Intel announces Arc Pro A workstation GPUs for desktops and laptops

Intel has announced the first Arc Pro graphics cards for workstations. It concerns three GPUs, two for desktops and one for laptops. The A50 is the top model, a dual slot desktop card that has a higher TDP than the other two models.

Next to the A50 announced Intel A40 and A30M cards, the latter being the laptop card. The three GPUs share many specifications and all three support, for example, ray tracing and AV1 hardware encoding acceleration, and are built on TSMC’s 6nm node.

The three cards have eight Xe cores, eight ray tracing cores and a base clock speed of 2000MHz. The laptop card differs mainly from the memory of the two desktop cards. For example, the A30M has 4GB GDDR6 memory, with a 64bit memory interface and a memory bandwidth of 128GB/s. The two desktop cards have 6GB GDDR6 memory, with a 96-bit interface and a bandwidth of 192GB/s.

The single slot desktop card A40 and the laptop GPU A30M do share the same TDP, with 50W. With the A50, this is 25W higher. Intel claims that the A50 can therefore deliver more single-precision computing power and speaks of 4.8Tflops. The A40 could deliver 3.5Tflops, just like the A30M. The two desktop cards get four mini-DP 1.4 ports. The first desktops and laptops with Arc Pro cards should appear later this year. There is no mention of suggested retail prices.