Last month, Intel hyped Arc, which will be based on a GPU codenamed “Alchemist,” with a gameplay trailer showing the graphics running various games at 1440p, including Rider’s Republic, Age of Empires 4, Back 4 Blood, Rift Breaker, and Hitman 3. The clip, however, didn’t include frame rates and we still haven’t seen the cards being used on any production laptops or desktops.
Moving beyond gaming, popular video-editing program DaVinci Resolve will apparently take advantage of Intel’s Deep Link technology to use both integrated and discrete graphics together to more rapidly encode video.
Those are the only details Intel is providing so far despite Arc being only months away from arriving in consumer products. Honestly, I’m somewhat concerned with how Intel is boasting about Arc being used in more than 50 new desktop and laptop designs without giving us a stack of graphs revealing how well these chips supposedly perform.
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Perhaps the chipmaker doesn’t want to overshadow the launch of its 12th-gen Alder Lake laptop CPUs. Whatever the case, we’ll be patiently waiting for Intel to release the performance, pricing, and availability for its first serious go at competing against Nvidia and AMD. Hell, given the chip shortage, Arc might not need to outdo those rivals so long as they are available to PC enthusiasts who are starving for components.