Intel Arc A750E & A580E Graphics Card PCI IDs Spotted In Linux Driver, New Refresh?

Intel has added two unreleased Arc graphics cards, the A750E & the A580E, to its Linux driver's PCI IDs list which might hint at a new refresh.

Spotted by Phoronix, Intel has added new driver patches for Linux which come with a surprise listing of two brand-new PCI GPU IDs. These two IDs are "0x56BE" and "0x56BF". Although the details regarding these GPU PCI IDs are slim on the official patch changelog, it is confirmed that these two IDs are related to two new Arc graphics card variants.

The two graphics cards include the Intel Arc A750E "0x56BE" and the Arc A580E "0x56BF". Once again, there is no information on what the main changes these two new cards will incorporate over the already existing Arc A750 and Arc A580 SKUs but we can do some guesswork. Do keep in mind that we are simply speculating here.

For starters, we know that Intel is planning to refine its Alchemist GPU architecture with the brand-new Alchemist+ refinement. This graphics architecture will be powering the mobility Arrow Lake-H CPUs while the newer Battlemage Xe2 architecture will power the Lunar Lake CPUs. One possibility is that these new Arc A750E and A580E graphics cards may be refined versions based on the newer graphics architecture. The other possibility is that these are simply refreshes of the existing SKUs in a clock speed bump upgrade.

It is also likely that we might be looking at Intel releasing Arc GPUs for other markets and the A750E and A580E could be designed for specific segments rather than being just PC DIY & OEM products such as Embedded MXM cards.

It will be interesting to see how Intel positions these two cards especially since they are expected to release Battlemage Xe2 discrete GPUs later this year.