The first laptops with Intel Arc 3 discrete graphics began shipping earlier this year, although notebooks with Intel’s entry-level GPU still aren’t exactly common.
Even less common? Notebooks with Intel’s higher-performance Arc 5 and Arc 7 discrete GPUs. The chip maker said we’d have to wait until this summer for those models to arrive. But customers in China can now pre-order one of the first notebooks sporting an Intel Arc 7 GPU.
The Machenike Discovery Edition 2022 is a notebook with a 16 inch, 2.5K WQHD display with a 16:10 aspect ratio and 165 Hz refresh rate. Under the hood it has a 45-watt Intel Core i7-12700H 14-core, 20-thread processor and Intel’s Arc A730M GPU, which features:
- 1.1 GHz GPU clock frequency
- 24 Xe cores
- 24 ray tracing units
- 384 execution units
- 3072 FP32 cores
- 12GB GDDR6 memory
- 192-bit memory bus
- 80-120W TGP
While Arc A730M is only the second most powerful mobile GPU Intel plans to launch this year (the Arc A770M has more cores, more memory, a higher clock speed, and higher power consumption), the A730M GPU should be a big step up from the Arc 3 A350M and Arc 3 A370M GPus that are currently available.
Just don’t expect notebooks with Intel Arc 7 graphics to come cheap: a Machenike laptop Intel Arc A730M is going for around $1275 in China. While that’s not an unreasonable price for a gaming laptop with a decent discrete GPU, it’s not exactly pocket change either. And it’s likely that laptops with similar specs will cost a bit more when they reach North America and Europe in the coming months.
Arc 3 A350M | Arc 3 A370M | Arc 5 A550M | Arc 7 A730M | Arc 7 A770M | |
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GPU | DG2-128 (ACM-G11) | DG2-128 (ACM-G11) | DG2-512 (ACM-G10) | DG2-512 (ACM-G10) | DG2-512 (ACM-G10) |
Xe Cores | 6 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 |
Ray Tracing Units | 6 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 |
Execution Units | 96 | 128 | 256 | 384 | 512 |
FP32 Cores | 768 | 1024 | 2048 | 3072 | 4096 |
GPU Clock | 1150 MHz | 1550 MHz | 900 MHz | 1100 MHz | 1650 MHz |
GDDR6 Memory | 4GB | 4GB | 8GB | 12GB | 16GB |
Memory Bus | 64-bit | 64-bit | 128-bit | 192-bit | 256-bit |
TGP | 25-35W | 35-50W | 60-80W | 80-120W | 120-150W |
Availability | Now | Now | Early Summer 2022 | Early Summer 2022 | Early Summer 2022 |
via Tom’s Hardware and VideoCardz