CES 2022: Intel Starts Shipping the First-Gen Arc Alchemist GPUs to OEMs
Jan. 5, 2022Coming to specs and features of the Intel Arc GPUs, the processors are designed to deliver high-end performance for gaming and graphic-intensive creative tasks. They will come with support forhardware-based ray-tracing, variable-rate shading, mesh shading, and also support for DirectX 12 Ultimate.
Furthermore, Intel states that its GPUs will be able to upscale low-res graphics to high resolutions without putting much pressure on the graphics processing unit, thanks to XeSS, the company’s AI-based supersampling technology. Plus, the company has alreadyconfirmedthat itwill not limit the crypto mining capabilities of the upcoming GPUs.
As for the price and commercial availability of the Alchemist GPUs, there is no information from the company as of now. However, during the presentation, Intel confirmed that the Intel Evo-branded laptops packing its new 12th-Gen Intel Core H-series processors will require discrete Arc GPUs. Hence, the company will likely release mobile versions of the new Arc GPUs in the market soon.
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