Today, we are offi­ci­al­ly laun­ching our Intel® Arc™ gra­phics fami­ly for lap­tops, com­ple­ting the Intel plat­form. The­se are the first dis­crete GPUs from our Intel Arc A‑Series gra­phics port­fo­lio for lap­tops, with our desk­top and work­sta­tion pro­ducts coming later this year. You can visit our News­room for our launch video, pro­duct details and tech­ni­cal demos, but I will sum­ma­ri­ze the high­lights of how our Intel Arc plat­form and A‑Series mobi­le GPU fami­ly will deli­ver hard­ware, soft­ware, ser­vices and – ulti­m­ate­ly – high-per­for­mance gra­phics experiences.

• New Lap­tops with Intel Arc Gra­phics: We’ve part­ne­red with top OEMs to co-engi­neer an ama­zing lin­e­up of lap­tops that fea­ture new and impro­ved gam­ing and con­tent crea­ti­on capa­bi­li­ties with Intel Arc gra­phics and 12th Gen Intel® Core™ pro­ces­sors. Many new sys­tems with Intel Arc 3 gra­phics will fea­ture the Intel Evo platform’s trade­mark respon­si­ve­ness, bat­tery life and Wi-Fi 6 con­nec­ti­vi­ty in thin-and-light form fac­tors. Lap­tops with Intel Arc 3 gra­phics offer enhan­ced 1080p gam­ing and advan­ced con­tent crea­ti­on, and tho­se with Intel Arc 5 and Intel Arc 7 gra­phics will offer the same cut­ting-edge, con­tent-crea­ti­on capa­bi­li­ties cou­pled with increased gra­phics and com­pu­ting per­for­mance. The first lap­tops with Intel Arc 3 GPUs are available to pre­or­der now and will be fol­lo­wed by the more powerful designs with Intel Arc 5 and Intel Arc 7 gra­phics in ear­ly summer.

• Unleas­hing the Lap­top Plat­form: The foun­da­ti­on of pro­ducts with Intel Arc A‑Series GPUs and our plat­form-level approach to gra­phics inno­va­ti­on starts with our new X^e High Per­for­mance Gra­phics micro­ar­chi­tec­tu­re (X^e HPG), which is engi­nee­red for gamers and crea­tors. We have packed a ton of gre­at tech­no­lo­gy into X^e HPG, inclu­ding powerful X^e-cores with Intel XMX AI engi­nes, a gra­phics pipe­line opti­mi­zed for DirectX 12 Ulti­ma­te with hard­ware acce­le­ra­ti­on for ray tra­cing, the X^e Media Engi­ne tun­ed to acce­le­ra­te exis­ting and future crea­tor workloads and the X^e Dis­play Engi­ne rea­dy for Dis­play­Po­rt 2.0 UHBR10. 
  • Intel X^e Matrix Exten­si­ons (XMX) AI engi­nes pro­vi­de more com­pu­te capa­bi­li­ty for acce­le­ra­ting AI workloads. The­se AI engi­nes have 16 times the com­pu­te to com­ple­te AI infe­ren­cing ope­ra­ti­ons when com­pared to tra­di­tio­nal GPU vec­tor units, which can increase per­for­mance in pro­duc­ti­vi­ty, gam­ing and crea­tor applications.
  • X^e Super Sam­pling (X^eSS) is our solu­ti­on that lever­a­ges the power of Intel Arc gra­phics’ XMX AI-engi­nes to deli­ver high-per­for­mance, AI-acce­le­ra­ted ups­ca­ling. X^eSS is a novel ups­ca­ling tech­no­lo­gy that uses deep lear­ning to syn­the­si­ze images that are very clo­se to the qua­li­ty of nati­ve high-res ren­de­ring. X^eSS is coming in the sum­mer and will be sup­port­ed on all pro­ducts with Arc A‑Series graphics.
  • Intel Arc A‑Series GPUs are the first in the indus­try to offer full AV1 hard­ware acce­le­ra­ti­on, inclu­ding both encode and decode, deli­ve­ring fas­ter video encode and hig­her qua­li­ty strea­ming while con­sum­ing the same inter­net band­width. We’ve work­ed with indus­try part­ners to ensu­re that AV1 sup­port is available today in many of the most popu­lar media appli­ca­ti­ons, with broa­der adop­ti­on expec­ted this year. The AV1 codec will be a game chan­ger for the future of video enco­ding and streaming.
  • We’ve inte­gra­ted Intel® Deep Link tech­no­lo­gies to enable Intel Arc GPUs to work seam­less­ly with Intel CPUs and inte­gra­ted gra­phics for a per­for­mance impro­ve­ment across gam­ing, crea­ting and strea­ming workloads. Intel Deep Link enables dyna­mic power sha­ring, intel­li­gent­ly dis­tri­bu­ting power across the plat­form to increase appli­ca­ti­on per­for­mance up to 30% in crea­ti­on and com­pu­te-inten­si­ve appli­ca­ti­ons.¹ With Hyper Encode and Hyper Com­pu­te, Deep Link allows mul­ti-engi­ne acce­le­ra­ti­on in trans­co­ding and AI tasks. More details are available in our pro­duct fact sheet.

• Com­mu­ni­ty Expe­ri­en­ces: Our Intel Arc gra­phics are more than ano­ther pie­ce of hard­ware in your PC. They are your por­tal to play and crea­te. We have a dedi­ca­ted team focu­sed on deli­ve­ring Day 0 game-rea­dy dri­vers, which you’ll be able to track in our new Intel® Arc Con­trol inter­face, an all-in-one hub that puts you in full con­trol of the gam­ing expe­ri­ence. Intel Arc Con­trol includes cus­tom per­for­mance pro­files, built-in strea­ming, a vir­tu­al came­ra, inte­gra­ted Game ON dri­ver down­loa­ding, auto­ma­tic game cap­tu­re, and more. The app sup­ports Intel® Iris X ^e gra­phics and Intel Arc GPUs for a uni­fied soft­ware expe­ri­ence. By working with our deve­lo­per part­ners, we are making a gro­wing port­fo­lio of Intel-opti­mi­zed games and mul­ti­me­dia appli­ca­ti­ons available to dis­crete gra­phics cus­to­mers through spe­cial launch bund­les. Bund­les will vary based on the sys­tem and the regi­on, but the first of the­se gamer and crea­tor bund­les is rol­ling out in April with the launch of our A‑Series mobi­le pro­ducts. Our goal is to deli­ver some­thing new and fun to the com­mu­ni­ty every day of the year. We invi­te you to con­nect with us and join the con­ver­sa­ti­on on our Intel Insi­ders discord.

Loo­king Ahead 

Today marks the first step in our jour­ney. You’ll see Intel Arc gra­phics con­ti­nue to impro­ve and evol­ve, with new fea­tures and an ever-expan­ding eco­sys­tem coming throug­hout the year. And for desk­top enthu­si­asts, our Intel Arc gra­phics add-in-cards will be coming this sum­mer. ² 

We are exci­ted, and we hope you are too. It’s going to be a big year for Intel Arc graphics. 

Roger Chand­ler is vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger of Gra­phics and Gam­ing Team at Intel Corporation. 

¹Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex​ (graphics and accelerators). Results may vary. 

² All product plans and roadmaps are subject to change without notice.