Intel’s gaming GPUs promise to be magic – or at least they’re all named after RPG character classes.
Intel has been talking more about its incoming high-end gaming graphics cards, and revealing more about the branding – and thinking – behind them, the first generation of which will be Intel Arc Alchemist, with the chip giant sharing some renderings showing off this character. As we’ve already seen, the naming convention Intel is running with for its HPG (high-performance gaming) graphics cards is RPG character classes going alphabetically. The first one is Alchemist, with Hot Hardware sharing a high-res artist rendering of this character (and a couple of wallpapers courtesy of managing editor Marco Chiappetta). Check it out above, but in our opinion, it has to be said that the artwork for the Alchemist looks pretty cool. Following the Alchemist, which was codenamed DG2 previously, we’ll have what’ll effectively be DG3, DG4 and DG5, which will be Battlemage, Celestial and Druid respectively. That’s as far as Intel has got with its initial discrete GPU roadmap thus far, but that should take us out to late in the 2020s (depending on exact release cadence), bearing in mind that Alchemist is set to debut in Q1 of 2022 (with CES seeming a good bet as the right place to make a splash, as the rumor mill has already theorized).
