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Intel's first desktop Arc Alchemist GPU, the A380, has been available in China for a while now, but had not launched elsewhere. That is finally starting to change, with the ASRock Arc A380 Challenger ITX graphics card set to arrive in the US starting this month.  Newegg recently began listing …

Intel appears to be having trouble with DX9 on its new, modern GPUs. As a result, Intel is changing things up and will drop DirectX 9 support on Arc and Xe GPUs, and will instead use an open-source mapping layer to emulate DX9 using DX12. 

A few weeks ago, Intel shared the first gaming benchmark results for the Arc A750 graphics card. At the time, we only had performance comparisons between the A750 and RTX 3060 in five games, but now, Intel has benchmarked almost 50 titles and released the results today. 

It is no secret that Intel's Arc Alchemist GPU rollout hasn't quite gone to plan. The few GPUs to release so far have limited availability, and the most promising desktop graphics cards have yet to launch at all. Still, Intel is hoping to turn things around soon.  This week, Intel …

Intel's GPU rollout continues this week with the launch of the Arc Pro A-series. There are three SKUs to begin with - Intel Arc Pro A40 and A50 desktop graphics cards, and an Arc Pro A30M GPU for laptops. 

MSI has just introduced its first Arc Alchemist graphics card, making it the latest addition to Intel's AIB partner list. Like most other Arc A380 desktop graphics cards, MSI's A380 is only available in China at the moment, and is only shipping inside of select pre-built PCs. Aside from the …

It's hard to ignore the fact that Intel's Arc Alchemist GPU rollout has been going very slowly. For now, only the entry-level A380 desktop GPU has launched, and only in select regions. The more capable A750 and A770 GPUs are still due ‘this summer', but according to a report this …

Intel is continuing to ramp up its marketing efforts for Intel Arc. Earlier this week, Intel uploading a new video discussing Arc A750 GPU benchmarks and performance versus the RTX 3060. Now, in a new video Intel continues to keep expectations in check for Arc, with a discussion around graphics …

A few weeks ago, Intel posted a video showing the first Arc Alchemist A750 graphics card benchmarks. For reasons unknown to us, that video has since been privatised and a new video has been posted in its place. In the new video, we see different gameplay footage compared to the …

The first Intel Arc Alchemist desktop graphics card, the A380, can now be paired with a water block. Bykski has created the first GPU water block for the Gunnir Arc A380 Photon 6G OC graphics card.  The Bykski I-GNA380-X GPU block (via @Haze2K1) is only officially compatible with Gunnir's A380 …

Compared to Alder Lake CPUs, the Raptor Lake chips are expected to bring a decent bump in clock speeds, with the highest clock supposedly coming in at 5.5GHz. However, it seems you'll be able to squeeze a bit more out of them through overclocking, with reports claiming we'll see 6GHz …

During Intel's Q2 earnings call, Pat Gelsinger, the company's CEO, announced plans to shut down the Optane memory business. According to Gelsinger, part of the reason is an industry-shift to other technologies, which have become more popular than Optane. . According to Tom's Hardware, Intel will have to pay $559 million …

It seems the 13th Gen Core mobile chips will come out sooner than we thought. During an earnings call this week, the company confirmed plans to launch Raptor Lake for both mobile and desktop platforms this year, although desktop parts will still arrive first.  During Intel's Q2 earnings call, CEO, …

A reviewer in China has been building up a small collection of early Raptor Lake processor samples. We’ve already seen the 13900K tested in benchmarks and now, the same reviewer has returned with early performance numbers for Intel’s upcoming Core i5-13600K and Core i7-13700K processors. Chinese reviewer Extreme Player (via …

Intel’s latest graphics driver update brings important changes to GPU support. This week, it was confirmed that Intel’s 6th Gen, 7th Gen, 8th Gen, 9th Gen and 10th Gen integrated graphics products will be moved on from active support to legacy support.  Moving on to legacy support doesn’t mean zero …

Intel shares have taken a significant dip this week following the company's quarterly earnings report. Intel missed revenue targets last quarter and the company has also cut down its earnings predictions for the rest of the year. 

