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If Intel wants to launch its new cards in the first quarter of next year, it could now actually have ready-made versions of its reference versions. At the same time, we still do not know whether desktop cards or only mobile cards should appear on the market at the beginning of the year, but these photos can confirm us that Intel will not delay the launch of desktop cards. But we’ll see.
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The design of these cards basically has nothing to surprise us with. Cooling is in line with what AMD and NVIDIA offer, including the part of the heatsink that doesn’t have a PCB behind it, so air can flow straight through. We also have one eight-pin and one six-pin PCIe connector, which means the highest theoretical consumption of 300 W (150 + 75 W and another 75 W from the slot).
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Finally, we can look at an even weaker version, which will probably be a low-end card with 128 Xe cores, which, according to the photo, will probably suffice with 75 W from the slot. It could be as powerful as the GTX 1660 Ti, while the full-fat Alchemist with 512 Xe cores should be somewhere on the level of the RTX 3070 Ti or AMD RX 6800, unless perhaps Intel could effectively fog. It would certainly be a pleasant surprise if the graphics performance was significantly better in the end, similar to the Ponte Vecchio accelerators. But if Alchemist were to hit the market in the winter, preliminary tests could soon begin to tell us.
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