Intel Arc Pro A60 and A60M Powered By New ACM-G12 Chip Arrive Targeting Workstations
Well, that third chip seems to have finally made its debut, but not in a standard Arc gaming GPU. Instead, Intel has just launched the Arc Pro A60 and A60M, and from looking at the specifications it would be easy to assume that these are severely cut-down ACM-G10 parts. In fact, that's what your author assumed at first until he spotted a curious detail: the picture that accompanied this announcement.
What does that mean for the final performance of these parts? Well, probably nothing too shocking, really. As far as we know, ACM-G12 is based on the exact same Arc Alchemist architecture that powers all of the extant Arc GPUs. However, the Arc Pro A60 and A60M are the biggest Arc Pro GPUs to date, and an early Compubench leak placed the A60 at about twice the speed of the A50—exactly what you'd expect considering the specifications.
The Arc Pro A60 is a fairly beefy GPU despite its single-slot blower design, with peak single-precision compute performance of around 10 TFLOPs and 384 GB/sec of memory bandwidth. Intel marks the Arc Pro A60 down for a total board power of 130W, meaning it likely requires a single six-pin power connector. It comes with 12GB of GDDR6 memory, which should make it well-suited to heavyweight pro applications like Autodesk's suite, Dassault's Solidworks, and Siemens NX.
Intel didn't offer pricing on the new GPUs because they won't be available at retail, but instead offered "in the coming weeks" as part of workstation systems from Intel's partners, like HP, Dell, and Lenovo. However, respected fellow Mr. Schilling over at HardwareLuxx seems to have a tip that indicates that the desktop card will be priced at $175. Not bad for a 12GB professional-oriented GPU.
