Intel ARC A750 16GB Engineering Sample spotted – 512-bit memory bus?

Intel ARC Engineering sample leaks with 16GB of memory and two 8-pin PCIe power connectors

A new engineering sample for Intel’s ARC A750 graphics card has been spotted, unveiling an unreleased ARC Alchemist GPU model that Intel considered releasing. This Intel GPU sample is a 16GB ARC A750 GPU from Gunnir, which has come into the possession of @komenezumi1006.

This unreleased Intel ARC GPU appears to be fully functional. The GPU utilises two 8-pin PCIe cables for power and features a label that indicates the GPU has 16GB of GDDR6 memory across a 512-bit memory bus. Standard Intel ARC A750 GPUs use an 8+6-pin PCIe power configuration and feature 8GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit memory bus.

Does this 16GB Intel ARC GPU feature a 512-bit memory bus?

The owner of this GPU has claimed that this graphics card is listed as having a 256-bit memory bus on GPU-Z. Currently, it is unknown why this GPU has a 512-bit memory listing. Our guess is that this GPU was mislabeled, with someone assuming that a 2x increase in memory capacity requires a doubling in memory bus size.

Based on images of this GPU, it isn’t a dual ARC A750 GPU, a configuration that would give the GPU two GPU cores and two 256-bit memory buses (512-bit total). As you can see above, this GPU has only one ARC A750 GPU core. If this GPU did have a 512-bit memory bus, it would require a new GPU core design. That’s why we believe this label simply has incorrect specifications.

Note that this GPU appears to be fully functional. Windows Task Manager lists the GPU as a 16GB graphics card. Furthermore, it appears to work with new Intel ARC GPU drivers.

The only 16GB ARC A-series GPU to luanch is Intel’s ARC A770. This GPU was available in 8GB and 16GB forms. It looks like Intel may have planned to also release a 16GB ARC B750 GPU. If that happened, this would have made Intel’s lower-end ARC A750 GPU a lot more appealing. However, it would have lessened the appeal of Intel’s newer ARC Battlemage B570. After all, that GPU only launched with 12GB of memory.

You can join the discussion on Intel’s leaked ARC A750 16GB graphics card on the OC3D Forums.

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