All along, the first high-performance discrete graphics card of the Intel Arc Ruixuan family, DG2/Alchemist, has two cores, one is a 512-unit large core, which is expected to be comparable to the performance of the RTX 3070, and the other is a 128-unit small core, which may be comparable to the GTX 1650 SUPER, and then more models will be derived from them.
Whether it is the official rendering diagram or the official product positioning map, these two cores are the core.
However, in Intel's newly submitted Linux graphics system controller firmware harder (IGSCU FU), there are three cores of DG2 SOC1, SOC2, and SOC3 at the same time, corresponding to the number of units 512, 256, and 128, respectively.
It is likely that the SOC3 256 unit version will be added later and will be released later.
In the previously exposed DG2 product line, there was indeed a 256-unit version, corresponding to SKU3, with 128-bit 16GHz 8GB GDDR6 video memory, but at that time it was generally believed or in fact the castrated version of the 512 unit.
In terms of performance, the 256 unit is exactly between the size of the core from the specifications, so it is almost half the size of the core and twice the size of the small core, and it is estimated that it can be comparable to the RTX 3060, or RX 6600.
It is also interesting that as early as September 2020, there was a 384-unit version of the PCB circuit diagram, combined with the official rendering of 512 units and 256 units, it is estimated that the core area of the SOC3 256 unit version is about 190-200 square millimeters.
SoC1 512 unit core area 24.660× 16.068 ≈ 396.24 square millimeters, SOC2 128 unit core area of about 12.82× 12.20 ≈ 156.40 square millimeters.
Anyway, hurry up and release it, I can't wait...