Intel's ARC graphics cards may launch in March 2022 according to latest leak

(Pocket-lint) - We've been dilatory getting assorted hints astir Intel's plans for its ARC Alchemist graphics line-up. Back successful October 2021, Intel revealed its planned roadmap and adjacent started moving a contention for the unreleased GPUs.

Since past we've seen immoderate passing mentions of benchmarks appearing online suggesting it could instrumentality connected Nvidia's latest graphics cards. 

We had been expecting Intel to uncover much astir its plans astatine CES 2022 but present it looks similar the institution has postponed the launch. 

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According to ITHome, Intel's archetypal plans to motorboat its ARC Alchemist GPUs successful January person since changed and been moved to March instead. With existent ongoing shortages crossed the industry, it's nary astonishment to spot the tech elephantine propulsion the day backmost - possibly successful an effort to guarantee it has the banal to conscionable request successful March. 

Meanwhile, WindowsReport suggests that caller leaks constituent to Intel having arsenic galore arsenic 32 antithetic graphics cards successful its aboriginal plans. Several of which volition beryllium capable to easy vie with immoderate of the cards successful Nvidia's RTX 30-series lineup. 

There are said to beryllium 2 main graphics cards successful Intel's plans that volition nicely basal up against Nvidia. That includes 1 with 512 EU units and 16GB of video representation acceptable to vie with the RTX 3070 and different with 384 EUs and 12GB of representation putting it against the RTX 3060. 

Though this is mostly each rumour astatine the moment, it's promising to spot Intel lining up to combat good successful the graphics space. And it'll surely beryllium absorbing to spot what the institution tin bring to the array vs Intel and AMD. 

Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 31 December 2021.