Intel will launch five different models of its new Intel Arc graphics card

It is a matter of time to see Intel GPUs, graphics cards that arrive in the midst of a component crisis and with mining through the clouds. This makes its launch one of the most anticipated of the quarter within the technology sector.

For many, this first quarter is marked by two events: the launch of the Galaxy S22 and the premiere of Intel’s dedicated graphics cards.

And although we have already talked about the Galaxy S22 today, now it is the turn of the Intel GPU, because after 20 years of fighting between AMD and NVIDIA, in this 2022 a new player arrives in the business.

The Intel Arc, which is how Intel has baptized its graphics card division, were confirmed at the end of 2021, with a launch date during the first quarter of 2022. Hence, any day is a good day for us to see them debut.

But that is in theory, since in practice we can ensure that they still have left, since nWe have not seen photos, benchmarks or other official information about it.

Or so we could assure until yesterday. Now, and as we have seen by a famous leaker and Twitter, Intel reportedly leaked a presentation slide intended for internal sales channels. In this slide you can see the different models of Intel Arc that would reach the market.

Like NVIDIA or AMD, Intel would launch models from higher to lower power to capture the market with its graphics solutions. And, as we see in the slide, in Intel they would have up to 5 models already prepared.

These models are: SKU1, SKU2, SKU3, SK4 and SK5. The first three would be desktop GPUs and the last two would be for laptops. Hence, the truly interesting ones are SKU1, SKU2, SKU3.

The most basic models of these cards are based on the Intel DG2-96EU and Intel DG2-128EU graphics chips., with 768 and 1,024 cores respectively. Its low power is reflected in the 4 GB of GDDR6 memory at 14 Gb / s that will offer a low bandwidth of 112 GB / s.

then we would have the SKU3 that would be the first desktop that would have 2,048 cores accompanied by 8 GB of GDDR6 memory at 16 Gb/s together with a 128-bit memory interface to achieve a bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

then we would have SKU2 with 3,072 cores has already reached 12 GB of GDDR6 memory at 16 Gb/s with a 192-bit memory interface that reaches 384 GB/s.

Finally we would have the top model, the SKU1 with 4,096 cores, which would come with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory at 16 Gb/s together with a 256-bit memory interface that manages to reach 512 GB/s of bandwidth.

These are just numbers, but they allow us to see Intel’s strategy regarding its graphics cards. If they manage to stand up to the entry range and mid/high range of this generation, we could speak of unmitigated success to be their first generation.