Intel Introduces The Arc A-Series Mobile Graphics
It was refreshing to see Intel talking up their AV1 hardware capabilities and giving plenty of attention to this notable open-source, royalty-free video codec during their media briefing.
Intel Arc Graphics support leading display capabilities with HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4a.
Adaptive-Sync is supported by Arc Graphics, which comes as no surprise with Intel supporting Adaptive-Sync going back to Gen11 Ice Lake graphics. Intel's Linux graphics driver does already have Adaptive-Sync plumbed for Gen11/Gen12. Intel also talked up their new "Speed Sync" technology for low latency and no tearing, but so far that doesn't appear to be supported yet under Linux - at least I haven't seen any patches about it yet. Similarly, Smooth Sync is another new feature they have been working on but to which I haven't seen any open-source/Linux signs yet.
Intel outlined the ACM-G10 and ACM-G11 specs with the ACM-G10 being their higher-end Alchemist part. Linux patches have also pointed to a DG2-G12 (ACM-G12) but that wasn't part of today's presentation.
And a look at the actual A-Series Mobile Graphics SKUs being announced today... Again the Intel Arc A350M and A370M parts should be appearing in laptop designs starting today or April while the Arc A550M, A730M, and A770M models won't be premiering until early summer. It's those later models that should be very interesting but even the Arc 3 graphics should make for nice light to moderate Linux desktop needs if the driver support is up to par.