Here are the first photos of Intel Arc Alchemist

The well-known leaker and YouTuber Moore's Law Is Dead showed in a video some real photos of Intel Arc Alchemist, a GPU that Intel is expected to launch in the coming months and which, according to rumors, would enter pre-production. The one in the images could be the equivalent of the reference cards sold by AMD, in case Intel decides to market its Intel Arc solutions directly.

Credit: Moore's Law Is Dead month ago, here we find a PCB is different, confirming the fact that Arc Alchemist is based on a new version of the variant with 512 EU of DG2, equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 memory and 4096 shading units. In the photos, we see a board with black PCB and silver cover, with a dual fan cooling system. The card should have a TGP of 225W and for the power supply there are two 8 + 6 pin connections, we do not yet know if they will be replaced by the new connector that we should see equipped on the next PCIe 5.0 GPUs.

Credit: Moore's Law Is Dead According to rumors of recent months, Intel Arc Alchemist should compete with Nvidia's RTX 3070 and AMD's Radeon RX 6700, however according to some the performance could be even higher, on the level of an RTX 3070 Ti. We remind you that the card should integrate support for ray tracing and Intel XeSS technology, an alternative to DLSS and FSR developed by Intel which, given what the company recently showed, seems to be promising.

Moore's Law Is Dead leaks are not limited to Arc Alchemist: the YouTube channel also showed some renders of the desktop version of DG2 with 128 EU, also claiming to have seen the card live. Since, previously, the images shown in these rumors have always been almost identical to the actual card, there is no reason to believe that this time things will turn out differently. Recall that the entry level variant of DG2 offers 1024 shading units, 8GB of GDDR6 memory and a TDP of only 75W, which does not require additional power connectors.

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