Speaking with PCGamer, Intel disclosed that their Arc GPUs will be very competitively priced and even have superior ray tracing performance than the competition. The company has also disclosed its goals for the Arc GPUs that will follow Alchemist and its dedication to the roadmap.
Jacob Ridley, Senior Hardware Editor for PCGamer, travelled to Berlin to attend IFA 2022. He went down with Ryan Shrout and Tom Peterson, Intel’s marketing experts, who shared some juicy details about their Arc GPUs. There is a lot to discuss, but to summarise, we learn a little bit about Intel’s RTU (Ray Tracing Unit) and its performance, how much Intel Arc GPUs would cost, and where Arc is headed in the future.
Once more, it appears that Intel has AMD in its sights more so than NVIDIA
Speaking of their pricing strategy, Intel stated that the Arc GPUs will be priced quite reasonably compared to their competitors. In 50 game benchmarks, the business has already demonstrated the Arc A750 graphics card, which performs on average 5% quicker than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060.
Intel reiterates that DX12 and Vulkan performance will be unbeatable, while DX11 and older games will either play well or poorly. Additionally, Microsoft is adding historical DX9 functionality through the D3D9on12 wrapper API at Intel’s request.
Additionally, Intel is being really fair by stating that while Alchemist products won’t have the same power efficiency as NVIDIA’s GPUs, their costs will be significantly lower to reflect that. Arc Alchemist GPUs are Intel’s initial foray into the mass market and volume market. Arc Battlemage GPUs are Intel’s next step into the high-performance and enthusiast market.
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