Thursday, December 16th 2021
Leaked Intel Graphics Drivers Uncover Arc Alchemist A380 and A350 GPU Naming
Intel's drivers for 11th generation NUC devices, labeled driver version 30.0.101.9999, have been leaked on the company website. They reveal quite a bit of information about the upcoming names of Intel's discrete graphics card efforts. As we know, the upcoming lineup of discrete GPUs from Intel is called Arc Alchemist designs, whose naming convention was unknown before this leak. Today, we know that the two low-mid range models will be Arc A3XX. According to the driver code we know that there are four GPUs present, codenamed Arc 380, Arc 350, Arc A370M and, Arc A350M.
Presumably, the "M" label designates the mobile variants for the laptop/notebook sector, while the rest will fit in the regular PCIe slot. According to some speculation, the Arc A380 model will be at NVIDIA GeForce GTS 1650 SUPER level, while the weaker Arc A350 will be around RTX 3050 or AMD Radeon RX 6400 level of performance. The Arc A350 will have 128 EUs enabled out of the whole 512 in the DG2 package. The complete DG2 chip with 512 EUs should be launched alongside these Arc models and will also carry an Arc AXXX naming convention.
Sources:
Intel (drivers), via VideoCardz
Presumably, the "M" label designates the mobile variants for the laptop/notebook sector, while the rest will fit in the regular PCIe slot. According to some speculation, the Arc A380 model will be at NVIDIA GeForce GTS 1650 SUPER level, while the weaker Arc A350 will be around RTX 3050 or AMD Radeon RX 6400 level of performance. The Arc A350 will have 128 EUs enabled out of the whole 512 in the DG2 package. The complete DG2 chip with 512 EUs should be launched alongside these Arc models and will also carry an Arc AXXX naming convention.
19 Comments on Leaked Intel Graphics Drivers Uncover Arc Alchemist A380 and A350 GPU Naming
although the naming seems reasonable, I wonder how many will be confused by it initially.
If Nvidia want to release a RTX 6800XT they can and AMD can't do much about it.
They generally try to avoid that, but there was a Nvidia 6800 and now there is an AMD one.
Alchemist, you say... (If you know, you know. Only thing worse was Jurassic Bark.)
That said, AMD A320. :laugh:
The A350 is quieter though and overall a better plane imho.
Loathe the 787, especially in economy as it has extra narrow seats.