Intel Raptor Lake hasn't even been released yet, but there are already many rumours around Intel's planned Meteor Lake processors. Thanks to Microsoft logs, we seem to have confirmation on one rumour – that Meteor Lake would back new Redwood Cove and Crestmont architectures for the P-cores and E-cores.  These …

Intel's new generation of workstation Xeon processors are almost here. The Sapphire Rapids CPU line-up has now leaked, as well as specifications, giving us a look at core counts, clock speeds, cache and TDP.  As reported by VideoCardz, Intel's new Xeon processors will pack up to 56 cores, 112 threads, …

In the lead up to Intel's Arc desktop GPU launch, the company has been running a scavenger hunt contest to get fans involved. Intel has now revealed that Arc A770 and A750 graphics cards will be sent out to some winners.  As reported by VideoCardz, Intel also details how much …

Last week, a leaked benchmark showed the upcoming Core i5-13600K nearing Ryzen 9 5950X levels of performance. Now, a new benchmark entry gives us results for the Core i7-13700K, giving us an early look at it up against AMD's flagship.  The Intel Core i7-13700K Geekbench entry, shared by Benchleaks, shows …

Intel's open-source Vulkan graphics drivers for Arc Alchemist GPUs just brought in a pretty major upgrade. It turns out a small coding error was leading to a massive reduction in ray-tracing performance. With the code fixed, ray tracing performance has reportedly improved by up to 100x...

A newly found Core i5-13600K benchmark entry in Geekbench shows some promising results. As per the scores, the upcoming mid-range processors from Intel will contend with the Ryzen 9 5950X in multi-core workloads.

Minisforum has been pretty active recently, having launched a couple of mini PC models already this year. The latest mini PCs are a cut above the rest though, featuring Intel Tiger Lake processors, paired with Nvidia RTX 30 series GPUs, all in an incredibly slim package.  There will be two …

Miners have begun getting their hands on Intel's upcoming Arc desktop graphics cards. However, it would seem that so far, no Windows-based mining software supports Intel's GPUs, which could dissuade mining farms from buying these up at launch.  Crypto miner and YouTuber DJMines tried to mine using a Intel Arc …

Recently, we've seen the first pre-production sample benchmarks for the Intel Core i9-13900K. Now, it seems the Core i5-13600K is also doing the rounds, but the upcoming mid-range processor delivered mixed results.  Bilibili user ECSM (via VideoCardz) was able to obtain an Intel Core i5-13600K pre-production sample (ES3) but didn't …

AIDA64 is used by enthusiasts and professionals alike to benchmark and monitor hardware. Usually a little while before major hardware launches, we'll see the software updated with support for upcoming CPUs and GPUs. With the latest AIDA64 Extreme update, we got exactly that, with support for Zen 4 CPUs being …

The same reviewer that brought us the performance figures of the Intel Core i9-13900K pre-production sample has now shared another analysis showing its gaming performance. While the upcoming 13th Gen processor doesn't make huge gains in average frame rates, it does make a noticeable difference to the minimum frame rate …

Recently, there have been rumours that Intel has a more powerful Arc GPU than the A770. Supposedly, the Arc A780 would the same GPU as the A770, but with higher clock speeds and 16GB of memory. While that would be nice, Intel has shot down the rumour, claiming that such …

An apparent presentation leak may have revealed Intel's pricing strategy for its upcoming A-series desktop graphics cards. So far, it looks like Intel's flagship A770 GPU will compete with the RTX 3060 Ti or RX 6650 XT in terms of price, coming in at under $400. 

Update – 04/08/22: Intel has since privatised the original video released a few weeks ago, replacing it with a new Arc A750 performance showcase with a few tweaks. You can find our story on the updated video, HERE.  (Original story – 15/07/22): Intel is finally starting to show off its …