The Intel Arc Alchemist GPU with 256 processing units has the same performance as the RX 580

The Intel Arc Alchemist Xe graphics card with 256 processors and 6 GB of VRAM in the OpenCL benchmark performed similarly to Nvidia’s RX 580 Radeon or GTX 1650.

Twitter revelation with the username Benchleaks shared the results of the implementation of two Geekbench 5 benchmarks on a notebook equipped with a Core i5-12500H processor and Intel’s proprietary Arc Alchemist Xe graphics. The Arc Alchemist graphics in this notebook use 256 processing units and 6 GB of random video access memory (VRAM) and according to the OpenCL scores, it seems to have the same performance as the RX 580 Radeon or the GeForce GTX 1650 Super Nvidia.

OpenCl is one of the Geekbench 5 tools for modeling GPU computing.

The Intel DG2 family of GPUs consists of five configurations: the most powerful model will have 512 operating units, followed by GPUs with 384, 256, 128 and 96 computing units; Therefore, version 256 of this family seems to be one of Intel’s mid-range GPUs for the mobile GPU market.

The revealed results of running two OpenCL geekenches benchmarks on a notebook are slightly different; The first shows 46,540 points and the second shows a slight decrease of 45,483 points.

These scores are similar to the results of the OpenCL GeekBench 5 benchmark on several older Imedi and Nvidia GPUs, such as the RX 480 and RX 580 Radeon, the RX 5600M, as well as the GTX 1650 Ti and GTX 1080 Max-Q. It turns out that Intel’s Arc Alchemist mobile GPU with 256 computing units is not that powerful.