… But it didn't bother releasing its new big Battlemage GPU for gaming and all the indications are that the Arc experiment is over, with Intel set to replace Arc iGPUs in its chips with Nvidia graphics tech in a generation or two. …
… Its long-awaited Panther Lake-based handheld gaming PC processors have just been officially announced, and they're called the Intel Arc G3 and the Intel Arc G3 Extreme . …
… For a handheld gaming PC, though, what ultimately matters is the iGPU, and that's where the Arc G3 Extreme could be a real winner. …
… One might point to the Intel Arc Pro B70 . But that's a $1,000 AI GPU with the gaming performance of a $400 desktop graphics card. So, it's hard to see how it's relevant. And Nvidia's new RTX Spark is an APU with CPU cores, not a pure GPU. …
… It's the larger sibling to the G21 GPU as seen in the Intel Arc B580 , Intel's second generation of graphics architecture, itself known variously as Battlemage or Xe2. …
… Yesterday, Intel announced new Panther Lake chips designed specifically for handhelds, called the Arc G-Series Arc G3 and G3 Extreme , and while we've already seen MSI's expensive Claw offering featuring one of the new chips, Acer has now also sprung one on us in the form of the Predator Atlas 8 . …
… You are getting less GPU for the same amount of dollars technically, that is. …
… Now, let's return to handhelds that will feature Intel's latest Arc G-series chips. We've already seen retailer listings on multiple occasions in Australia and EU markets for G-series MSI Claw handhelds that suggest a very high initial price tag, translating to around $1,800 USD or more. …
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… Anyway, while that might seem like a miserable showing, there's definitely promise in the GPU architecture. …