Intel confirms Arc A380, Arc A350 desktop GPU names through a leaked driver

[Lightwreather]

Summary

As it turns out, the 30.0.101.9999 test driver that Intel themselves accidentally posted on the official website, contains more than just IDs of unreleased hardware. 

 

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 We were just tipped (by someone who wishes to remain anonymous) that the SYS files in the driver reveal the names of unreleased Intel Xe-HPG GPUs known as Arc Alchemist. The driver already features as many as four SKUs: two desktops, and two mobile:

• Intel (R) Arc (TM) A380 Graphics Family.
• Intel (R) Arc (TM) A350 Graphics Family.
• Intel (R) Arc (TM) A370M Graphics Family.
• Intel (R) Arc (TM) A350M Graphics Family.
• Intel (R) Iris (R) Xe A200M Graphics Family. 

 

My thoughts

Hopefully this doesn't cost as much as a full A380/A350 (The aircraft). But yea, seems like this is the naming scheme Intel is going for. I'm going to be assuming that the ones with the "M" Suffix are mobile parts. But we'll have to wait and see intel pulls.

Sources

Videocardz

[Albal_156]

Hopefuly as its an A380 it will be able to carry big heavy loads on approach to the airport... sorry on approach to the biggest games coming up.

[Mark Kaine]

Arca350/380?  yeah that really rolls of the tongue very naturally...  

 

Anyway it wont matter people will buy them all up for obvious reasons no matter what (unless performance is *really* bad, as in gtx1050 bad...) 

[leadeater]

Can't wait for the competing 737 Max GPUs and then the C-5M Super Galaxy.

 

In either case there better be multiple plane loads of the damn things else it's market irrelevant and only useful discussion material for how good, or not, they could be if you could actually get one.

[Space646]

Oh, the 737 Max-8 will be very good GPUs, but only from time to time, 

maybe they will sometimes explode or crash, not very big side effects

[Lightwreather]

20 minutes ago, Space646 said:

Oh, the 737 Max-8 will be very good GPUs, but only from time to time, 

maybe they will sometimes explode or crash, not very big side effects

And all because of the onboard AI that's supposed to improve your gaming experience. /s

[Kisai]

2 hours ago, J-from-Nucleon said:

Summary

As it turns out, the 30.0.101.9999 test driver that Intel themselves accidentally posted on the official website, contains more than just IDs of unreleased hardware. 

 

Quotes

 

My thoughts

Hopefully this doesn't cost as much as a full A380/A350 (The aircraft). But yea, seems like this is the naming scheme Intel is going for. I'm going to be assuming that the ones with the "M" Suffix are mobile parts. But we'll have to wait and see intel pulls.

Sources

Videocardz

Seems like those x80 and x50 numbers are intended to align with "being better than nVidia" parts, but we will have to wait and see. Similar to how AMD's x800 parts align to nvidia's x80's

 

Like I hope these are comparable parts, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, Albal_156 said:

Hopefuly as its an A380 it will be able to carry big heavy loads on approach to the airport... sorry on approach to the biggest games coming up.

Airbus to name their next plane i5 in retaliation... 

[porina]

3 hours ago, Kisai said:

Seems like those x80 and x50 numbers are intended to align with "being better than nVidia" parts, but we will have to wait and see. Similar to how AMD's x800 parts align to nvidia's x80's

 

Like I hope these are comparable parts, but I'm not holding my breath.

From the source:

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One would guess that A3XX should be equivalent to the CPU Core i3 performance tier. It is possible that A5XX, A7XX, and A9XX are also planned.

So these names may not be for the higher end models, but we don't really know until we get more info.

 

Given they have announced the A, B, C, D... thing, then gen beyond this would be B3xx etc. so they can reuse the same numbers without power creep like AMD/nvidia.

[CTR640]

5 hours ago, leadeater said:

Can't wait for the competing 737 Max GPUs and then the C-5M Super Galaxy.

 

In either case there better be multiple plane loads of the damn things else it's market irrelevant and only useful discussion material for how good, or not, they could be if you could actually get one.

I'm not really sure about that. The pilots, eh I mean the drivers have to be optimized first.

[Middcore]

So instead of the RPG character class names they named them after Airbus models? 

