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| Release date | March 30, 2022 (2022-03-30)[1] |
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| Manufactured by | TSMC |
| Designed by | Intel |
| Marketed by | Intel |
| Codenames |
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| Architecture | Intel Xe |
| Cores | Up to 32 Xe cores |
| Transistors | Up to 21.7 billion |
| Fabrication process | TSMCN5 TSMCN6 |
| Cards | |
| Entry-level | Arc 3 |
| Mid-range | Arc 5 |
| High-end | Arc 7 |
| API support | |
| DirectX | |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 3.0[a] |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
| Vulkan | Vulkan 1.3 |
| History | |
| Predecessor | |
Intel Arc is a brand ofgraphics processing units designed byIntel. These are discrete GPUs mostly marketed for the high-margingaming PC market. The brand also covers Intel's consumer graphics software and services.
Arc competes withNvidia'sGeForce andAMD'sRadeon lines.[2] The Arc-A series for laptops was launched on March 30, 2022, with the A750 and A770 both released in Q3 2022.[3][4][5] Intel missed their initial Q2 2022 release target, with most discrete Arc GPUs not launching until October 2022.[6]
Intel officially launched the Arc Pro workstation GPUs on August 8, 2022.[7][8]
Intel officially announced the 2nd-generation Battlemage GPUs on December 3rd, 2024.[9][10] The first model, the B580, was released on December 13th, 2024.
According to Intel, the brand is named after the concept ofstory arcs found in video games.[11] Each generation of Arc is named aftercharacter classes sorted by each letter of theLatin alphabet in ascending order. They begin with A, then B, then C, and so on. The first generation is named Alchemist, while Battlemage, Celestial and Druid are the respective names for the second, third and fourth Arc generations.[12]
Developed under the previous codename "DG2", the first generation of Intel Arc GPUs (codenamed "Alchemist") released on March 30, 2022.[1][13] It comes in both add-on desktop card and laptop form factors.TSMC manufactures the die, using theirN6 process.[14]
Alchemist uses theIntel Xe GPU architecture, or more specifically, theXe-HPG variant. Alchemist supports hardware-basedray tracing,XeSS orsupersampling based on neural networks (similar to Nvidia'sDLSS and AMD'sFSR), andDirectX 12 Ultimate.[1][15] Also supported areDisplayPort 2.0 andoverclocking.AV1 fixed-function hardware encoder is included in Alchemist GPUs as part of theIntel Quick Sync Video core.[16]
Intel confirmedASTC support has been removed from hardware starting with Alchemist and future Arc GPU microarchitectures will also not support it.[17]
Arc Alchemist does not support SR-IOV[18] orDirect3D 9 natively, instead falling back on the D3D9On12 wrapper which translates Direct3D 9 calls to their Direct3D 12 equivalents.[19][20]
Arc supportOpenCL 3.0[note 1] for example, this GPU can work in thegridWorld Community Grid.[21]
Display connections:DisplayPort 2.0 (40 Gbit/s bandwidth) andHDMI 2.1
| Branding and Model[22] | Launch | MSRP (USD) | Code name | Process | Transistors (billion) | Die size (mm2) | Core config[b] | L2 cache | Clock rate (MHz)[c] | Fillrate | Memory | Processing power (TFLOPS) | TDP | Bus interface | ||||||||
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| Pixel (GP/s) | Texture (GT/s) | Type | Size (GB) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus width | Clock (MT/s) | Half precision (base) | Single precision (base) | Double precision (base) | |||||||||||||
| Arc 3 | A310 | Sep 28, 2022 | $110 | ACM-G11 (DG2-128) | TSMC N6 | 7.2 | 157 | 6 Xe cores 768:32:16:6 (192:96:2) | 4 MB | 2000 2000 | 32 | 64 | GDDR6 | 4 GB | 124 | 64-bit | 15500 | 6.144 | 3.072 | n/a | 75 W | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| A380 | Jun 14, 2022 | $139 | 8 Xe cores 1024:64:32:8 (256:128:2) | 2000 2050 | 64 65.6 | 128 131.2 | 6 GB | 186 | 96-bit | 8.192 8.3968 | 4.096 4.1984 | n/a n/a | ||||||||||
