Intel Arc series unveiled with the Alchemist dGPU to arrive in Q1 2022

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Intel revealed some more details of its first Arc uarch dGPUs,the Alchemist series which are arriving in Q1 2022:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16886...coming-q1-2022
https://videocardz.com/press-release...ing-early-2022
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-de...-sampling-tech

Upcoming Intel Arc graphics products are based on the Xe-HPG microarchitecture, a convergence of Intel’s Xe-LP, HP and HPC microarchitectures, that will deliver scalability and compute efficiency with advanced graphics features. Alchemist, the first generation of Intel Arc products, will feature hardware-based ray tracing and artificial intelligence-driven super sampling, and offer full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate.

Has a DLSS competitor:

Intel: AI-based Super Sampling Tech Under Development

Alongside today's announcement also comes a small mention from Intel that they will be throwing their hat into the ring for image upscaling technologies. As part of the Arc announcement, Intel has confirmed that the company is working on "artificial intelligence-driven super sampling". For the last couple of years NVIDIA and more recently AMD have been making waves with their respective DLSS and FSR technologies, and it’s fair to say that Intel doesn’t want to be left out – after all, they intend to become an equal competitor in the discrete GPU space.

Unfortunately, today’s announcement from Intel is just throwing their hat into the ring, so anyone looking for a release date or information on if Intel's in-development tech is purely spatial or spatial + temporal will be waiting a bit longer. But, for the moment, we at least have confirmation that Intel is working on their own take on the tech.

[Indrid]

Finally. Seems like Intel have been threatening a discrete gaming GPU for like twenty years now. Let's see how many they can actually get into consumer hands.