Intel is determined to get back into the race for dedicated graphics cards, and it's not sparing any efforts.
In mid-August, a few days before the opening of Gamescom, Intel officially launched its new brand in as big a way as the health conditions would allow. ARC. Three letters to announce its return - which it hopes will be a smashing one - to the forefront of the dedicated graphics card scene, a field it has deserted for more than ten years and the resounding failure of an ambitious yet stillborn architecture, Larrabee, which was definitively cancelled in 2010 after months of procrastination.
Today, Intel is back. The ARC brand shows us that it is even here to stay with the announcement of several generations of graphics processors planned to stand up to the competition. So, after Alchemist in early 2022, we will have Battlemage, Celestial and Druid. Intel has already announced to all technology and video game enthusiasts a more detailed presentation of Alchemist's strengths before the end of 2021.
But rumors and other rumors don't wait. The latest leak comes from Guru3D and concerns a particularly explicit slide on which we can see Intel's ambitions for the first Alchemist GPUs, known as DG2. They should be declined in several versions that are distinguished by their TDP. Thus, the smallest of these two versions would have a TDP of 75 Watts. It would be then question for Intel to place it on the segments " mainstream - " and " mainstream + ", in other words an alternative to the solutions of entry of range.
Intel places it opposite the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER from NVIDIA and seems to be considering a price range between 100 and 199 dollars.
Logically, the second version of this DG2 is much more powerful, with a TDP of 175 / 225 Watts. This is obviously to compete with much more muscular models from AMD or NVIDIA, but we are not talking about titillating the most powerful. Intel is targeting the " performance + " and " enthusiast - " markets to place its card in front of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT. The pricing would be rather interesting as we are talking about prices between 300 and 499 dollars.
Of course, given the current situation, one of the main uncertainties is related to Intel's production capacity: will it be able to supply enough graphics cards?
