— the Intel Arc series marked the beginning of discrete graphics cards from Intel with their release to the masses. They are built on the Xe-HPG microarchitecture. The first-born of the desktop line was the A380 graphics card, positioned as an entry-level gaming 3D accelerator. Note that this budget model supports real-time ray tracing - for this it has 8 specialized cores. Intel Arc A380 supports hardware accelerated AV1 graphics encoding, HEVC and H.264 encoding and decoding, and DX12 Ultimate support is also announced. The stock TBP level of the graphics card is 75 W, so it can do without an additional power connector. Arc chips of the first generation belong to the Alchemist family, the Battlemage, Celestial and Druid series are reserved for them in the future.
