Intel has undercut its entry-level Arc A380 with the official reveal of the beforehand leaked Arc A310. The Arc A380 wasn’t a powerhouse by any means and the brand new A310, based mostly on the identical 5nm TSMC fabbed ACM-G11 GPU, presents solely six Xe cores (versus A380’s eight), and 50% much less VRAM (4GB versus 6GB) on a narrower 64-bit bus. From what we now have seen in leaks and spills main as much as as we speak, the Intel Arc A310 will likely be principally bought to folks who solely have the necessity for fundamental GPU acceleration, and maybe solely have room for a low profile graphics card design that doesn’t require further energy connectors. It’s most likely protected to say that the A310 will not make it on to our checklist of finest GPUs for gaming in 2022.
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When a graphics card goes official there’s usually a flurry of companion press releases and product pages uploaded. On the time of writing the Arc A310 appears to be like just a little uncared for within the partner-love stakes, maybe because of its unglamorous low-end nature. Both that, or the Intel product specs releases have taken companions without warning. Nonetheless, we now have the official specs, so let’s plug them into our comparability desk:
Intel Arc Alchemist Specs
|
Arc A770 |
Arc A750 |
Arc A580 |
Arc A380 |
Arc A310 |
|
|
Structure |
ACM-G10 |
ACM-G10 |
ACM-G10 |
ACM-G11 |
ACM-G11 |
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Course of Know-how |
TSMC N6 |
TSMC N6 |
TSMC N6 |
TSMC N6 |
TSMC N6 |
|
Transistors (Billion) |
21.7 |
21.7 |
21.7 |
7.2 |
7.2 |
|
Die dimension (mm^2) |
406 |
406 |
406 |
157 |
157 |
|
Xe-Cores |
32 |
28 |
24 |
8 |
6 |
|
GPU Cores (Shaders) |
4096 |
3584 |
3072 |
1024 |
768 |
|
MXM Engines |
512 |
448 |
384 |
128 |
96 |
|
RTUs |
32 |
28 |
24 |
8 |
6 |
|
Sport Clock (MHz) |
2100 |
2050 |
1700 |
2000 |
2000 |
|
VRAM Pace (Gbps) |
17.5 |
16 |
16 |
15.5 |
15.5 |
|
VRAM (GB) |
16/8 |
8 |
8 |
6 |
4 |
|
VRAM Bus Width |
256 |
256 |
256 |
96 |
64 |
|
ROPs |
128 |
128 |
128 |
32 |
|
|
TMUs |
256 |
224 |
192 |
64 |
|
|
TFLOPS FP32 (Enhance) |
17.2 |
14.7 |
10.4 |
4.1 |
|
|
TFLOPS FP16 (MXM) |
138 |
118 |
84 |
33 |
|
|
Bandwidth (GBps) |
560 |
512 |
512 |
186 |
124 |
|
PCIe Hyperlink |
x16 4.0 |
x16 4.0 |
x16 4.0 |
x8 4.0 |
x16 4.0 |
|
TBP (watts) |
225 |
225 |
150? |
75 |
75 |
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Launch Date |
Oct 12, 2022 |
Oct 12, 2022 |
Oct 2022? |
June 2022 |
Oct 2022 |
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Beginning Value |
$329 |
? |
? |
$139 |
? |
At this stage there are some oddities and / or discrepancies in Intel’s Arc 310 specs relying the place you look. On one web page the Sport Clock of this card is 2,000 MHz, on one other official Intel web site it’s 2,100 MHz. Additionally we see that it purportedly presents PCIe 4.0 x16 assist, however the A380 is restricted to x8, which might be peculiar. Lastly, Intel mentions the Arc A310 is a 75W graphics card, similar to the A380, however we reckon it might simply shave some watts off that in low-profile companion options.
Yesterday, after an eternity of “quickly,” Intel introduced that the Arc A770 graphics playing cards will grow to be out there beginning on Oct 12, priced from $329 (8GB). No point out was product of this A310, however the specs had been shared just some hours in the past. Due to momomo_us for bringing them to mild. Now we have no phrase on Arc A320 availability or pricing for now. We might additionally wish to know what is going on with the one Arc 500 card we expect this era, the Arc A580 (specs tabulated above, however not on the Intel Arc).
