel ARC Alchemist vs NVIDIA GA104 & AMD Navi 22 GPUs

Graphics Menu Name	Intel ARC A780?	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti	AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
GPU Name	Alchemist DG-512	NVIDIA GA104	AMD Navi 22
Architecture	Xe-HPG	Ampere	RDNA 2
Process Node	TSMC 6nm	Samsung 8nm	TSMC 7nm
Die Size	~396mm2	392mm2	335mm2
FP32 Cores	32 Xe Cores	48 SM Units	40 Compute Units
FP32 Units	4096	6144	2560
Retention Bus	256-fleck	256-flake	192-bit
Memory Chapters	16 GB GDDR6	eight GB GDDR6X	12 GB GDDR6
Launch	Q1 2022	Q2 2021	Q1 2021

Source: https://wccftech.com/intel-arc-alchemist-reference-gaming-graphics-card-pictured-renders-dual-slot-dual-fan-design-sleek-silver-finish/

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