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, affords solely six Xe cores (versus A380’s eight), and 50% much less VRAM (4GB versus 6GB) on a narrower 64-bit bus. From what now we have seen in leaks and spills main as much as right now, the Intel Arc A310 shall be largely 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 secure to say that the A310 will not make it on to our checklist of greatest GPUs for gaming in 2022.
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When a graphics card goes official there’s typically a flurry of associate press releases and product pages uploaded. On the time of writing the Arc A310 seems a little bit uncared for within the partner-love stakes, maybe as a result of its unglamorous low-end nature. Both that, or the Intel product specs releases have taken companions unexpectedly. However, 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 |
|
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 |
|
Beginning Worth |
$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 website it’s 2,100 MHz. Additionally we see that it purportedly affords PCIe 4.0 x16 assist, however the A380 is proscribed 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 may simply shave some watts off that in low-profile associate options.
Yesterday, after an eternity of “quickly,” Intel introduced that the Arc A770 graphics playing cards will turn out to be accessible beginning on Oct 12, priced from $329 (8GB). No point out was fabricated from this A310, however the specs have been shared only a few hours in the past. Due to momomo_us for bringing them to gentle. We now have no phrase on Arc A320 availability or pricing for now. We might additionally prefer to know what is occurring with the one Arc 500 card we predict this era, the Arc A580 (specs tabulated above, however not on the Intel Arc).