Intel Shows Arc Alchemist Card Shows Three 8-Pin Power Connectors

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All that power for only 3070 performance.
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if is a dev board is more likely that the connectors are there to experiment with, not because are required. If the final product has 3 connectors, i m not even reading the review.
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Nvidia is raising the power consumption bar and everyone is going to follow it, disgusting. I can get over a halo product having two 8 pin power connectors, but if you're making it standard... I'm not buying anything over one 6 pin power connector anytime soon, specially with the energy prices increasing!
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asturur:

if is a dev board is more likely that the connectors are there to experiment with, not because are required. If the final product has 3 connectors, i m not even reading the review.
I hope you`re right.
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Looks like Intel is following that trend of 500W gpus. Next gen gonna be fun.
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If it really needs this much power and has the performance of a 3070, this is a terrible start. If it has the performance of a 3090, then the 3rd power connector is acceptable. If this is just an engineering sample and the connector isn't otherwise needed, then there's nothing to worry about.
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schmidtbag:

If it really needs this much power and has the performance of a 3070, this is a terrible start. If it has the performance of a 3090, then the 3rd power connector is acceptable. If this is just an engineering sample and the connector isn't otherwise needed, then there's nothing to worry about.
Exactly, Agreed. I'm just happy there will be a third player on the market, i don't personally even care about power consumption for a desktop part.
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It's early days. As @asturur pointed out, could be a engineering sample, a development board. Different power profiles needs to be tested on real silicon, in order to have some real data. Let's hope that Intel will be smart enough to prove everyone wrong and release a "normal" power not hungry GPU.
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thats certainly a proto, the high end Xe's have 1 8 pin.