Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs are getting closer to launch

(Pocket-lint) - During Intel's CES 2022 presentation, the institution revealed a fig of things including its Alder Lake laptop CPUs, caller desktop CPUs and more. 

At the aforesaid time, the institution besides announced it is starting the shipment of its discrete Intel Arc graphics cards to OEMs. 

We've been hearing a lot astir Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs successful the past fewer months. Now the institution has revealed that things are starting to happen. First-generation Alchemist GPUs person been shipped to assorted companies including Acer, Asus, Dell, Samsung, MSI and more. 

Those companies successful crook person begun the process of including the Intel graphics exertion successful 2022 laptops. The Acer Swift X 16 is 1 specified example, which includes not lone Intel's 12th gen P halfway processor but besides Intel Arc Graphics that are said to marque it comparable to "somewhere successful the portion of Nvidia RTX 3080 and RTX 3070". 

Intel is readying to springiness Nvidia and AMD a combat too. With Intel Arc graphics the institution says it volition beryllium offering industry-leading features specified arsenic hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing, Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) AI-driven upscaling exertion and Intel Deep Link technology.  That heavy nexus technology, successful particular, is absorbing due to the fact that its to harness the afloat powerfulness of your strategy erstwhile paired with a compatible Intel CPU.  

Although this has been announced, there's nary authoritative connection connected erstwhile Intel Arc GPUs volition commencement shipping to consumers oregon erstwhile the OEM pre-built machines that incorporate them volition beryllium available. There are besides nary details connected the specs arsenic of yet. 

Intel did authorities that Arc GPUs volition beryllium included with Intel Evo-branded laptops truthful we should find much machines launching successful the coming months with the tech. 

Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 5 January 2022.