Last March, Intel presented its graphics cards for gaming laptops. So far, only a few laptops with these graphics have been seen in South Korea, in addition to having problems with the drivers. Well, it seems that China is about to launch a gaming laptop with an Intel Arc A730M.
refreshing memory, Intel has created three ranges of products for its graphics cards with a name similar to its Intel Core processors. The simplest are the Intel Arc 3, the mid-range are the Arc 5 and the high-end are the Arc 7. Precisely the Intel Arc A730M belongs to the high-end, but it is the simplest of the two graphics cards that make up the high-end .
First gaming laptop with an Intel Arc A730M
Reportedly from China, laptop manufacturer Machenike has just released its Dawn 16 laptops. It wouldn’t be a relevant release if it weren’t for the fact that they are the first to feature high-end Intel Arc Alchemist graphics.
For those who do not know the characteristics of the Intel Arc A730M graphicsLet’s remember them. Said graphic card has 24 Xe Cores and 24 Ray Tracing Units, working this graphic at a frequency of 1100 MHz. This graphic is accompanied by 12 GB GDDR6 @ 14 GHz with a bandwidth of 336 GB/s and a memory bus of 192 bit.
Of course, it will support ray tracing technologies and Intel XeSS technology. In addition, it is compatible with DirectX 12 Ultimate, AI acceleration, adaptive refresh rate and many other technologies. This graphics card also offers us the possibility of direct connection to an independent screen with good performance.
The problem with this laptop is in the graphics card drivers. Intel should have released drivers for its graphics cards almost a month ago, but they haven’t arrived yet. This is causing none of the planned games, at the moment, to run Intel XeSS.
Machenike Dawn 16, an interesting gaming laptop
As announced, this laptop will be available with two different processors. Chinese video game fans will be able to choose between the Core i7-12700H of 6 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores with a Boost frequency of up to 4.7 GHz or the Core i9-12900H of 14 P-Cores and 20 E-Cores with a Boost frequency of 5.0 GHz.
It has a good quality mechanical keyboard with individual RGB lighting per key. In addition, on the back it also has an RGB lighting system.
It has a 16-inch screen with a 2.5K resolution and a refresh rate of 165 Hz, and a 100% sRGB color range. In addition, this laptop has 16 GB of DDR5 RAM @ 4800 MHz and a 512 GB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD.
Regarding connectivity, it has two USB-A 3.2 Gen1, one USB-A 3.2 Gen2 and two USB-C 3.2 Gen2, it also has an Ethernet connector and an HDMI 2.0 port. In addition, it offers us Bluetooth 5.0 and WiFi 6 connection.
The Machenike Dawn 16 model with the Core i7-12700H processor and the Arc A730M graphics card is priced at 8,599 yuan, which in exchange is about 1,200 euros.
