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Captain_Yuri said:

Intel launches Arc Alchemist discrete GPU for laptops

https://videocardz.com/press-release/intel-launches-arc-alchemist-discrete-gpu-for-laptops

This is their low end GPUs which would go up against 3050/3050 Ti on laptops. We will see how it performs but their higher end GPUs coming out in summer really feels like it's taking too long to come out. Least Nvidia and AMD's next generation of GPUs won't be coming out until next year for laptops.

The ARC 3 will not go up against the 3050, let alone the 3050Ti. It has enough on it's plate with trying to keep up with the Ryzen 6000 APUs already and would be more comparable with the MX 450 than the GTX 3050.

The ARC 5 on the other hand looks more like a promising competitor to the 3050/Ti and the 6500M, especially with having twice as much memory at hand. I'm interested in seeing how they'll perform in the end - and if Intel will support them long enough with performance-enhancing updates, as this has been their Achilles heel in the past.

Captain_Yuri said:

Intel ARC A350M laptop GPU demonstrates GeForce GTX 1650 series performance in the first 3DMark tests

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-a350m-laptop-gpu-demonstrates-geforce-gtx-1650-series-performance-in-the-first-3dmark-tests

This is supposed to be their 3050 competitor... But it performs like a 1650???

I didn't even have to see this post to know where it's gonna end up more or less in this chart. After all, it's mostly just an Iris iGPU as a standalone chip on a discrete graphics board, and only having a 64bit memory connection will hamper it's bandwidth and thus performance even further.

It's about the performance level of a 1650Ti Max-Q, but that card was limited to 35W while the ARC A350M can go down to 25W, so maybe it was running at lower TDP, but I have my doubts. Certainly not a great showing for this GPU so far, but being better than an MX 450 is already a nice for Ultrabook users who want at least some GPU power.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 31 March 2022