INTEL’S ARC ALCHEMIST
Third player joins the GPU market
IT FEELS AS THOUGH we have been waiting an age to see Intel’s discrete GPUs. Development started several years ago, and we’ve been teased by it ever since.
Expectations are certainly high: Nvidia and AMD have carved up the graphics card market between them for decades. Intel has decided to release the mobile versions of Arc first, the A-Series Mobile, which offers a huge jump from the lackluster OEM discrete cards we’ve seen previously. At its heart, each Intel GPU uses Xe cores (replacing the old Execution Unit). These have 16 256-bit vector engines and 16 1024-bit matrix engines.