Competitor NVIDIA and AMD: Intel introduced the Arc brand – under it will be produced video cards for gamers

August 16 corporation Intel announced the brand Arc, under which it will produce high-performance video cards for stationary PCs, laptops and workstations.

The first generation will be based on the X microarchitecturee HPG codenamed Alchemist (previously DG2). This line will receive support for hardware ray tracing in real time, technology supersampling based on artificial intelligence, as well as DirectX 12 Ultimate.

In addition, Intel has revealed the codenames for the next generation of Arc-branded graphics cards: Battlemage, Celestial and Druid. The corporation is going to provide more details in the coming months.

Intel does not name the exact characteristics of its own solutions. In the video published by the corporation, you can see an example of the operation of the video card in several games, including Forza horizon 4, Psychonauts 2, PUBG, Metro exodus, Days gone and trilogy Crysis

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