For years, Intel has tried to compete with AMD and NVIDIA in the graphics market with almost no success. A few years ago they signed Raja Koduri, who was behind the AMD Vega and RDNA architectures, among others. It seems that the signing has been positive and gaming GPUs will hit the market shortly.
First images of an Intel Arc graphics for desktop
These days have been held in Dallas, United States, the event Intel Extreme Masters. The company has taken advantage of this event to show its dedicated gaming graphics cards Arc Limited Edition. There is no data on whether this graphic card shown is a final version, a working sample or a simple mockup.
The great doubts about this graph are that it was simply displayed on a kind of pedestal. It is not mounted on a system, as would be logical, but was displayed in a showcase that was spinning Therefore, we can get little clear from this graphics card.
All images have been taken by @theBycelsRt, who has published them on his Twitter account. The photographs reveal absolutely nothing, what’s more, the video connectors are completely hidden. We can only observe a slight modification in the area where the power connectors.
It seems that finally Intel would have chosen to modify the location of the power connectors. This graphics card has two power connectors, one 8-pin and one 6-pin. As you can see, it seems that he finally didn’t use the 12 pin power connector on your new graphics cards.
We must point out that @theBycelsRt is an Intel worker and works in the Intel Arc community, according to his profile on the little bird’s social network. This means that it has not been photographed and exposed by any user.
Many doubts and few certainties
The truth is that, at this point, the doubts about Intel graphics cards are many. To date we have only seen laptops with GPU Intel Arc 3 in South Korea and little else. Theoretically, laptops with Arc 5 and Arc 7but little else we know about it.
It is not the only shadow of the company’s new graphic solutions. Weeks ago they should have released new drivers for their chips and at the moment, they are not there nor are they expected. This in turn is generating delays in the adoption and deployment of intel xess, which is a huge problem.
While the arrival of Intel gaming GPUs was interesting and exciting and was going to shake up the market, it’s turning into a disaster. But be careful, remember that the first AMD Ryzen were a disaster, with very green motherboards and compatibility problems with RAM. It is possible that these initial problems end in a great anecdote.
