Intel with two new graphics cards for business use

Intel will offer workstation users a new graphics card in the form of the Arc Pro A60 and at the same time a new mobile graphics card Arc Pro A60M.

These new graphics cards will not compete with other graphics cards aimed at gamers, nor with Intel's own family of Arc A7XX cards. However, the Pro A60 will be desirable for workstation users for several reasons.

First, it's a single-slot graphics card that uses only 130 watts of power, so it will easily fit into almost any computer case and work with most power supplies. Intel promises a significant performance improvement over previous Arc Pro cards, with twice the number of PCIe lanes to 16, doubling the memory bandwidth to 384 gigabytes per second, and doubling the number of dedicated AI XMX extender engines to 256. There are also twice as many units for ray tracing, and the card is equipped with 12 GB of VRAM, supports up to four screens, HDR and Dolby Vision.

So what will this graphics card be used for? Intel sees it as the perfect card for anyone working in 'architecture, engineering and construction, design and manufacturing'. The drivers (updated every 3 months) will be certified for use with popular workstation applications such as those offered by Autodesk for computer-aided design and 3D modeling. It also has full AV1 hardware acceleration, which means it's ideal for creating and encoding media.

The new Arc Pro cards will enter the market in the next few weeks, embedded in HP, Dell and Lenovo workstations. Mobile workstations featuring the Arc Pro A60M mobile graphics card will be available in the coming months. The mobile chip is equipped with 8 GB of memory, 16 PCIe lanes and has a power between 65-95 watts. Another way to get one of the new cards is to buy a NUC. Intel says it can be slotted into the NUC 13 Extreme, which would pair it with a 13th generation Intel Core processor. Thus, we would have quite decent performance in an extremely small case.