| Arc 5 | A580 | Oct 10, 2023 | $179 | ACM-G10 (DG2-512) | 21.7 | 406 | 24 Xe cores 3072:192:96:24 (768:384:6) | 8 MB | 1700 1700 | 163.2 | 326.4 | 8 GB | 512 | 256-bit | 16000 | 20.890 | 10.445 | n/a | 175 W | PCIe 4.0 x16 | ||
| Arc 7 | A750 | Oct 14, 2022 | $289 | 28 Xe cores 3584:224:112:28 (896:448:7) | 16 MB | 2050 2400 | 229.6 268.8 | 393.6 460.8 | 29.3888 34.4064 | 14.6944 17.2032 | n/a n/a | 225 W | ||||||||||
| A770 8GB | $329 | 32 Xe cores 4096:256:128:32 (1024:512:8) | 2100 2400 | 268.8 307.2 | 537.6 614.4 | 34.4064 39.3216 | 17.2032 19.6608 | n/a n/a | ||||||||||||||
| A770 16GB | $349 | 16 GB | 560 | 17500 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Branding and Model[23] | Launch | Code name | Process | Transistors (billion) | Die size (mm2) | Core config[a][b] | L2 cache | Core clock (MHz)[c] | Fillrate[d] | Memory | Processing power (TFLOPS) | TDP | Bus interface | ||||||||
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| Pixel (GP/s) | Texture (GT/s) | Type | Size | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus width | Clock (MT/s) | Half precision | Single precision | Double precision | ||||||||||||
| Arc 3 | A350M | Mar 30, 2022 | ACM-G11 (DG2-128) | TSMC N6 | 7.2 | 157 | 6 Xe cores 768:48:24:6 (96:96:2) | 4 MB | 1150 2200 | 27.6 52.8 | 55.2 105.6 | GDDR6 | 4 GB | 112 | 64-bit | 14000 | 3.5328 6.7584 | 1.7664 3.3792 | 0.4416 0.8448 | 25–35 W | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| A370M | 8 Xe cores 1024:64:32:8 (128:128:2) | 1550 2050 | 49.6 65.6 | 99.2 131.2 | 6.3488 8.3968 | 3.1744 4.1984 | 0.7936 1.0496 | 35–50 W | |||||||||||||
| Arc 5 | A530M | Q3 2023 | ACM-G12 (DG2-256) | 12 Xe cores 1536:96:48:12 (192:192:3) | 8 MB | 1300 | 4 GB 8 GB | 224 | 128-bit | 65–95 W | |||||||||||
| A550M | Q2 2022 | ACM-G10 (DG2-512) | 21.7 | 406 | 16 Xe cores 2048:128:64:16 (256:256:4) | 900 1700 | 57.6 108.8 | 115.2 217.6 | 8 GB | 7.3728 13.9264 | 3.6864 6.9632 | 0.9216 1.7408 | 60–80 W | ||||||||
| A570M | Q3 2023 | ACM-G12 (DG2-256) | 1300 | 75–95 W | |||||||||||||||||
| Arc 7 | A730M | Q2 2022 | ACM-G10 (DG2-512) | 21.7 | 406 | 24 Xe cores 3072:192:96:24 (384:384:6) | 12 MB | 1100 2050 | 105.6 196.8 | 211.2 393.6 | 12 GB | 336 | 192-bit | 13.5168 25.1904 | 6.7584 12.5952 | 1.6896 3.1488 | 80–120 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 | |||
| A770M | 32 Xe cores 4096:256:128:32 (512:512:8) | 16 MB | 1650 2050 | 211.2 262.4 | 422.4 524.8 | 16 GB | 512 | 256-bit | 16000 | 27.0336 33.5872 | 13.5168 16.7936 | 3.3792 4.1984 | 120–150 W | ||||||||
| Branding and Model[24] | Launch | Code name | Process | Transistors (billion) | Die size (mm2) | Core config[a] | L2 cache | Core clock (MHz)[b] | Fillrate[c][d] | Memory | Processing power (TFLOPS) | TDP | Bus interface | ||||||||
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| Pixel (GP/s) | Texture (GT/s) | Type | Size | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus width | Clock (MT/s) | Half precision | Single precision | Double precision | ||||||||||||
| Arc Pro | A30M | Aug 8, 2022 | ACM-G11 (DG2-128) | TSMC N6 | 7.2 | 157 | 8 Xe cores 1024:64:32:8 (128:128:2) | 4 MB | 1550 | GDDR6 | 4 GB | 112 | 64-bit | 14000 | 4.20[24] | 50 W | PCIe 4.0 x8 | ||||
| A40 | 6 GB | 192 | 96-bit | 16000 | 5.02[24] | ||||||||||||||||
| A50 | 2050 | 75 W | |||||||||||||||||||
| A60M | June 6, 2023 | ACM-G12 (DG2-256) | 16 Xe cores 2048:128:64:16 (256:256:4) | 1300 | 8 GB | 256 | 128-bit | 9.42[24] | 95 W | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |||||||||||
| A60 | 2000 | 12 GB | 384 | 192-bit | 10.04[24] | 130 W | |||||||||||||||
Battlemage (Xe2) is the second-generation Xe architecture that debuted with its low power variant inLunar Lake mobile processors that released in September 2024.[25] On December 3, 2024, Intel announced two Arc B-Series desktop graphics cards based on the Xe2-HPG graphics architecture.[26]
