Alleged Intel Arc Alchemist Laptop GPUs Detailed In Mobile Specs Roundup

The slide, reproduced above, appears to lay out the memory configuration of all of the laptop forms of "DG2," otherwise known as Arc Alchemist. Nothing here is a particular surprise, aside from perhaps that the lowest-end Arc Alchemist part will be even slower than Navi 24. Those two bottom-end parts, SKU4 and SKU5, are likely based on a smaller die than the higher-end parts, which are expected to use a form, either full or cut-down, of the larger DG2-512 die.

In theory, this makes it easy to draw comparisons against competitors' hardware, but there's still a couple of really big unknowns. The first and perhaps most important are the kinds of clock rates that these chips can maintain under load. We've seen a few results, and a few rumors, putting these chips around 2 GHz, but those were in desktop form. It's difficult to guess what kind of performance we'll see in a laptop.

The other factor that remains to be confirmed is Intel's driver quality. We've already seen encouraging progress on this front with Intel's drivers for its integrated solutions, but supporting a powerful and power-thirsty discrete GPU like the DG2 SKU1 is a whole different ball game. It will be fascinating to see how these cards perform once we get one in-hand, and you'll know as soon as we do.