Intel delays its Arc desktop graphics cards

(Pocket-lint) - At its annual Investor Assembly this week, Intel unveiled the roadmap for its upcoming Arc gaming GPUs.

Intel beforehand introduced that we might first see the GPUs in Intel laptops from OEM companions in Q1 2022.

Whereas this seems to be the case nonetheless, desktop players can have longer to attend.

The roadmap means that Intel desktop graphics playing cards will ship in Q2, with workstation GPUs following in Q3.

So far as efficiency, Intel says its first technology of Alchemist GPUs will assist DirectX 12 Final, mesh shading, variable-rate shading and, importantly, hardware-based ray tracing.

Intel additionally guarantees AI-driven tremendous sampling tech, permitting customers to squeeze each final body of efficiency from their hardware.

Sound good? Intel thinks so, and it hopes to ship greater than 4 million desktop graphics playing cards this 12 months.

Behind the scenes, Intel has already begun engaged on its second and third generations of GPUs.

Codenamed Celestial, the third technology sounds significantly thrilling as it is going to be focused on the "ultra-enthusiast section."

One other space Intel has been engaged on is ominously titled Venture Endgame.

It is a service enabling folks to entry its Arc GPUs by way of the cloud and it guarantees "an always-accessible, low-latency computing expertise."

There aren't many particulars surrounding Venture Endgame simply but, however Intel intends to make it out there later this 12 months.

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