Intel Arc G3 Handheld Internals Revealed As MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ Bares All
The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, one of the first handhelds to leverage Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme SoC, is set to release on June 23rd. Ahead of that release an Intel engineer has shared a peek at the handheld's internals.
For those unfamiliar with the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ or Intel Arc G3 Extreme, the short version is that the current mid-range of the handheld market is dominated by the AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme, which features a Radeon 890M iGPU. The AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme is an 8-core SoC based on AMD's Zen 5 architecture (with 3 Zen 5 and 5 Zen 5C cores), and its Radeon 890M iGPU features 16 RDNA 3.5 Compute Units.
While the Z2 has been successful in the $1000-$1500 price range, in handhelds like the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, the graphics architecture is getting a bit long in the tooth....
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