The Fleshy Nerd special episode: Intel’s Tom Petersen geeks out about Arc GPUs

There’s indirectly a third player within the graphics card game. On this episode of The Fleshy Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, and Adam Patrick Murray are joined by Tom Peterson of Intel graphics to be in contact about Intel’s debut Arc GPUs for laptops, particulars about the company’s Xe HPG graphics architecture, and the kinds of capabilities yow will detect in all-Intel programs now that the company supplies discrete GPUs to enhance its Core CPUs.

The Fleshy Nerd crew kicks off the discussion with focus on of Intel’s new Arc graphics for laptops, along side how comely it’s to review Intel Arc clocks versus Nvidia GeForce clocks and AMD Radeon clocks.

The discussion also turns to factual what makes Arc tick, and whether or no longer this will crush GeForce, Radeon and Apple’s M1 in AV1 encoding efficiency (hint: it doubtlessly will).

Indirectly, Tom tells us about three new “sync” requirements being equipped with the Arc GPUs that could tender out efficiency for gamers.

There’s all this and more in this special episode of the Fleshy Nerd.

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One in all founding fathers of hardcore tech reporting, Gordon has been keeping PCs and ingredients since 1998.