The announcement and launch of the Intel Arc Alchemist series of graphics cards is arguably among the most puzzling subjects if you follow the news about it in the last few months. It was briefly unveiled for the first time at the CES 2022 event, and after its sale was delayed several times, the graphics card for this Arc Alchemist desktop class was finally unveiled, but only for the Chinese market.
The Intel Arc A380 for desktop computers has finally been launched, but for now it is limited to the Chinese market only. The graphics card comes with eight Xe cores and has 6GB of GDDR6 memory and is reportedly capable of running popular e-sports games such as League of Legends, Moonlight Blade and PUBG at Full HD resolution and refresh rates higher than 60FPS with intermediate settings without it. a lot of problems.
The graphics card is also capable of running four 4K screen displays with a refresh rate of 120Hz and together with new technologies such as Intel Xe Matrix Extensions and Xe Media Engine, is capable of editing and processing video at resolution as high as 8K without problems.
Intel says that this Arc A380 graphics card will go on sale in the Chinese market first at a price of around 1030 yuan (~ RM680), and for other markets it will arrive in the coming months.
For now, it is still unknown when Intel will launch more powerful graphics cards such as the Intel Arc A780 and so on.