Intel publicly shows off Arc Alchemist GPU running Tomb Raider

 Investors got to see both Intel's newest graphics card and AI-powered supersampling tech working hand in hand.

Intel publicly shows off Arc Alchemist GPU running Tomb Raider

At an event for Intel investors on Thursday, the chipmaker showed off its Arc Alchemist plates card for the first time. In a print posted on Twitter by Intel elderly VP Raja Koduri, we can see a desktop with Intel's Alchemist GPU running Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The picture is being helped by Xe SuperSampling (XeSS), Intel's answer to Nvidia's DLSS and AMD FSR AI supersampling and upscaling technologies. 

 

 The compact gaming carriage casing the Arc Canyon plates is the'Beast Canyon'from custom-made PC builder SimplyNUC, according to our musketeers at Tom's Hardware. NUC is known for making forcefully bitsy PCs. Still, I'd have to agree with Tom's that it's strange that a game from 2018 was used to show off Intel's new long- awaited GPU. 

The three super slice results (XeSS, DLSS, and FSR) all do roughly the same thing, rendering games at a lower resolution than they are going to be displayed at, which can be done briskly, and also blowing them up to the screen resolution using AI ways to keep the image sharp. Last summer, a tech rally showed a XeSS rendering at 1080p and also upscaling it to 4K. What sets XeSS piecemeal from DLSS and FSR is that the tech will work on any plates card, not just Intel's line of GPUs, so indeed Nvidia and AMD diehards have reason to be curious about Intel's rearmost work in the plates sector. 

 

 I would have loved to see Arc Alchemist handle commodity a little further graphical taxing like on its Alchemist swish roll than an nearly four old game. Still, the fact that any of Intel's new GPUs are being shown off in an sanctioned capacity suggests that Intel is on track to hit its Q2 launch window latterly this time. 

A third player to contend against AMD and Nvidia is a welcome addition to the GPU race. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has got quite a mountain to climb, and it will be intriguing to see how Intel handles the force chain issues that have agonized its challengers.