The entire Intel Arc Alchemist series is made up of dedicated graphics resolutions, and these fall into different ranges, which means that the chip giant will offer perfectly tuned options to perfectly cover both the market of low-end with the standard quality market, and also the high-end market.

Obviously, this distinction means that the Intel Arc Alchemist series will offer very different performance depending on the range we focus on, but fortunately this will not affect the group of supported technologies. By this I mean that the entire Intel Arc Alchemist series will incorporate cores applied to speed up ray tracing, and with XMX entities for Accelerate AI and provide hardware support for Intel XeSS, a capable image reconstruction and upscaling technology that will compete with NVIDIA's DLSS.

Intel Arc Alchemist for Laptops: Three Different Ranges

The new Intel Arc Alchemist series of graphics resolutions for laptops is distributed in a total of three different ranges; Intel Arc 3, which falls into what we can consider as the low range; Intel Arc 5, which is positioned in the standard quality; and also Intel Arc 7, which is located in the high range.

The first to arrive will be the Intel Arc Alchemist 3

As we have mentioned, we have three ranges, but a total of five models. The first to arrive will be the Intel Arc Alchemist 3, which will be available starting today. The Intel Arc Alchemist 5 and 7 will begin to be available early this summer, although we don't have a specific date or know yet which laptops will be the first to use them, so we'll have to wait.

Intel did not do a direct comparison of the Intel Arc Alchemist 3 with the graphics resolutions currently offered by NVIDIA and AMD, but it did provide some performance data for these versus the Intel Iris Xe, and the values we saw are quite good. The difference is significant, and beyond the fact that we are talking about cheap and low-end graphics resolutions They are capable of delivering a 1080p-60 FPS experience in several recent games., as long as we adjust the graphic quality to medium or high settings.

For content creators, the Intel Arc Alchemist 3 is also an attractive alternative. Intel knows that many content creators use a single laptop to unify work and leisure, and for this reason it also showed the performance that it is with the ability to provide the Intel Arc Alchemist 3 in multiple professional applications, such as Handbrake and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Key Technologies and Insights from Intel Arc Alchemist

Intel Arc Alchemist graphics resolutions use the innovative Xe HPG architecture, initials for "High Performance Graphics", which means that they are aimed at gamers and content creators. Each Xe block includes a total of 128 shaders or FP32 cores, as a unit to speed up ray tracing and XMX matrices, which are experts in speeding up AI (artificial intelligence)-related tasks and are essential to enjoy Intel XeSS hardware-level support.

Intel XeSS technology generated good experiences in the first demos that the chip giant showed. We understand that, initially, it will be available in about twenty games, but it will later be expanded to other titles. Intel has taken advantage of this event to once again emphasize that it will be an open and easy-to-implement technology.

Each and every Intel Arc Alchemist resolution offers full hardware acceleration of the AV1 codec, has full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate, and uses Intel Deep Link technology, which enables Perfectly coordinated performance between the CPU and GPU. Both distribute consumption, and this is balanced in a capable manner depending on the workload. In this way, when a load is more intense at the CPU level, it is allowed to consume more, and vice versa. Without further ado, we will see the information about each model.

Intel Arc Alchemist A350M

• 6 Xe cores.
• 768 shaders.
• 6 cores for ray tracing.
• GPU at 1,150 MHz.
• 4GB GDDR6.
• 64-bit collective.
• TGP: 25-35 watts.

Intel Arc Alchemist A370M

• 8 Xe cores.
• 1,024 shaders.
• 8 cores for ray tracing.
• GPU at 1,550 MHz.
• 4GB GDDR6.
• 64-bit bus.
• TGP: 35-50 watts.

Intel Arc Alchemist A550M

• 16 Xe cores.
• 2,048 shaders.
• 16 cores for ray tracing.
• GPU at 900 MHz.
• 8GB GDDR6.
• 128-bit bus.
• TGP: 60-80 watts.

Intel Arc Alchemist A730M

• 24 Xe cores.
• 3,072 shaders.
• 24 cores for ray tracing.
• GPU at 1,000 MHz.
• 12GB GDDR6.
• 192-bit bus.
• TGP: 80-120 watts.

Intel Arc Alchemist A770M

• 32 Xe cores.
• 4,096 shaders.
• 32 cores for ray tracing.
• GPU at 1,650 MHz.
• 16GB GDDR6.
• 256-bit collective.
• TGP: 120-150 watts.

Final Notes: Intel has saved a little surprise for the end of the event

In the presentation video of the Intel Arc Alchemist for laptops, the chip giant left a small surprise for the end: the design that its Limited Edition Intel Arc Graphics Card, and you can see it in the attached image. The cooling system has a part of a radiator and 2 fans, which gives us a fairly common double slot format.

Intel has taken great care in the design, and has created a very attractive graphics solution, although we are not sure if this design will be used in the standard edition. So that you can see it in more detail, I also leave you the official video. It will be available Since this summer, but we do not understand at what price or with what level of availability.