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Chinese graphics card manufacturer Gunnir (opens in new tab) has announced the Arc A380 Photon 6GB OC, one of the first custom graphics cards based on Intel's Arc Alchemist family. However, the Arc A380 has a tough road ahead as Intel's offering has to compete with the best graphics cards on the market.The Arc A380 is Intel's entry-level graphics card that utilizes the chipmaker's Xe-HPG architecture and wields the ACM-G11 silicon. TSMC produces the ACM-G11 for Intel on the foundry's 6nm process node. The Arc A380 has…

A pre-order product page provides details of a desktop PC that features an Intel Arc A380 graphics card. The majorly MSI-brand-based system comes packing an "Intel Arc A380 6G OC" discrete graphics card, according to this JD.com listing (opens in new tab) in China, as spotted (opens in new tab) by Evan Stenger.Pondering over the product page, this pre-order pre-built PC seems entirely configurable. For example, the listing indicates that customers can choose an Intel Core i3-12100F to Core i7-12700KF, with motherboards…

The past few days have not been great for Intel Arc Alchemist, at least not where benchmarks are concerned. Intel’s laptop A730M GPU was compared to Nvidia’s mobile GeForce RTX 3060, both found in very similar systems. The results, to put it mildly, are not in Intel’s favor. Nvidia’s RTX 3060M is a clear winner yet again, proving to be up to 62% faster than the Intel Arc A730M. Is it time to start worrying about the future of Intel’s first discrete GPU line? Golden Pig Upgrade Once again, the news comes from a Weibo…

Owners of Intel Arc A730M, A370M, and A350M graphics chips — anyone? — now have an actual driver (opens in new tab) that supports the fledgling GPUs. Limited to mobile chips (opens in new tab) for now, laptops featuring Intel’s latest foray into graphics processing are starting to appear (desktop models have yet to breathe the clean air of freedom).(Image credit: Intel)The big news with the driver — apart from its existence — is that it supports Sniper Elite 5, Rebellion’s Nazi-testicle-shooting simulator that launched…

Intel Arc A7-powered laptops won't be available in the U.S. market until late summer. But while we wait, Weibo user "Golden Pig Upgrade" has put the Arc A730M through its paces (opens in new tab) — and it looks like Intel's graphics card can't keep up with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile.According to the review, the user's Arc A730M and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile laptops use the same 14-core Core i7-12700 (Alder Lake-H) processor, so both devices are on an equal playing field. With mobile Ampere, Nvidia gave laptop vendors…

The brand-new Intel Arc Alchemist A730M graphics card has recently been tested in synthetic benchmarks as well as in real-world gaming tests. The GPU is still not widely available, so these are some of the first user tests that have been leaked to the public. While Intel Arc A730M did well in benchmarks, its gaming capabilities leave a lot to be desired, revealing sub-par performance. Golden Pig Upgrade (Weibo) Both the synthetic and the gaming tests come from the same source — a leaker on Weibo, a Chinese social…

A Weibo user (opens in new tab) who goes by the alias "Golden Pig Upgrade" has delighted us with the first gaming benchmarks (via HXL (opens in new tab)) for Intel's Arc A730M mobile graphics card. He previously provided a couple of synthetic benchmarks, but there's nothing like real-world performance to evaluate the Arc A730M's gaming capability.Once again, the reviewer used the same Machenike Dawn Discovery Edition 2022 gaming laptop that brings together the Core i7-12700H (Alder Lake-H) processor, the Arc A730M, and…

Sonos is no stranger to high-quality audio. Ever since its first speakers, the company has been known as a great option for those who want solid audio quality at an affordable price. That can be seen in its latest soundbar, the Sonos Ray, which comes at $279. But what if you have more money to spend and want a higher-quality experience? Sonos has something for you too — in the form of the Sonos Arc. The Sonos Arc is its highest-end soundbar, above both the Sonos Ray and Sonos Beam. It’s not cheap, at $899 for the…

A new laptop packing Intel's Arc Alchemist A730M mobile GPU was tested in 3DMark Time Spy, as seen in this Weibo post (opens in new tab). The notebook, called the Mechanic Dawn Exploration Edition 2022 (opens in new tab), features an Alder Lake i7-12700H CPU and is already on sale. The Time Spy result of 10,107 puts the A730M laptop into competition with RTX 3060-equipped laptops (opens in new tab) in both performance and value.The A730M comes from the upper end of Intel's mobile A-series lineup, sitting one step down…

Intel's Arc A370M-powered laptops are becoming available outside the South Korean market. Lenovo and HP (via momomo_us (opens in new tab)) have updated their online stores with preorders for the new devices.HP's Envy Laptop 16t-h000 is available in the U.S. with a starting price of $1,399.99 (opens in new tab) and an estimated shipping date of July 1. The laptop wields the latest Core i5-12500H (Alder Lake-H) processor with four P-cores and eight E-cores and the Arc A370M graphics card with 4GB of GDDR6 memory. HP also…