The chip giant posted a new video where it confirmed final specifications of Intel Arc Alchemist graphics cards, including the 3 Series, which is the most basic and economical, up to the 7 Series, which will be the most powerful of this generation. They all use the same architecture (Xe HPG or High Performance for Gaming) and have dedicated hardware for ray tracing acceleration and artificial intelligence.

In this sense, it is important to note that Intel Arc Alchemist are divided into three large blocks. On the one hand, we have the FP32 cores, also known as shader units, which deal with general computing tasks, and on the other hand, we have the XMX arrays, specialized in artificial intelligence and deep learning, and the RTU units, specialized in rendering. rays. All are integrated into the Xe blocks and each block has 128 shaders, 8 XMX matrix engines and an RTU unit.

Intel decided to specialize with Arc Alchemist and it’s totally understandable since we’ve seen it since 2018 the future of PC gaming goes through this connection shader geometry, artificial intelligence and ray tracing acceleration across different core groups.

XMX arrays will take care of the hardware acceleration technology Intel XeSS Intelligent Scaling, and the RTUs will perform all the workload associated with ray tracing, this frees up the shaders completely. It’s also important to keep in mind that they can work asynchronously, which will avoid bottlenecks caused by queues and waiting times.

Intel Arc 3 A380 specifications

• 8 Xe cores.
• 1024 shaders.
• 2000 MHz GPU.
• 128 XMX fields.
• 8 RTU cores.
• 96-bit bus.
• 6 GB GDDR6 memory (bandwidth 186 GB/s).

Intel Arc 5 A580 specifications

• 24 Xe cores.
• 3072 shaders.
• 1700 MHz GPU.
• 384 XMX fields.
• 24 RTU cores.
• 256-bit bus.
• 8 GB GDDR6 (bandwidth 512 GB/s).

Intel Arc 7 A750 specifications

• 28 Xe cores.
• 3,584 shaders.
• 2050 MHz GPU.
• 448 XMX fields.
• 28 RTU cores.
• 256-bit bus.
• 8 GB GDDR6 (bandwidth 512 GB/s).

Intel Arc 7 A770 specifications

• 32 Xe cores.
• 4,096 shaders.
• 2100 MHz GPU.
• 512 XMX fields.
• 32 RTU cores.
• 256-bit bus.
• 8-16 GB GDDR6 (560 GB/s bandwidth).

We don’t have an official release date yet, but we do know that Intel Arc Alchemist will offer very competitive performance in both ray tracing and rasterization, thanks to Intel XeSS technology they will become a state-of-the-art product. Its price will also be very attractive, according to Intel itself, although the Santa Clara giant still needs to polish the drivers and support for outdated APIs to ensure that it lives up to the expectations it has raised.

I remind you that the Intel Arc 3 A380 competes with GeForce GTX 1650 and Radeon RX 6400, while the Intel Arc 5 A580 will play in the league GeForce RTX 3050 (AMD has no direct equivalent at this level.) The Intel Arc 7 A750 and A770 will compete directly GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (Which brings us to the Radeon RX 6600 and Radeon RX 6700 band).