Slide may reveal details of five Intel Arc laptop GPUs – Computer – News

A slide has appeared online with details of five Intel Arc GPUs for laptops. These are variants of Intel’s DG2 GPU, in different configurations and with 4GB to 16GB ram. Intel will release its Arc GPUs in the first quarter, but has itself given few details.

There are four DG2 variants on the slide, of which the simplest configuration has another two versions. The top model would have a DG2 GPU with 512 execution units are, combined with 16GB vram at a speed of 16Gbit/s. According to previous rumours the desktop variant of this GPU has to compete with Nvidia’s RTX 3070 and AMD’s RX 6700 XT. Nothing is known about the performance of the laptop variant; it could have a lower clock speed.

In addition to the top model, there are two lower-positioned variants with 384 and 256 eus and 12GB and 8GB vram respectively. Judging by the specifications, this also concerns relatively powerful laptop GPUs, which could find their way into gaming laptops.

The last two versions have 128 or 96 eu’s and have to make do with 4GB vram at 14Gbit/s. The memory bandwidth of these variants is also limited at 112GB/s. These variants presumably have to compete with Nvidia’s GeForce MX video cards. Such GPUs generally perform slightly better than the integrated GPUs of laptop processors, but do not offer much progress.

De slide is posted online by Twitter user HXL, which posts a lot of information about GPUs. It’s not clear where the slide comes from, but the data matches confirmed information about the DG2 GPU and previous rumors.