Intel Arc's brilliant discrete graphics card was finally released, but the first mobile version was only low-end, and the desktop version had to wait.
A few days ago, Intel previewed a limited edition desktop graphics card, dual fans, dual slots, LOGO faith lights, three DP and an HDMI interface, and is expected to be full of 32 Xe cores and 16GB GDDR6 video memory.
It's just that I don't know where the "limit" is - the specifications are particularly high? Very limited supply?
Today, Tom Peterson, an academician of Intel responsible for graphics technology innovation, intentionally or unintentionally exposed a part of a desktop graphics card in an interview with foreign media, and can see the PCIe x16 interface gold finger, as well as three 8-pin auxiliary power supply interfaces.
Three 8-pin connectors mean a maximum power supply capacity of 450W, is the power consumption of Intel desktop graphics cards so high?
This is not easy to say, but the exposed one is obviously an engineering sample or even an evaluation sample, and you can see that the three 8-pin interfaces are not next to each other, but have a lot of space for each other.
The power supply interface is not visible on the limited edition rendering of the previous preview, and the sample card exposed earlier only uses 8 +6 pins.
Just don't know, Intel has obviously announced the ATX 3.0 power specification, a single 16-pin interface can power up to 600W, why use the traditional three 8-pin, may be the sake of early samples.
Samples exposed earlier
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