An American webshop B&H Photo Video offered for a short time a Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro laptop with an unreleased Intel Arc series GPU. The sales page has since been taken offline. The official unveiling of Intel’s Arc GPUs will take place on March 30.
The deleted product page of the already announced Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro revealed that the South Korean manufacturer opts for a new discrete GPU from Intel. This would make Samsung the first known to use such GPUs in laptops writes VideoCardz. So far, Intel has not announced any partners or a concrete release date for Arc Alchemist; that will take place on March 30. The Galaxy Book 2 Pro will be released two days later, presumably directly with an Arc GPU.
No official information has yet been released about the price of Intel’s own graphics cards for laptops. On the other hand, based on the price of the Galaxy Book 2 Pro in the relevant webshop, it can be concluded that an Arc GPU will not cost much extra. A current Galaxy Book Pro costs in the United States $1,310, while the successor with similar specs and a new Arc video card costs $1,350 through the B&H Photo Video web store.
Intel has been reporting for some time that the Arc series GPUs would be released in the first months of 2022. Initially, that is the A370M for laptops. A version for desktops should also be released at a later date. Intel has the discrete video cards made by TSMC. The cards are based on the Xe-HPG microarchitecture and are intended for gaming and content creation. Arc, codenamed Alchemist, also supports ray tracing and can divide part of the work over the integrated and discrete GPU or even hand everything over to the igpu in the processor by means of Deep Link technology.
The product page of the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro was initially discovered by Twitterer TheMalcore