Alchemist

— the first generation of Intel’s discrete Xe-HPG graphics architecture, used in Arc A-series graphics cards. It features hardware ray-tracing units, XMX matrix engines for accelerating AI operations and XeSS upscaling, as well as an advanced media engine with hardware video processing, including the AV1 format. These graphics cards are primarily suitable for gaming at 1080p or 1440p, video editing and encoding; however, their performance depends significantly on the specific game and driver version. Full performance from Alchemist requires a computer with Resizable BAR support, as frame rates may drop substantially without it.