[Lightwreather]

1 hour ago, porina said:

B3xx etc

That's probably gonna confuse some people with mobo chipsets......

[Founders]

8 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

Arca350/380?  yeah that really rolls of the tongue very naturally...  

 

Anyway it wont matter people will buy them all up for obvious reasons no matter what (unless performance is *really* bad, as in gtx1050 bad...) 

 

Given Intel's current numbering/naming of their CPU hierarchy, I don't think their scheme here is too terrible. After the 9900K Intel should have changed their numbering strategy for their consumer level CPUs. But as you said, people will buy them up if they're not hot garbage. MSRP will be nonexistent and supply will suck... Yeah...  

[porina]

On 12/17/2021 at 8:05 PM, J-from-Nucleon said:

That's probably gonna confuse some people with mobo chipsets......

AMD did worse with their chipset naming tricks and got away with it. Easy enough for Intel to ensure it isn't an exact duplication of an existing chipset by making numbers slightly different.

 

On 12/17/2021 at 6:54 PM, Middcore said:

So instead of the RPG character class names they named them after Airbus models? 

They're different things. The names are the architecture generation, with the letter/number part being a specific model of that generation. In a parallel we have Golden Cove architecture used in Alder Lake consumer product line with specific models under that.

[aisle9]

On 12/17/2021 at 6:43 AM, Albal_156 said:

Hopefuly as its an A380 it will be able to carry big heavy loads on approach to the airport... sorry on approach to the biggest games coming up.

The A380 was an abject failure that lost a shit-ton of money for Airbus. Now, the A320, there's a cash cow of an entry-level if I've ever seen one.

[leadeater]

3 hours ago, aisle9 said:

The A380 was an abject failure that lost a shit-ton of money for Airbus. Now, the A320, there's a cash cow of an entry-level if I've ever seen one.

Intel Marketing Team: "Why is everyone talking about airplanes?!?!"

[CTR640]

3 hours ago, leadeater said:

Intel Marketing Team: "Why is everyone talking about airplanes?!?!"

BeCaUsE mIcRoSoft fLiGhT sImUlaTor!!!!!

[aisle9]

4 hours ago, leadeater said:

Intel Marketing Team: "Why is everyone talking about airplanes?!?!"

Airbus marketing team: "Why do people keep asking us about graphics cards?!?!"

[leadeater]

2 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Airbus marketing team: "Why do people keep asking us about graphics cards?!?!"

What FPS do your planes fly at and and do they have vsync on or off? Is First Class RTX enabled?

[aisle9]

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

What FPS do your planes fly at and and do they have vsync on or off?

"Vsync? Our planes don't sink! Who do you think we are, Boeing?"

[RejZoR]

I wonder who will be brave enough to buy something entirely new and unproven, even if it's from known vendor like Intel. I remember old days when XGI existed and released Volari series graphic cards. XGI consisted of SiS and Trident engineers which back then was still very well known. And even back then I wondered, who bought those cards. Turns out not many as it didn't work out well, mostly because of under performing and software issues. Mainly software issues, but there was plenty of competition. Then again, so is today as both AMD and NVIDIA are very strong in graphics department.

 

Currently it might be desperation of gamers who will buy anything if it's just a graphic card that's a bit better than GTX 1050 from a century ago at this point. I'm optimistic, but also won't be surprised if they'll suck from software perspective. So many tried and software was always the issue with graphic cards. Even from reputable big vendors of the past.

[Quackers101]

380 and 350? sounds very much like an 3080 and 3050. Doubt they will perform any similar, but would be cool to see if they can even match those cards on the lower or higher end. Also how overall cooling and performance per watt.

[leadeater]

4 hours ago, RejZoR said:

I wonder who will be brave enough to buy something entirely new and unproven, even if it's from known vendor like Intel.

If the reviews show it's good and value for money I would, no reason not to.

[Quackers101]

12 minutes ago, leadeater said:

If the reviews show it's good and value for money I would, no reason not to.

also that oneAPI can help a lot. not sure how good it will perform with oneAPI but cool

[NumLock21]

In other news lawyers from Airbus told Intel to drop to change their model numbers because their customers are getting confused between the A380 plane and A380 video card.