Hold on to the Intel Arc A370M, Raja Koduri might reap the rewards of his hard work, as this Alchemist Xe-HPG based notebook GPU is very similar to the NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super. We learned this through a leak at SiSoftware.
Intel Arc benchmarks have finally leaked and opened the melon of the A370M model, which is aimed at the lower end. It’s a laptop graphics card that comes with 4GB of GDDR6 and 128 EUs, though the specs are a bit of a mess there. It improves on the results in these benchmarks that AMD’s own Radeon RX 580 achieved back in the day as the technology advances!
Intel Arc A370M will compete strongly in low-end notebooks
SiSoftware Sandra’s database has sounded the alarm after revealing the Intel Arc A370M with all its specifications. However, there are some errors in the screenshot, as the A370M does not have 160 EUs, but 128, 4 GB GDDR6 and uses 128-bit as a memory bus. A frequency of 1.55 GHz is mentioned, and we don’t know if this refers to the iGPU (UHD 770) or Intel’s dGPU.
In the GP tests, it achieved 2,399.97 Mpix/s, which is very close to what the NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super Desktop GPU achieves. Not bad for a notebook GPU, but Intel’s model is more interesting because it offers features like XeSS and ray tracing, not to mention encoding and decoding algorithms.
What do we know about Intel Arc Alchemist? Well, several models are expected to be unveiled in the first quarter of 2022, and as you can see in the graphic from the wccftech team, the Arc DG2-512 GPU is the flagship. Intel won’t be introducing anything more powerful, and that’s saying something considering it’s paired with the NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti.
The graphics cards will feature ray tracing and use XeSS, which would be the super sampling of Xe and would be similar to NVIDIA DLSS or AMD FSR. The architecture will be called Xe-HPG and will use TSMC’s 6nm process, which AMD already uses in its latest RX 6000 (e.g. RX 6500 XT). Everything is divided into Xe cores, which are blocks consisting of 16 vector and 16 matrix engines. Each vector engine in turn consists of 8 ALUs.
Each Xe core is fused with a ray-tracing unit and a sampler, with a 1-pixel backend running for every 2 Xe cores. You will see 5 SKUs or GPUs:
- SKU1 of 512 EUs, i.e. the DG2-512.
- SKU2 of 384 EUs, which is the A380.
- SKU3 256 EUs, which is 256 EUs and 8 GB GDDR6.
- SKU4 and SKU5 of 128 and 96 EUs, which is the A370M.
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