Mysterious Intel Arc graphics card appears on the web

After many instances, but not least delays, Intel launched the first graphics cards in the Arc family late last fall, with its desktop lineup finally consisting of the midrange Arc A770 and A750. Now another Arc-branded graphics card is finding its way through the test suite Compubench databasewhose specifications present new question marks.

There is no name for the graphics card listed, but from the results it can be concluded that the model has 256 computing units, which in turn means 16 Xe cores. The only other graphics card in Intel’s lineup that matches it is the Arc A550M on the laptop side, but since that little-known graphics card is clocked at around 2400MHz, it’s unlikely that it’s a laptop chip hiding behind the Compubench score.

A possible alternative is a revival of the long-forgotten mid-range Arc A580. Intel unveiled the A580 around the same time as its more powerful siblings, but has since kept quiet about the model, apparently swept on the rug. In this case, that would mean that the specification has changed since discovery, because the A580 was then identified as having 24 Xe cores – not 16.

It may also be something completely new, potentially related to information about plans on one of at to update Under the name Alchemist + which found itself at the beginning of the month. It’s also possible that it was a test of a prototype that isn’t meant to become a real product, and the future will have to tell exactly what Intel has cooked up.

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