New leaks regarding the rumored RTX 4060 Ti have left many PC gaming enthusiasts scratching their heads. Not only does the GPU sound pretty unimpressive so far, but it also shows Nvidia’s commitment to one strange choice — the 12-pin power connector. Y…
Intel Arc Alchemist, also known as Intel’s first serious venture into discrete graphics for gamers, is finally here. While the GPUs can’t hope to compete with some of AMD’s and Nvidia’s best graphics cards, they can stand their own ground in the midran…
I’ve been excited for Intel’s Arc Alchemist GPUs — the first discrete gaming graphics cards Intel has ever released. But that hype has quickly faded over the last few months, as reports of subpar performance, broken drivers, and a pile of delays have p…
An overclocker managed to push the limits of the entry-level Arc A380 GPU to reach a frequency of 3.1GHz. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that this is the kind of result most users can expect to achieve.
The process of overclocking the Arc graphics ca…
An upcoming Intel Arc GPU just made an appearance, and it’s one we haven’t seen much of before — the Arc A580.
Meant to bridge the gap between the Arc A380 and the A750, the graphics card has received little coverage thus far. Now, we know more about i…
Today marks a huge step in the history of Intel Arc — the first discrete Arc GPU is now available for backorder. The entry-level Arc A380 showed up on Newegg, priced well below similar offerings from Nvidia and AMD.
The version of the card that appeare…
Intel is now offering alternate prizes to the winners of its Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt, and although this might seem completely unrelated, it actually gives us a clue about the pricing of Arc Alchemist GPUs.
The winners were given the chance to pick one of…
Intel has now officially dropped native hardware support for DirectX 9, and this applies to both integrated Xe graphics on Alder Lake CPUs and discrete Arc Alchemist GPUs.
This doesn’t mean that Intel won’t offer access to DX9. Instead, DirectX 9 will …
Intel has three new graphics cards coming up, but they don’t include the gaming Arc Alchemist that you probably had in mind. The company has just announced the Intel Arc Pro A-series, a new discrete graphics card line made for professionals.
Announced …
Intel has just shared a video update regarding the current state of gameplay on its Arc Alchemist GPUs. In a previous video, it was made clear that Intel’s cards may struggle with games that aren’t running on DirectX 12.
The video makes it clear that …
This is one piece of hardware most of us would never have expected to see — a liquid cooler for the Intel Arc Alchemist. More precisely, the water block was made for the one and only custom version of the graphics card that’s currently available, the G…
Intel has just released another video promoting the Arc Alchemist graphics card lineup, or more precisely, the Arc A750. Referred to as “limited edition,” the card was able to hit high frame rates in Death Stranding at both 4K and 1440p.
The compa…
Today marks yet another round of bad news for Intel Arc Alchemist, this time pertaining to the Arc A380, which is the first discrete GPU for desktops that Intel had released. Upon announcing the card, Intel compared it to the budget AMD Radeon RX 6400,…
The past few days have not been great for Intel Arc Alchemist, at least not where benchmarks are concerned. Intel’s laptop A730M GPU was compared to Nvidia’s mobile GeForce RTX 3060, both found in very similar systems.
The results, to put it mildly, ar…