Intel has previously said that Intel ARC discrete graphics, code-named Alchemy, will be officially launched in the first quarter of this year. A few days ago, the black version of the Intel Arc graphics card photos were also exposed, in addition to the color, the protective cover of the graphics card radiator is exactly the same as the silver version leaked last year.
According to the exposure photos, this Intel Arc graphics card has a dual fan design with three DP+1 HDMI video outputs at the tail. According to previous news, Intel has added DP 2.0 related content to its graphics card driver patch. Therefore, it is not surprising that Arc graphics cards will be the first to carry the DP 2.0 interface.
DP2.0 (DisplayPort2.0) was released by the VESA Video Electronic Standards Association in 2019 as the fastest AV data exchange protocol, DP2.0 supports a maximum of 16k resolution (15360 * 8460@60Hz) and 80 Gbps of raw bandwidth, supporting DisplayPort and USB Type-C two physical form factors.
(Intel Arc Alchemist Graphics Silver Engineering Edition exposed last year)
In addition, according to the design of the backplane, this graphics card reserves 8 video memory bits, so the video memory capacity can reach 16GB. Coupled with the dual fan design, it is speculated that the leaked ARC graphics card should belong to the flagship SKU with 512 execution units (EU), and the performance is expected to reach the level of the RTX 3070 Ti, which is consistent with the information exposed earlier.
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