Intel announced a family of GPUs designed for workstation and professional applications. It’s about Arc Pro series, consisting of three models: Intel Arc Pro A40, Intel Arc Pro A50 and Intel Arc Pro A30M. The first two are created for integration into workstations, while the third will be for professional notebooks.
All are capable of hardware ray tracing and also offer AV1 hardware acceleration. When it was developed, it was thought that they could be used for artificial intelligence tasks. Also with those related to the multimedia world and requiring computing and graphics power, which is done with applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro, that is, common software tools for visual content creators.
The Intel Arc Pro A40 GPU It will be available in a single-slot design. It will have a graphics performance of 3.5 teraflops, eight ray tracing cores and 6 GB of GDDR6 memory. With this GPU, Intel wants to offer cards with remarkable graphics performance for small computers.
With reference to Intel Arc Pro A50It features a dual-slot form factor, 4.8 teraflops of graphics performance, eight ray tracing cores, and 6GB of GDDR6 memory. Due to its dimensions and format, it has been developed with its integration into more conventional workstations in mind, although it can also be used in small format devices.
Both GPUs offer four Mini DisplayPort connectors, allowing teams running them to have different monitor connection configurations. They are compatible with two 8K monitors at 60Hz, one 5K at 240Hz, two 5K at 120Hz or four 4K at 60Hz. They are developed for professionals, but not for gaming, as their design favored the use of applications such as Blender or Intel wants these GPUs to be certified for applications in the engineering, construction, architecture and manufacturing sectors.
The third of the new Intel GPUs, Arc Pro A30M, achieves 3.5 teraflops of graphics performance and has eight ray tracing cores and 4 GB of GDDR6 memory. It is designed for use with a peak power of between 35 and 50 watts, and its output screens will depend on the notebook configurations that integrate it. All three GPUs will be available to desktop and notebook manufacturers by the end of this year.