Intel’s first Arc desktop graphics cards are still scheduled to appear in Q2, but the new products will only be available in China for the time being. The company plans to roll out the full lineup globally by the end of the summer.
Intel actually wanted to launch the first Arc desktop graphics cards in the second quarter and by the end of June at the latest. According to a recent blog post by the company, this plan will remain in place, but apparently there will only be regional availability at times instead of a global release.
Arc flagship only in Q3
According to Lisa Pearce, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Visual Compute Group, only the desktop graphics cards from Intel’s Arc-A3 series will appear first. On top of that, these should not be launched directly worldwide, but initially only in China. Only after the release there does the company want to offer the new Arc graphics cards worldwide. Unfortunately, no specific period of time was given for this step.
According to Pearce, the faster Arc A5 and Arc A7 graphics cards will follow later in the summer – i.e. in the third quarter. A global release is planned directly here, so that the A3 models should appear worldwide before that. However, the quantities are questionable here: Intel concedes, at least with the mobile GPUs that are already available, that there will be delays due to supply chain problems and software problems. This, in turn, should have an impact on Intel’s market success, because AMD and Nvidia want to present their new RX 7000 and RTX 4000 graphics cards by the end of the year at the latest and thus dig up the market for the new Arc models.
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At the end of the blog post, Pearce also addresses a recently missed window of opportunity. Intel actually wanted to release a driver update by the end of April that would enable benchmark optimizations to be deactivated. Here, too, there is now an explanation: Intel is now planning to offer a more detailed option. A future driver should make it possible to deactivate the optimizations not only completely, but individually. However, additional development time is said to be required for this, so that the new release date of the driver will only be announced in the coming weeks.
Source: intel via Videocardz
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