Intel has unveiled its first notebook graphics cards under the Arc brand.
The company released two entry-level models of the Arc 3 series: the A350M with six cores and the A370M with eight cores. Both support DirectX 12 and have dedicated ray tracing cores.
For gaming notebooks, Intel has developed separate series of graphics cards: the Arc 5 and Arc 7. They will come out this summer. The top-end one offers 32 Xe cores and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory.
All Arc graphics cards are more powerful than the integrated Intel Iris Xe graphics. But how they behave compared to competitors is unknown.
Intel has not provided any tests comparing the Arc with Nvidia, AMD and Apple graphics.
The company said that all of its graphics cards will stand out from the competition with innovative features. For example, support for AV1 hardware video acceleration, as well as XeSS system based on artificial intelligence to increase the resolution of games.
The first laptop to offer Arc 3 as an option was the Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro. In the near future, Intel discrete graphics will appear in laptops from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and MSI. All devices with Arc will cost from $899.
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