Intel’s latest discrete Arc series GPUs have been providing stiff competition to the big players in the GPU market, i.e., AMD’s Radeon series lineup and Nvidia’s RTX series.
Now, Intel has added two new Intel Arc Pro cards to the Arc series lineup, namely the Arc Pro A60 and the A60M mobile, built atop the Xe-HPG Alchemist architecture. These cards will feature the ACM-G12 GPU.
Introducing Intel Arc Pro A60 and Pro A60M graphics.
— Intel News (@intelnews) June 6, 2023
The new GPUs are targeted for professional workstations users with up to 12GB of video memory and support for four displays with high dynamic range and Dolby Vision support. https://t.co/xWWgQPFyL4
The Arc Pro A60 and A60M come loaded with 16 Xe Cores, 256 Shading Units, and 2048 Floating Point Units. It has 12GB of GDDR6 memory spread over a 192-bit interface.
This sees a 100% improvement over the previous gen Arc Pro P50 which had 8 Xe Cores only. It also had only 8 GB of GDDR6 memory.
The mobile variant of the same, i.e., the Arc Pro A60M will come with a lower 8GB memory on a 128-bit. The TGP for the desktop version is 130W, higher than the mobile variant’s 95W.
The desktop and the mobile variant feature 16 PCIe 4.0 lanes, again, a 100% improvement over the previous generation.
The USP of the Pro A60 is its small form factor. This makes it very consumer friendly, as it comes with a single slot and Intel’s usual blower design.
This means that buyers need not worry about heat dissipation despite it being small in size. The ventilation vents are at the top and bottom.
Players with an eye for the aesthetic will find this GPU highly lucrative as it has a matte black finish and has the Intel Arc branding at the top.
The icing on the cake is the competitive pricing of USD 175 for the Arc Pro A60. This can be considered cheap in today’s GPU market, given that it has 12GB of memory.
The official blog also shared the following comparative improvements:
- Twice the memory bandwidth at 384 gigabytes per second
- Twice the dedicated AI Xe Matrix Extensions(XMX) engines with 256
- Twice the number of Ray Tracing Units at 16
Intel also mentioned that these Arc Pro A60 GPUs would feature full media encode and decode support, including AV1. They also assured consumers of quarterly driver releases for performance optimizations.
The Arc A60 for workstation desktops will be available in the coming weeks, while the A60M will be available to OEM manufacturers in the coming months. Also available with OEM partners like Dell, Lenovo, and HP is Intel’s Arc Pro A40 GPU, set for a 2023 Q3 release.
This GPU will force Intel’s competitors to reconsider their pricing. This will have a positive impact on the over-inflated GPU market, thanks to Nvidia. For Intel, this is one step towards the future, bringing competitive products at competitive prices.
About Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley. It is the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturer on the basis of revenue, and is the developer of the x86 series of microprocessors – the processors found in most personal computers (PCs).
Incorporated in Delaware, Intel ranked No. 46 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
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