Intel's new flagship GPUs, the all-new Arc GPUs, will be rolling out sooner than later. And it will now be at the forefront of Intel's collection of graphics processing units.
Intel Arc is the name given to the forthcoming consumer graphics processing units. In addition to covering many hardware generations, Intel's new Arc brand will encompass both the hardware and software that power the company's high-end discrete GPUs.
Intel GPU: Arc Leaks
Intel recently released a video demonstrating the features of their Arc Control Software. The footage can be seen below. However, it was particularly noteworthy because the specifications of an unknown discrete desktop GPU were briefly displayed during the presentation for a fraction of a second.
The information was first observed via the keen eyes of 3DCenter. It looks like the program is monitoring data from an as-of-yet-unreleased GPU for a brief period of time near the 29-second mark in the video seen above.
Due to the high clock speeds and power consumption, it is safe to assume that the information originates from a high-end discrete GPU rather than an integrated graphics processor (IGP). With a GPU speed of 2250MHz and a GPU power of 175W, the screenshot demonstrates that the GPU utilization is greater than 99%.
An additional Intel GPU leak, as reported by PC Gamer, is the VRAM clock value of 1093MHz. With a 256-bit bus width, this clock would equal 17.5Gbps, which would deliver 560GB/second at a rate of 17.5Gbps.
However, it is important to note that these leaks are based on a single split second of monitoring information that was released by Intel itself.
It is possible that the software simply had a problem and that they are putting too much stock in it. Although by now, it is definitely certain that the debut of Intel's desktop Arc graphics cards is getting closer and closer. In addition, AV1 encoding and decoding will be supported in the all-new Intel GPUs.
Release of the Intel Arc GPU
Intel GPUs have been a hot topic for quite some time now. After numerous speculations and leaks that surfaced online, it is now in the process of fully rolling out in the market. It is reported that the Arc GPUs will be capable of delivering mesh shading, variable-rate shading, video upscaling, and real-time ray tracing.
Another piece of information that was given about the Arc GPUs is its AI-accelerated supersampling. The new integrated feature in the GPUs would make NVIDIA its counterpart competitor as NVIDIA also has its own Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology.
Last month, March 30, the company released the Intel GPU A-Series for mobile graphics. Intel welcomed its new technology by launching them within laptop devices.
As reported by The Verge, "the company is only launching its least powerful Arc 3 series GPUs: the A350M, which has six Xe-cores and six ray-tracing units, and the A370M with eight Xe-cores and eight ray-tracing units."
The Intel Arc GPUs will be released first with the Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro. Intel promises that the Arc GPUs will soon be implemented in numerous brands like Lenovo, MSI, Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and more.
