Intel flagship Alchemist graphics card appears in benchmarks
One of the most talked-about things in the PC industry this year is Intel’s upcoming Intel Arc brand Alchemist (DG2) graphics card. Although Intel has delayed the release time, it is already on the line, and it is only a matter of time before the graphics card market will usher in a high probability of change. For gamers, more competition isn’t a bad thing.
Recently, Intel’s flagship Alchemist graphics card, the model equipped with DG2-512EU, appeared in the SiSoftware database. The system was shown to be tested on the Coffee Lake-S platform. The core clock of the graphics card reaches 2.1 GHz, but it is unclear whether it is the base clock or the boost clock. It has 4096 stream processors, 4MB of L2 cache, and 12.8GB of video memory. The video memory capacity should just be the information display error, according to past news, the graphics card should be equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 memory, the bit width is 256 bits, and the rate may be 16 Gbps, but the possibility of 18 Gbps cannot be ruled out.
In general benchmarks, this Alchemist graphics card scored 9017.52 Mpix/s, which is higher than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti’s 8369.51 Mpix/s, and the Radeon RX 6700 XT’s 7910.91 Mpix/s, and lower than the AMD Radeon RX 6800’s 10607.29 Mpix/s. In tests of different precisions, this Alchemist graphics card and the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti have a winner and loser, and the overall performance should be relatively close.
The entry-level Alchemist graphics card (Arc A380) previously equipped with DG2-128EU also appeared in the benchmark test, with a score of 2956.10 Mpix/s. Considering the core size of the DG2-512EU is four times that, such a score should be no problem. Intel’s GPUs will use the new Xe Core, manufactured with TSMC’s N6 process, support hardware-based ray tracing and artificial intelligence-driven super sampling (XeSS), and fully support DirectX 12 Ultimate.
