intel: Intel announces the availability of Arc A380 GPU – Times of India

Intel has announced the availability of the Intel Arc A380 graphics processing unit (GPU). The Arc A380 is the first of its Arc A-series 3 graphics desktop products that claim to offer mainstream gamers and content creators with a new option.
The Intel Arc A380 GPU comes with 6GB of GDDR6 to support the latest games and it will be available from desktop PC ecosystem partners Acer, ASUS, Gigabyte, GUNNIR, HP, and MSI starting this month. Initially, the GPU will start rolling out in China and the company will expand it availability globally later this year.
Intel Arc A380: Features
Intel Arc A380 is a first of its series and it is Intel’s one of the first desktop cards based on the Intel Xe High Performance Graphics (Xe HPG) microarchitecture. Intel Arc A-series 3 graphics bring next-generation technologies to mainstream gamers and creators with all the latest technology feature set in its segment.
The Intel Arc A380 GPU supports the full set of DirectX 12 Ultimate features, including hardware accelerated ray tracing and claims to deliver 1080p gaming experience at 60 frames per second (FPS) and above.
The GPU is also equipped with Intel Xe Matrix Extensions (Intel XMX) AI acceleration engines that claim to enable faster content creation and power Intel’s AI-based super sampling technology, XeSS, which arrives this summer.
The Xe Media Engine enables video processing with industry-first hardware AV1 encoding acceleration, also supports HEVC and H.264 encode and decode, and is capable of 8K resolution media processing. The Xe Display Engine supports up to four 4K 120Hz HDR displays, up to two 8K 60Hz displays or up to 360Hz for 1080p and 1440p resolutions.