| Branding and Model[27] | Released | MSRP (USD) | Code name | Transistors (billion) | Die size (mm2) | Core | Cache | Memory | Fillrate[a][b] | Processing power (TFLOPS) | TDP | Bus interface | ||||||||||
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| Config[c] | Clock (MHz)[d] | L1 | L2 | Type | Size | Clock rate (Gb/s) | Band- width (GB/s) | Bus width | Pixel (Gpx/s) | Texture (Gtex/s) | Half precision (base) | Single precision (base) | Double precision (base) | |||||||||
| Arc 5 | B570 | Jan 16, 2025 | $219 | BMG-G21 | 19.6 | 272 mm2 | 18 Xe Cores (144) 2304:144:72:18:144 | 1700 2500 | 4.5 MB | 10 MB | GDDR6 | 10 GB | 19.0 | 380 | 160-bit | 122.4 200.0 | 244.8 360.0 | 23.04 | 11.52 | 1.44 | 150 W | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| B580 | Dec 13, 2024 | $249 | 20 Xe Cores (160) 2560:160:80:20:160 | 1700 2670 | 5 MB | 12 MB | 12 GB | 456 | 192-bit | 136.0 213.6 | 272.0 427.2 | 27.34 | 13.67 | 1.709 | 190 W | |||||||
Intel also revealed future generations of Intel Arc GPUs under development: Celestial (Xe3), and Druid (Xe4).[28][5]
Intel revealed thatMeteor Lake and later generations of CPU SoCs uses an Intel Arc Tile GPU.[29][30]
Intel XeSS is areal-timedeep learning imageupsampling technology developed primarily for use in video games as a competitor to Nvidia'sDLSS and AMD'sFSR technologies. Additionally, XeSS is not restricted to Arc graphics cards. It utilizes XMX instructions exclusive to Arc graphics cards, but will fall back to utilizing DP4a instructions on competing GPUs that have support for DP4a instructions. XeSS is trained with 64 samples per pixel as opposed to Nvidia DLSS's 16 samples per pixel (16K reference images).[31][32]
| Quality preset[a] | Scale factor[b] | Render scale[c] | Scale factor[b] (1.0-1.2) | Render scale[c] (1.0-1.2) |
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| Native Anti-Aliasing(since 1.3) | 1.00x(since 1.3) | 100% | N/A | |
| Ultra Quality Plus(since 1.3) | 1.30x(since 1.3) | 77.0% | ||
| Ultra Quality | 1.50×(since 1.3) | 66.7% | 1.30x | 77.0% |
| Quality | 1.70×(since 1.3) | 58.8% | 1.50x | 66.7% |
| Balanced | 2.00×(since 1.3) | 50.0% | 1.70x | 58.8% |
| Performance | 2.30×(since 1.3) | 43.5% | 2.00x | 50.0% |
| Ultra Performance(since 1.3) | 3.00×(since 1.3) | 33.3% | N/A | |
Performance on Intel Arc GPUs has suffered from poor driver support, particularly at launch. An investigation by Gamers Nexus discovered 43 known driver issues with Arc GPUs, prompting a response and acknowledgement of the issues from Intel.[34][35][36] Intel CEOPat Gelsinger also blamed driver problems as a reason for Arc's delayed launch.[37] A beta driver from October 2022 accidentally reduced the memory clock by 9% on the Arc A770 from 2187 MHz to 2000 MHz, resulting in a 17% reduction in memory bandwidth.[38] This particular issue was later fixed.[39] Intel provides an open source driver for Linux.[40]
As of the Alchemist generation, Arc only includes direct hardware support for theDirectX 11 & 12 andVulkan graphics APIs, with the older DirectX 9 & 10 andOpenGL APIs being supported via a real-timecompatibility layer built into Intel'sgraphics driver.[41] As a result, Alchemist GPUs perform noticeably worse than competingNvidia andAMD GPUs in software that can only use these older APIs, including multiple DirectX 9-basedesports games such asCounter-Strike: Global Offensive,League of Legends andStarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.[42] There is also a performance gap between DirectX 11 and DirectX 12.
A December 2022 driver update improved Arc compatibility and performance with DirectX 9-based games.[43] According to Intel, the driver update made Arc GPUs up to 1.8x faster in DirectX 9 games.[44] A February 2023 driver update further improved Arc's performance on DirectX 9-based games.[45]
Intel Arc requires aUEFI BIOS with resizable BAR support for optimal performance.[46] UEFI Class 1 and Class 2 BIOS are not supported by Intel Arc.