Perhaps it is the lack of sincerity of AMD and NVIDIA's two 2022 entry-level new products, the RX 6500 XT/RTX 3050, which has made many DIY players start to pay attention to Intel's unique time to market. Recently, a blogger released a physical photo of Intel Arc Alchemist suspected of being Intel discrete graphics.
Judging from the photos given, the completion of this graphics card is very high, there is no messy welding, and the length of the PCB board is almost four times that of the heatsink, which should be positioned as a high-end model.
From the configuration of the PCB board, there are 8 suspected video memory areas on the graphics card, and the capacitor arrangement is tight enough, as if it is close to the actual sales of the engineering prototype version.
It is reported that this graphics card supports 6+8Pin power supply, peak power of more than 300W, is undoubtedly a high-end Arc Alchemist graphics card. Previously, it was revealed that the opponent of this graphics card was GeForce RTX 3070, but it still needs actual performance tests to verify its true positioning.
Previously, there was news that Intel's flagship graphics will use the full Xe-HPG 512EU core, and with 16GB GDDR6 video memory, the video memory frequency is 16Gbps, but do not rule out the possibility of using 18Gbps video memory, GPU frequency is about 2.2GHz to 2.5GHz. Seeing that Q1 2022 is not over, maybe Intel will bring surprises to everyone at the end of March.