Intel Arc, a third card with ACM-G12 chip coming?

Intel Arc, a third card with ACM-G12 chip coming?

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Last week, Intel officially announced its new Intel ARC A GPUs for laptops, featuring the ACM-G10 and ACM-G11 chips. However, according to what has been leaked on the net, the company could also have a new graphics card with ACM-G12 chip in the pipeline.

A patch released for Intel Graphics Compiler has in fact appeared on GitHub that mentions the names DG2-256 and ACM-G12. The first denomination indicates that it is a 256 Execution Unit (EU) GPU with 16 Xe-Cores and 2048 FP32 cores. If this information turns out to be correct, the new chip would be somewhere between the ACM-G11 and the top-of-the-range ACM-G10. For now, the other specifications, such as the memory bus, are not known, nor why Intel did not want to show it during the presentation of the other ARC A models; perhaps the idea of ​​the Santa Clara house is to release this new model only at a later time.




Intel's first ARC GPUs should arrive this month in the notebook market, initially with the low-end models Arc 3 A350M and Arc 3 A370M, while we will have to wait for the arrival of summer to be able to get our hands on desktop models. Intel with its video cards should offer products for all bands, with the top of the range that would rank on par with Nvidia's RTX 3070/3070 Ti. All that remains is to be patient and find out if Intel will be able to compete with Nvidia and AMD, which have dominated the GPU market for several years.





First discrete Intel GPU falls flat against Nvidia GTX 1650

The first discrete Intel GPU has arrived on the scene, but early tests suggest it falls flat against Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1650. The YouTube channel Benchmark Lab recently tested the Intel Arc Alchemist A370M chip across ten games, and it failed to keep up with the green team’s 2019 mobile offering.


According to Benchmark Lab’s data, the new Intel GPU pumps out significantly less frames than the GTX 1650. Comparatively, there’s a performance gap of around 15-20% in games like The Witcher 3, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Red Dead Redemption 2 . Of course, failing to boost fps is only part of the problem, as release notes for the mobile chip warn of glitching and crashing when running Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Forza Horizon 5, and various other big releases.


The first Arc Alchemist Intel GPU makes its debut nestled within the new Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro, which adds insult to injury. In theory, an Intel Core i7-12700H Alder Lake should give it an advantage against a GTX 1650 paired with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600H. Yet, it seems like even one of the best gaming CPUs can’t carry the A370M to Nvidia’s level.


It’s worth noting that in terms of spec, the Intel Arc A370M doesn’t quite match up with the Nvidia GTX 1650, as the latter has a larger memory bus and faster clock speeds. It’s also early days for the blue team’s newcomer, as game-changing features like Intel XeSS AI upscaling won’t arrive until the summer.

Blue GPU: Here’s everything we know about Intel Arc Alchemist.


It’s easy to get disheartened about the new Intel GPUs performance quirks, but the company is likely hard at work addressing the early issues. We’ve still got a few months before the “limited edition” Arc Alchemist graphics card for gaming PCs arrives on the scene, leaving some room for driver optimisation. That said, the next-gen Nvidia RTX 4000 series is on the horizon, so if it wants to rank among the best graphics cards, it’ll have to up its game in more ways than one.