Intel’s new patch suggests a third Arc GPU with 16 Xe-Cores could still be released
Intel has confirmed at the Intel Arc brand-independent graphics card launch that the product codenamed Alchemist (DG2) is divided into two SoC designs, ACM-G10, and ACM-G11. ACM-G10 is also known as DG2-512 or SOC1 in the past, and ACM-G11 is DG2-128 or SOC2. These names have appeared in Intel’s PPT, product documentation, related development software, and Linux patches over the past period of time.
In fact, before Intel officially released the Arc graphics card, there were reports that there was a third DG2 chip (DG2-256/SOC3/ACM-G12). This GPU, also based on the Xe-HPG architecture, has 256 EUs, or 2048 FP32 cores, or should be called DG2-256. Compared with the high-end DG2-512, the DG2-256 has half the specifications. According to VideoCardz, even on the same day that Intel released two mobile GPUs, the A350M and A370M, the name of the third DG2 chip appeared in the Intel Graphics Compiler for OpenCL update on same day, and perhaps Intel has not given up on this chip.
Intel may also be working on a third DG2 chip, not sure if it will be for the mobile, desktop, or workstation line. Its memory bit width is also yet to be confirmed, it may be 192-bit or 128-bit. Of course, it is not ruled out that Intel will eventually abandon this chip.
