Thursday, April 21st 2022
Intel Readies Arc "Alchemist" A310 Entry-level GPU to Match RX 6400-level Performance
With its desktop graphics card lineup still elusive, the company is planning a new entry-level SKU positioned below the Arc A380 and A350M. Called A310, this chip will be based on a heavily cut-down version of the DG2-128 (ACM-G11) silicon, and offer performance levels somewhere between the Iris Xe MAX (DG1) desktop discrete GPU, and the A350M, with the design goal being to compete with AMD's Radeon RX 6400 and NVIDIA's GTX 1650 in the entry-level space.
At this point the core configuration of the A310 is not known. It is speculated to feature 64 to 96 execution units (EU) out of the 128 present on the ACM-G11 silicon. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 64-bit wide memory bus, could remain standard fare for this card. All of the media-acceleration features of "Alchemist" could be featured, including AV1 decode and encode. The A310 could make for a good combo with future Intel workstation or HEDT platforms with non-gaming visual requirements. The ACM-G11 is built on the 6 nm silicon fabrication process, and so the A310 could come with a low power footprint that doesn't need additional power connectors.
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At this point the core configuration of the A310 is not known. It is speculated to feature 64 to 96 execution units (EU) out of the 128 present on the ACM-G11 silicon. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 64-bit wide memory bus, could remain standard fare for this card. All of the media-acceleration features of "Alchemist" could be featured, including AV1 decode and encode. The A310 could make for a good combo with future Intel workstation or HEDT platforms with non-gaming visual requirements. The ACM-G11 is built on the 6 nm silicon fabrication process, and so the A310 could come with a low power footprint that doesn't need additional power connectors.
25 Comments on Intel Readies Arc "Alchemist" A310 Entry-level GPU to Match RX 6400-level Performance
It's so interesting that this is Chinese characters. So where did this news come from?
So the narrative until now was that the top of the line Arc would have around 6700XT performance level, so a design with 4096 cores and 256bit bus would be needed to match a RDNA2 design with 2560 cores and 192bit bus and now the narrative changed to Intel's 512/768 shader 64bit bus part can match RDNA2 768 shader 64bit bus RX 6400? Does it take to be a genius to disregard it immediately?
EDIT: if it has 512 shaders, we are talking in the region of RX 560 performance level or a bit above depending on the clocks and RX560 was $99/$119 (2GB/4GB) 5 years ago...
"the next generation of intel Arc gpu's promise to be twice as fast as the last"
Don't believe everything you read.
Albert E. once wrote, "Life is like a bicycle". Intel keeps going round and round and cant find the exit.
They had three or four generations of vaporware, as far as I can remember. Each one much better than the last!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaze3D
We won't know for sure if they're any good till release. I wonder how good their HSR is.
Thats why the release date is being pushed forward and forward.