No matter how madly it may sound, the PC World editor had to visit the Intel headquarters to access the ARC A370M laptop. We remind you that Intel officially introduced its models ARC A350M and A370M on March 30. Later it turned out that this is an exclusive launch of the only design for South Korea. Now the 5th week has been taking place since the “launch”, and so far no reviewer has officially received a model of a laptop for testing.

Although it cannot be denied that the launch of the ARC A-Series was postponed and this was very poorly reported, things are better better every week. Several manufacturers of laptops announced their systems with the ACM-G11 graphic processor (“small” alchemist), which is probably not what we expected at the moment, but this is a good sign that things are finally moving in the right direction.

Until now, we have only seen the release of Intel ARC A350M based on the Samsung Book2 Pro system. The PCWorLD team was provided with access to the MSI Summit E16 Flip Evo laptop and some other comparison systems.

Recall: Intel ARC A370M is equipped with 8 cores of the XE-Core of the ACM-G11 graphic processor. This graphic processor is combined with 4 GB of 64-bit GDDR6 memory and operates in the TGP range from 35 to 50 watts (therefore it is very similar to RTX 3050M).

The bottom line is that the ARC A370M is as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 graphic processor for laptops (the slowest ampere). In most cases, it offers similar performance, but, given how few games were tested, it is too early to draw the final conclusions.

Does this mean that the ARC A550M can compete with the RTX 3060, and the ARC 7 series has a chance to achieve the RTX 3070 series? It may well be. However, given the lethargy of this launch, by the time the entire stack of ARC A-series will become widely available, most likely we will talk about the next generation mobile graphic processors from AMD and NVIDIA.