A possible Arc A550 desktop, which would bridge the gap between the Arc A380 and the A580. Intel’s official roadmap doesn’t mention such a card, but following all, we’re still waiting for the Arc A580.
An Intel Arc graphics card unknown to the Battalion has made an appearance in Geekbench. It is not the Arc A580, the reference promised by Intel but still absent. Indeed, while the latter has 24 Xe cores – according to the company’s own specifications – the GPU unearthed in the benchmark has 16 Xe cores. The only Intel Arc Alchemist graphics card with 16 Xe cores in existence is l’Arc A550M. The arrival of an Arc A550 desktop is therefore quite possible.
As you can see from the image on the left, which is an official Intel slide, the Arc A500 series is in principle limited to the A580. Nevertheless, a recent, right-wing, unofficial roadmap suggests the integration of two additional Arc Alchemist graphics cards ; one might correspond to our reference of the day. This assumption would actually be quite logical; there is a significant gap between l’Arc A380 and the Arc A750: the first has 8 Xe cores, the second 24. And even taking into account the Arc A580 with 24 Xe cores, there would still be a big gap between the latter and the A380. In short, on paper, in terms of range composition, an A550 would not be crazy.
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Performance of Arc Alchemist graphics cards
The software provides frequencies between 2400 and 2500 MHz for the graphics card. The scores obtained are recorded in the two tables below. One opposes the entire range, the other the hypothetical A550 to the A770. Keep in mind that CompuBench is not the ideal benchmark for comparing GPUs.
| GPU | Hearts Car | VRAM | CompuBench (mPixels/s) Vertex Connection and Merging |
| Arc A770 | 32 | 8 Go / 16 Go | 22,7 |
| Arc A750 | 28 | 8 Go | 21,6 |
| Arc A580 | 24 | 8 Go | — |
| Arc A550? | 16 | 8 Go | 14,9 |
| Arc A380 | 8 | 6 Go | 7,9 |
| Review / Graphics card | Arc A550 ? | Arc A770 | A550 (?) vs A770 |
| Level Set Segmentation – 128 | 7923,273 mVoxels/s | 21483,02 mVoxels/s | -63 % |
| Level Set Segmentation – 256 | 8235,018 mVoxels/s | 14821,874 mVoxels/s | -44 % |
| Ocean Surface Simulation | 3285,159 Iterations/s | 4457,6 Iterations/s | -26 % |
| 4457,6 Iterations/s | 132,738 mTriangles/s | 176,837 mTriangles/s | -25 % |
| Catmull-Clark Subdivision Level 5 | 283,535 mTriangles/s | 511,032 mTriangles/s | -45 % |
| Vertex Connection and Merging | 14,884 mPixels/s | 22,693 mPixels/s | -34 % |
| Subsurface Scattering | 7360,095 mSample/s | 15300,483 mSample/s | -52 % |
| Subsurface Scattering multiple view | 7691,361 mSample/s | 14431,641 mSample/s | -47 % |
| TV-L1 Optical Flow | 50,924 mPixels/s | 93,356 mPixels/s | -45 % |
Source : CompuBench via Tom’s Hardware US
