Intel Iris Alchemy desktop graphics may be postponed, and the first products will have two models

The graphics card market will see a lot of new products in 2022, in addition to Nvidia's GeForce RTX 40 series and AMD's Radeon RX 7000 series, the most important thing to pay attention to is Intel's discrete graphics. Intel Arc (Ruixuan) as Intel's new high-performance gaming graphics brand, the first generation of product Alchemy graphics (DG2) launched on the market, from the performance, price and market positioning will have an impact on Nvidia and AMD, is likely to establish a three-legged situation.

At present, Intel has distributed the DG2 series OF GPUs to various board manufacturers and is currently debugging. According to TomsHardware, Intel plans to launch two of the first Alchemy graphics cards in the desktop market, namely DG2-512EU and DG2-384EU. The former has 4096 stream processors, equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 memory, with a memory width of 256 bits, a rumored core frequency between 2.2 GHz and 2.5 GHz, and a TDP of 225W, providing performance similar to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/RTX 3070 Ti. The latter has 3072 stream processors with 12GB of GDDR6 memory, possibly 192 bits wide, and will cut to the location of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.

It is understood that Intel originally planned to release these two products in January 2022, but it is likely to be postponed to March now. In fact, before that, it was reported that Intel's first Sharp brand discrete graphics were only for mobile platforms, launched with Alder Lake Mobile in the first quarter of 2022, and not launched for desktop platforms until the second quarter of 2022. Intel's delayed program is said to help refine drivers and avoid direct competition with NVIDIA GPUs in January.

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