Intel Arc versus Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon from Q1 2022 with Alchemist

They will be called Intel Arc the GPUdesktops and notebooks with which the US semiconductor giant will face the Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon solutions starting from the first quarter of 2022.

“The Arc brand will include hardware, software and services, and will feature multiple generations of products,” Intel specifies. The first generation to have this brand based on microarchitecture HPG and has a code name Alchemist (formerly DG2). Intel also revealed the code names for future generations of the Arc brand: Battlemage, Celestial e Druid.

“Today a pivotal moment for the path we started a few years ago in the field of graphics. The launch of the Intel Arc brand and the announcement of future generations of hardware shows the Intel’s deep and ongoing commitment to gamers and content creators around the world. Our teams are doing an incredible job to ensure that when these products are available next year, Intel can deliver first-rate, flawless experiences, “said Roger Chandler, Intel vice president and general manager for Client Graphics. Products and Solutions.

Architecture Intel Xe HPG represents the convergence of the Xe LP, HP and HPC microarchitectures, and for this reason it will combine scalability, efficiency and advanced functionality. Alchemist, in particular, will offer full support for hardware-based ray tracing rendering and AI-controlled supersampling (a technology that will remember DLSS and FSR, ed), as well as offering full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate “.

As written at the beginning, Alchemist products will be available in the first quarter of 2022. For more details, visit Intel.com/Arc. Further specifications will be announced later this year.