There are only a few days left for Intel to meet its latest schedule for the arrival of its GPUs on the desktop during the second quarter of this year… if until then pessimism reigned, some signals have turned green. So the company published by mistake on its website a link confirming that the entry-level GPU, Arc A3, would be deployed on desktops.
No excitement, however, if Intel has been “limited” on dates, there is an area where the blue have been rather precise: the series of GPU Arc A3 should first be found in large OEM partners of Intel, ie in pre-assembled PCs. The limitation doesn’t stop there as they also indicated that this launch would be limited to the Chinese market . These cards will then arrive on the retail market shortly after through partner brands again.
Regarding the most interesting models: the Intel Arc A7 and Arc A5, no real changes and we expect according to Intel a launch this summer. Needless to say, these delays and other procrastinations greatly explain the disappointing announcements of AMD and Nvidia at Computex. In any case, our first contact with an Intel GPU for desktop PCs should take place in a few days. It will most likely be through one of the two Arc A310 or Arc A380 models. These two versions are both based on the ACM-G11 graphics chip with 1024 and 512 cores respectively, as well as 6 GB / 4 GB of GDDR6 memory and an interface of 96 and 64 bits of memory. Nothing to get excited about, but it is necessary to start well and especially note that the entry level has been abandoned for some time, to say the least. Coincidentally, Nvidia is about to launch the GTX 1630…
