News hardware Intel: its most powerful graphics cards are revealed a little more
Expected this year on the graphics card market, Intel has been rather stingy with information so far, especially regarding its models for desktop PCs. But some interesting information has hit the Web this week.
Summary
- Intel Video Reveals Unknown Arc GPU
- An Intel Arc graphics card with three 8-pin PCIe connectors
- Intel Arc eagerly awaited
If Intel mentioned at the end of March the future of Arc on laptops, the manufacturer has not yet revealed much about its upcoming graphics cards on desktop computers. This week, however, two interesting pieces of information remind us that‘Intel Arc is gearing up to enter the desktop GPU market in late 2022.
Intel Video Reveals Unknown Arc GPU
A few days ago, Intel held an online conference on the occasion of the launch of Intel ARC Archemist 3, 5 and 7 graphics chips, exclusively for laptops. To see the arrival of the models intended for desktop computers, it will probably be necessary to wait until the start of the 2022 school year.
However, the most curious have seen something they were probably not supposed to see in a video presenting the Intel Arc Control software, which owners of an Arc graphics card can use to configure their component. Stealth Image Reveals Unknown Arc GPU to Battalion whose performance seems consistent.
In the program, 2250 MHz GPU frequency and 1093 MHz VRAM for a utilization rate of 99.46%, a thermal envelope of 172W and a temperature of 80°C. If it is indeed an existing graphics card and not a little joke from Intel, it could be one of its most powerful models. Something to arouse the curiosity of those who await the concrete arrival of the competitor from AMD and Nvidia on the GPU market.
An Intel Arc graphics card with three 8-pin PCIe connectors
Other information that deserves our attention: the intervention made by Tom Petersen, “Intel Graphics Innovation Fellow”, during the HotHardware show on YouTube. This one sneakily introduced the Arc Limited Editiona graphics card intended to be installed on a desktop computer.
You have to be extremely attentive to see the detail that jumped out at some viewers: the presence of three 8-pin PCIe connectors on the graphics card, which ensures a power of 450 Watts. The WCCFTech site, which was among the first to point out the detail, believes it to be a prototype due to connector spacing. Intel may choose to go with the ATX 3.0 specificationwhose 16-pin connectors allow up to 300 Watts of power, compared to 150 Watts for 8-pin PCIe connectors.
Intel Arc eagerly awaited
The fact that Internet users are on the lookout for the smallest detail concerning Intel Arc testifies to a certain impatience vis-à-vis the arrival of the manufacturer on the market. Until Intel decides to communicate concretely on graphics cards intended for desktop computers, we can expect new investigations of this kind carried out by Web sleuths.
By akazanWriting jeuxvideo.com
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