Intel's Arc A-Series Officially Brings the CPU Maker into the GPU Fight

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Intel has officially entered the graphics card market by launching its Arc series of graphics cards for gaming laptops, with desktop GPUs slated to follow sometime this summer.

The first generation of Arc A-Series mobile graphics cards debut with three different products: Intel Arc 3, Arc 5, and Arc 7. Arc 3 is available starting now, while Arc 5 and Arc 7 will be available in "early summer."

Intel says the Arc 3 graphics aim to deliver "enhanced" 1080p gaming with Arc A370M-based laptops targeting high-FPS and 1080p gaming.

Laptops with the Intel Arc 5 or Arc 7, on the other hand, aim to increase the graphics and computing performance by offering more GDDR6 memory, more Xe-cores, and more ray tracing units. You can see a comparison of all three GPUs in the chart below.

Here's what each Intel Arc A-Series mobile GPU offers | Image: Intel

Like AMD and Nvidia's graphics cards, Intel will include a companion app for its Arc series called Intel Arc Control. This will allow Intel Arc GPU owners to keep their graphics drivers up to date, create custom profiles, and utilize additional features such as a virtual camera and built-in streaming.

Intel also notes that the Arc A-Series graphics cards use its new Xe graphical micro-architecture and support high resolution and high refresh rate HDR displays alongside meeting the latest gaming standards, such as Display Port 2.0 10G. In other words, these cards support 4K/120Hz uncompressed gaming, according to Intel.

As Intel previously confirmed, its Arc series graphics cards will also support XeSS, the company's supersampling technology, to compete with AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and Nvidia's DLSS technologies. While XeSS will be the newest supersampling tech to join the