Intel today revealed the brand for its upcoming consumer high-performance graphics products, Intel Arc. The Arc brand will cover hardware, software and services, and will span multiple hardware generations.
The first generation, based on the Xe HPG microarchitecture, will be code-named Alchemist (formerly known as DG2). Intel also revealed the code names of future generations under the Arc brand: Battlemage, Celestial and Druid.
As the press release reads, the first Alchemist products will arrive in the first quarter of 2022. Moreover, Alchemist will feature hardware-based ray tracing and artificial intelligence-driven super sampling, and offer full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate.
Roger Chandler, Intel vice president and general manager of Client Graphics Products and Solutions, said:
“Today marks a key moment in the graphics journey we started just a few years ago. The launch of the Intel Arc brand and the reveal of future hardware generations signifies Intel’s deep and continued commitment to gamers and creators everywhere. We have teams doing incredible work to ensure we deliver first-class and frictionless experiences when these products are available early next year.”
It will be interesting to see whether Intel’s supersampling solution will be closer to NVIDIA’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR.
Lastly, here is the Intel Arc graphics pre-production silicon in action.
👀 A sneak peek of gameplay captured on #IntelArc Pre-production Silicon! https://t.co/kRTpUg5EcG pic.twitter.com/CxORT8djLZ
— Intel Gaming (@IntelGaming) August 16, 2021
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Good to see some nice competition in GPU space.
I hope the cards will have LHR so miners can do what they do best, cope
I am very excited for this from a competition standpoint. I just can’t help but laugh at the fact that they are showing gameplay footage on a potato quality twitter short clip and we’re supposed to be impressed by that.
Pre-production and no actual measure of performance or an estimate for performance / price. I’m sticking to my guns on this one. Unfortunately expecting another delay, just because of Intel’s track record with GPU projects. Nobody wants them to succeed at this more than I do though. AMD and nvidia are too comfortable where they sit.
its intel, im expecting a gtx 1050 equivalent for 400$
Just give me a reason to dump Nvidia, Intel. I have zero brand loyalty.
More innovation and competition means more win for us!
I hope they go all out with RT and AI SS, Nvidia needs competition.
You can tell it’s some 20FPS from the footage. And since it’s Intel, it will probably cost $499.