


Executing the two tasks at the same time results in a big speed boost. Personalize your Arc GPU per light to match the preferred aesthetic of your gaming setup. “The new integer pipeline handles those extra instructions separately from and concurrently with the FP32 pipeline. The Arc A770 and Arc A380, already two of the best graphics cards, are getting even more affordable, dropping in price by up to 18. Intel and Cooler Master® collaborated to create the brand-new Intel Arc RGB Controller, custom designed to harness 90 individually addressable LEDs on Intel® Arc A770 Graphics Limited Edition cards. “When Nvidia examined how real-world games behaved, it found that for every 100 floating point instructions performed, an average of 36 and as many as 50 non-floating point instructions were also processed, jamming things up,” we wrote in 2018. Nvidia introduced concurrent FP/INT pipelines with its RTX 20-series “Turing” architecture to keep integer tasks from clogging up the FP32 pipeline, and it’s become the norm since. Each Xe Vector Engine includes a dedicated floating point (FP) execution port to handle traditional shading tasks, along with a shared INT/EM port that can tackle integer-based tasks at the same time. Intel’s Arc desktop collection, codenamed Alchemist internally by Intel, looks to focus more on general consumers than enthusiast-level gamers with reasonably priced GPUs that target. The biggest companies in PC gaming may be betting big on ray tracing being the future of graphics-each Xe Core includes a specialized Thread Sorting Unit designed to help shaders process willy-nilly bouncing ray tracing data more efficiently, for example-but traditional rendering remains king for now. Intel has long-teased its Arc graphics card collection, and after months of teasers, we’re finally seeing the budget-friendly graphics cards begin to appear.
