While AMD and NVIDIA have primarily duked it out in the enthusiast discrete graphics card market for well over a decade,
Intel is looking to kick the door and join the party. Intel announced that its
first-generation Alchemist graphics cards would debut in Q1 2022 with compelling performance and modern technologies like real-time ray tracing, variable-rate shading, and AI-based upscaling for games.
With this in mind, we will have a Q&A session with Intel this week to dig deeper into what makes Arc tick. We'll have Martyn Stroeve, Intel Senior Director Graphics Product Marketing, and Scott Wasson, Senior Manager Graphics Tech Analysis on hand to give us the low-down.
It should be an exciting discussion as we delve into topics like Xe Matrix Extensions (XMX) and Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) support, which are crucial in making the first Arc-branded cards competitive in the hot discrete graphics market.
So, be sure to join us this Wednesday (9/1/2021) at 5:30 pm ET for a front-row seat to all things involving Intel Arc.
Brandon Hill
Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join
AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form
DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.
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