Intel has introduced the primary of its Arc A-series 3 graphics desktop playing cards — the ARC3 A380 Discrete Graphics processor — to be used in Intel-based computer systems.
The ARC 3 A380 GPU makes use of eight Xe cores with a clock pace of two,000 Mhz with 6GB of GDDR6 Reminiscence for as much as 192 GB/s of bandwidth. That’s as much as twice the efficiency of Intel Iris XeLP graphics, making the ARC3 Discrete GPU best for gaming and content material creation.
“Intel Arc A-series 3 graphics desktop merchandise symbolize the subsequent step in Intel’s journey to convey discrete graphics to market,” the corporate says.
“The Intel Arc A-series 3 graphics brings next-generation applied sciences to mainstream players and creators with essentially the most full expertise characteristic set on this market section, prepared for next-generation workloads.”
With the Codename Alchemist, the A380 is Intel’s first full-featured graphics card, primarily based on Intel’s Xe Excessive-Efficiency Graphics (Xe HPG) microarchitecture.
It helps Direct 12 Final gaming options together with hardware-accelerated ray tracing, variable-rate shading, mesh shading, and sampler suggestions. The cardboard may show 1080p video and better video utilizing Intel’s AI-based tremendous sampling expertise, XeSS.
For content material creation, Intel has integrated its Xe Media Engine for processing hi-resolution video AV1 {hardware} encoding acceleration.
The Engine helps H.265 HEVC and H.264 and is able to resolutions as much as 8K. The A380 may drive as much as 4 4K 120Hz HDR shows or two 8K 60Hz shows by way of its Xe Show Engine, and 1080p and 1440p resolutions at 360Hz.
Intel’s Arc Management Studio takes the management of video playback to the subsequent degree with Zoom-Esque video show instruments equivalent to real-time inexperienced display screen, background blurring, and auto-camera framing.
Throughout stay broadcast and video streaming, customers can personalize backgrounds, keep correctly centered by way of face monitoring, and broadcast from wherever on the earth.
Customers may even produce stay streaming “let’s play” movies with extra enter from their gaming consoles.
The A380 GPU might be obtainable by way of producers like Acer, ASUS, Gigabyte, GUNNIR, HP, and MSI beginning on the finish of June 2022, and might be a part of a phased worldwide rollout beginning in China. Costs begin at about $153 (1030 Yuan).
