Intel shows a mysterious Arc Alchemist card with three PCIe connectors

Intel shows a mysterious Arc Alchemist card with three PCIe connectors

During a live broadcast on HotHardware, Intel graphics fellow Tom Petersen showed a desktop graphics card from the Arc Alchemist range equipped with three 8-pin PCIe power connectors. This indicates that the product presented very briefly is capable of using up to 450W of power, but this does not mean that even the final version of this card will need a lot of energy.



Photo Credit : Intel Indeed, it is very likely that it is simply a prototype and that the three connectors are only present to carry out tests and take full advantage of the power of the GPU. If we take as a reference the products currently on the market, those equipped with three PCIe connectors are very capable and consequently generate a lot of heat that must subsequently be dissipated by an adequate system, often very bulky. However, the board Petersen showed did not seem to have a bulky cooling solution at all, but in seconds it is almost impossible to glimpse many details.




Photo Credit: HotHardware While waiting to get their hands on the first laptops with dedicated Arc A370M GPU, AMD has already got its hands on by publishing a slide in which it compares its Radeon RX 6500M with the Intel chip . Find more details in our previous dedicated news.