A possible entry-level model for the company’s video gamer cards, the Intel Arc A380 has just been found in the SiSoftware Sandra database, a popular benchmark that assesses the overall performance of desktops and notebooks. In addition to the specifications, the result shows that, at least in the most basic segment, the Santa Clara giant can have the breath to calmly face the latest solutions from AMD and Nvidia.
Intel Arc A380 can perform RTX 3050 Ti
Arc A380 board found by leaker @momomo_us in several records, which include most of the solution’s specifications. Apparently, the novelty will be equipped with the DG2-128 GPU, with 128 Execution Units (EUs) for a total of 1,024 cores, accompanied by 6 GB of GDDR6 RAM, 1 MB of L2 cache and very high clocks, in the house from 2.45 GHz.
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With this set, the component delivers around 2,870 Mpix/s in the overall processing test, a respectable level that suggests the A380 will be more competitive than expected — in comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti, Nvidia’s current entry-level solution, reaches 2,980 Mpix/s, a difference of only 3% compared to Intel’s board.
The similarity in performance is a good sign for the Santa Clara giant, which should really enter the GPU market with competitive products, and reinforce theories that Nvidia would be preparing products, like the RTX 2050, to block Intel’s advances. In addition, the registrations also breathe new life into the leaky naming scheme, and the 96-EU DG2-96 variant, which may come to market as the Arc A350, replacing the Iris Xe MAX.
Arc Alchemist line debuts in early 2022
Remember that the Arc A380 will not be the only member of the Arc Alchemist family and, in fact, it is the most basic model, which sets an even more promising scenario for the more robust models. The line will be led by the DG2-512, possibly called the Arc A580 or A780, with 512 EUs and a total of 4,096 cores.
If performance is scaled almost linearly, as Intel promised during the announcement of the Xe-HPG and XE-HPC architectures, the Arc 780 could deliver about 4 times the performance of the Arc A380, or something close to 11,200 Mpix/ s, which would put it on a level very close to that of the GeForce RTX 3080. Still, it is important to note that the high performance is nothing but speculation at the moment.
The Intel Arc Alchemist family, based on the first generation of the Xe-HPG microarchitecture, is expected to be made official in the first quarter of 2022, and should receive at least news during CES 2022, which took place this week.
