Announced Intel Arc A350M, A370M discrete gaming GPUs for thin and light laptops, desktop GPUs to be released later this year
After years of advertising and building, Intel has finally launched its first discrete Intel Arc GPU. Two A-series models, Arc A350M and Arc A370M will be available in thin and light notebooks soon, with pre-orders for models from many leading manufacturers including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung starting as early as today. More powerful Arc 5 and Arc 7 GPU models for higher-end gaming laptops will follow these Arc 3 GPUs later this year. Details on the upcoming desktop GPU will also be announced later in 2022.
All laptops with Intel Arc GPU announced the feature so far 12 by Intelorder Mobile CPU generation ‘Alder Lake’and many of them are thin and light model qualified for Intel Evo Badge. Intel has announced that OEMs will be able to leverage its ‘Deep Link’ technology to dynamically balance CPUs and GPUs in a laptop’s thermal and power enclosures to optimize performance for mass types. different jobs. Arc GPUs and ‘Alder Lake’ CPUs with integrated graphics can also work together to accelerate video encoding and certain AI workloads, thanks to the company’s shared Xe architecture. they.
DirectX 12, variable-scale shading, and ray tracing are supported across the product family, although Intel’s XeSS image upscaling technology will not be available with this first chip set. The company also advertises support for hardware AV1 video encoding and the latest HDMI and DisplayPort standards today.
Intel’s new Arc Control software will act as a hub for players with community features, streaming and camera controls, performance profiles, and in-game events and rewards. The company has also committed to monthly driver updates and a close partnership with game developers, including same-day patches for newly released titles.
Specifications of Intel Arc A-series GPU models
The company promises performance above 60 fps at 1080p in many popular games with the Arc A370M. Creator workloads will also see some benefits.
The two new GPUs announced so far are either based on HPG or the High Performance Gaming tier of Intel Xe Architecture Ridge. Intel previously announced that their first generation of discrete consumer GPUs would be codenamed Alchemist, with Battlemage, Celestial, and Druid already planned for the coming years. After recruit Former AMD graphics director Raja Koduri in 2017 to lead the development, Intel was initially 2020 goal announcement for its foray into the premium discrete gaming GPU segment. The Xe architecture scales from integrated GPUs for mobile devices to data center supercomputing clusters.
While the Arc A350M and A370M feature six and eight Xe cores respectively, the upcoming Arc A550M, A730M and A770M have also been announced with 16, 24 and 32 Xe cores respectively. Each Xe core has 16 vector engines for graphical shaders, 16 matrix engines for AI workloads, 192kb cache. All GPU models have the same number of ray tracing cores. has GDDR6 graphics memory.
Arc A350M has a power rating of 25-35W while A370M has a power rating of 35-50W. That goes up to 120-150W with the highest end Arc 7 GPU.
Intel also announced that 14 games are confirmed to support XeSS later this year. These include Shadow of the Tomb Raider, GRID Legends, Death Stranding, Hitman III, and Anvil.
