Ahead-looking: Intel’s advertising and marketing groups are going into overdrive this week forward of the upcoming launches of the cellular Arc Alchemist GPUs and a brand new flagship desktop CPU, the i9-12900KS. They put collectively a Bender video to offer us a style of Arc, and it is trying fairly fast.

Intel VP Lisa Pearce not too long ago mentioned that the corporate would announce/launch the primary Arc Alchemist GPUs on Wednesday, March 30. One among group blue’s senior engineers, Bob Duffy, took to YouTube to showcase the brand new {hardware}’s skills inside Blender.

A lot of the video is not explicitly concerning the GPU, but it surely implies some cool issues. First up, Blender is being up to date with a brand new {hardware} acceleration setting designed explicitly for Arc GPUs. Duffy mentioned we may count on this function in a Q2 Blender construct.

Additionally, though there is no solution to take particular efficiency metrics from the video, the GPU is fairly snappy with the renders. Most significantly, it really works fluidly with out bugs or artifacts, which is fairly good for pre-production silicon mixed with beta software program.

In the meantime, Intel’s different advertising and marketing group is teasing a “new member” of the twelfth Gen processor household, the Core i9-12900KS. In a Tweet, they mentioned they’d showcase it inside some featured builds on April 5.

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— Intel Expertise (@IntelTech) March 26, 2022

Because the identify implies, the 12900KS is a binned 12900K. It has the identical 16 cores and 24 threads and all the identical bodily specs. It is a bit quicker, although, with a 5.5 GHz “enhanced thermal velocity increase” clock, up from the 12900K’s 5.2 GHz non-enhanced increase.

Newegg unintentionally listed the processor for $799 final week, $185 greater than the 12900K. If it is speculated to compete with AMD’s upcoming flagship, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, it will be clever for Intel to launch theirs first as a result of group pink’s chip is rumored to reach at round $450.