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First Intel Arc A730M Powered Laptop Goes on Sale, in China

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The first benchmark result of an Intel Arc A730M laptop made an appearance online and the mysterious laptop used to run 3DMark turned out to be from a Chinese company called Machenike. The laptop itself appears to go under the name of Dawn16 Discovery Edition and features a 16-inch display with a native resolution of 2560 x 1600, with a 165 Hz refresh rate. CPU wise, Machenike went with a Core i7-12700H, which is a 6+8 core CPU with 20 threads, where the performance cores top out at 4.7 GHz. The CPU has been paired with 16 GB of 4800 MHz DDR5 memory and the system also has a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD of some kind, with a max read speed of 3500 MB/s, which isn't particularly impressive. Other features include Thunderbolt 4 support, WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, as well as an 80 Whr battery pack.

However, none of the above is particularly unique and what matters here is of course the Intel Arc A730M GPU. It has been paired with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 192-bit interface, at 14 Gbps according to the specs. The memory bandwidth is said to be 336 GB/s. The company also provided a couple of performance metrics, with a 3DMark TimeSpy figure of 10002 points and a 3DMark Fire Strike figure of 23090 points. The TimeSpy score is a few points slower than the numbers posted earlier, but helps verify the earlier test result. Other interesting nuggets of information include support for 8k60 12-bit HDR video decoding for AV1, HEVC, AVC and VP9, as well as 8k 10-bit HDR encoding for said formats. Here a figure for the Puget Benchmark in what appears to be Photoshop (PS) is provided, where it scores 1188 points. The laptop is up for what appears to be pre-order, with a price tag of 7,499 RMB, or about US$1,130.



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It's ALIVE!!!

Nice.
 
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Can someone put these scores in context? How does ARC compare to competing mobile graphics solutions? Is it in the ballpark of a mobile RTX 3070 ?
 
Can someone put these scores in context? How does ARC compare to competing mobile graphics solutions? Is it in the ballpark of a mobile RTX 3070 ?
See previous news post.
 
Can anyone translate the Chinese? I'm curious if it says anything about TDP or cooling in that image that has text pointing to some very beefy looking ventilation.

On the plus side, if this is ~3070(M) performance in a thin & light then the 384EU variant of Arc is looking competitive.

I really wish Intel would just frickin' launch it. The fact they've sampled OEM laptop vendors for long enough that a final retail product is in someone's hands is frustrating when it's the desktop GPU market that is most desperately in need of competition and where Intel will make the most profit.
 
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Can anyone translate the Chinese? I'm curious if it says anything about TDP or cooling in that image that has text pointing to some very beefy looking ventilation.
Doesn't appear to be anything TDP related anywhere and I don't really need to be able to read chinese to figure that out.
Even the picture that shows more details about the cooling mention nothing that appears to be useful.

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On the plus side, if this is ~3070(M) performance in a thin & light then the 384EU variant of Arc is looking competitive.
Thin and light? I think we have to agree to disagree about that, as it's 2.45 kg and 26.6 mm thick.
I really wish Intel would just frickin' launch it. The fact they've sampled OEM laptop vendors for long enough that a final retail product is in someone's hands is frustrating when it's the desktop GPU market that is most desperately in need of competition and where Intel will make the most profit.
PRC only. No Intel GPUs for capitalist countries.
 
It's ALIVE!!!

Nice.
Intel's little frankenstein badboy....

Can anyone translate the Chinese? I'm curious if it says anything about TDP or cooling in that image that has text pointing to some very beefy looking ventilation.

On the plus side, if this is ~3070(M) performance in a thin & light then the 384EU variant of Arc is looking competitive.

I really wish Intel would just frickin' launch it. The fact they've sampled OEM laptop vendors for long enough that a final retail product is in someone's hands is frustrating when it's the desktop GPU market that is most desperately in need of competition and where Intel will make the most profit.
Idk how we missed it but perhaps this should get some more attention.

 
PRC only. No Intel GPUs for capitalist countries.

It's so for when it sucks, all those people are stuck behind a firewall and cant tweet about it to let the shareholders know.
 
So PRC citizens get to be the beta testers for Raja, probably because he knows that if he tried to drop his half-baked turd on Westerners we'd tank Intel's share price.
 
Someone needs to get a hold of one of these and benchmark it.


Official benchmarks not hearsay is what we need to see.
You order one from JD.com then, link in the article, they ship internationally.
 
Thin and light? I think we have to agree to disagree about that, as it's 2.45 kg and 26.6 mm thick.

Ah okay. I was going solely off the pictures since neither dimensions nor weights were posted. To me it looked thin - the thickest part of the body is about 2 USB-A ports thick, in the ballpark of 12-13mm so 26.6mm probably covers the screen lid and feet height:
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2.45Kg sure isn't what I'd call light, 2Kg is closer to what I'd call portable for a 15, and that's the weight of convertibles with glass screens.
 
Ah okay. I was going solely off the pictures since neither dimensions nor weights were posted. To me it looked thin - the thickest part of the body is about 2 USB-A ports thick, in the ballpark of 12-13mm so 26.6mm probably covers the screen lid and feet height:
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2.45Kg sure isn't what I'd call light, 2Kg is closer to what I'd call portable for a 15, and that's the weight of convertibles with glass screens.
Didn't bother posting too detailed specs, since it'll most likely never be sold outside of the PRC in this configuration and not at all by this brand.
 
Anyone want a first bite, eh?
 
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