
Intel Serpent Canyon NUC 12 review: Fast mini PC with Intel Core i7-12700H and Intel Arc A770M
Intel Core i7-12700H | Intel Arc A770M | 2 kg
The Intel Arc A770M (Device ID 5690) is a dedicated mid-range graphics card from Intel for notebooks. It is based on the ACM-G10 chip and offers all 32 Xe cores (512 ALUs), 32 ray tracing units, 6 MB L1 cache and 16 MB L2 cache. The clock rates can range from 300 MHz to 1650 MHz (gaming) to 2050 MHz (turbo). The memory interface is 256 bits wide and supports 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with 16 Gbps. The TGP is between 120 and 150 watts depending on the model.
The performance of the A770M is on average of all games we tested approx. 4% ahead of a mobile RTX 3060 laptop GPU. However, there are significant deviations depending on the game. In Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, for example, the A770M can reach the level of an RTX 3070 laptop GPU and demonstrate its theoretical performance.
The ACM-G10 chip is manufactured at TSMC in 6 nm (N6 process), uses a BGA2660 interface (resolved), offers 21.7 billion transistors and is 406 mm² in size. It integrates two media engines for VP9, AVC, HEVC, AV1 8k60 12-bit HDR decoding and 8k 10-bit HDR encoding. The integrated 4 display pipes support 4x 4k120 HDR, HDMI 2.0B, DP 2.0 10G and Adaptive Sync.
Dynamic Power Share can be used with a 12th generation CPU (Alder Lake) via Deep Link.
Arc Series
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Codename | Alchemist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | Xe HPG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 4096 - unified | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Raytracing Cores | 32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 1650 MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cache | L1: 6 MB, L2: 16 MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Speed | 16000 MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bus Width | 256 Bit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Type | GDDR6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max. Amount of Memory | 16 GB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bandwidth | 512 GB/s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12_2, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power Consumption | 150 Watt (120 - 150 Watt TGP) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transistor Count | 21.7 Billion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Die Size | 406 mm² | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
technology | 6 nm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PCIe | 4 16x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Displays | 4 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 2.0 10G Ready | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notebook Size | large | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 30.03.2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Link to Manufacturer Page | ark.intel.com |
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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F1 25 | 178.5 | 150.6 | 121.2 | 20.5 | 7.33 | |
Doom: The Dark Ages | 42.3 | 36.9 | 33.6 | 32.4 | 22.6 | |
Assassin's Creed Shadows | 39 | 37 | 33 | 26 | ||
Civilization 7 | 155.7 | 114.9 | ||||
Monster Hunter Wilds | 26.5 | 23.2 | 17.9 | 15.1 | ||
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 | 78.9 | 65.3 | 45.6 | 35.4 | ||
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle | 53.2 | 40.9 | ||||
Stalker 2 | 43 | 42.3 | 37.3 | 32.6 | ||
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 | 63 | 58 | 44 | 42 | 32 | |
Space Marine 2 | 37.8 | 30.5 | ||||
Star Wars Outlaws | 42.8 | 40.9 | 35.1 | 29.5 | ||
Black Myth: Wukong | 56 | 42 | 32 | 19 | 15 | |
F1 24 | 229 | 196.4 | 151.3 | 49.1 | ||
Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 | 34.2 | 27.3 | 19.9 | |||
Ghost of Tsushima | 53.2 | 41.7 | ||||
Helldivers 2 | 96.2 | 73.7 | 32.3 | |||
Palworld | 61.7 | 46.6 | ||||
The Finals | 106 | 69.6 | ||||
Total War Pharaoh | 67.3 | |||||
EA Sports FC 24 | 116.9 | |||||
Counter-Strike 2 | 79.2 | |||||
Cyberpunk 2077 2.2 Phantom Liberty | 97.1 | 78.8 | 65 | 43 | 20.7 | |
Baldur's Gate 3 | 88.9 | 60.6 | 31.7 | |||
Hogwarts Legacy | 51.9 | 52.5 | 55.1 | 51.9 | 39.1 | 22.2 |
Dead Space Remake | 42.2 | 49.2 | 46.2 | 54.1 | 24.4 | 15.8 |
The Witcher 3 v4 | 143.7 | 125.1 | 111.3 | 99.2 | 44.1 | |
High On Life | 178.5 | 126.5 | 99.7 | 80.9 | 52.9 | 24.9 |
The Callisto Protocol | 122.5 | 90.6 | 64.1 | 64 | 47.5 | 28.1 |
Spider-Man Miles Morales | 102.8 | 100 | 90 | 86.4 | 67.7 | 38.3 |
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 | 95 | 86 | 71 | 68 | 51 | 32 |
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection | 43.4 | 40.8 | 44.2 | 43.4 | 41.1 | |
A Plague Tale Requiem | 79.3 | 71.5 | 55 | 42.1 | 31.9 | 18.6 |
The Quarry | 108 | 84.9 | 69.3 | 52.9 | 35.9 | 18.8 |
F1 22 | 181.5 | 166 | 131 | 42 | 27.8 | 14.6 |
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands | 192.2 | 138.5 | 95.1 | 76.8 | 52.4 | 27.4 |
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 | 112.5 | 95.3 | 77 | 66.5 | 44 | 21.6 |
GRID Legends | 143.1 | 117.9 | 95.9 | 81.2 | 74.5 | 71.9 |
Elden Ring | 57.7 | 40.8 | ||||
God of War | 62.1 | 62.3 | 59.3 | 47.3 | 26.8 | |
Guardians of the Galaxy | 124 | 112 | 110 | 105 | 79 | 45 |
Far Cry 6 | 143.2 | 119.9 | 103.3 | 88 | 67.7 | 40.2 |
New World | 101.9 | 84.2 | 77.6 | 74.8 | 35.2 | |
F1 2021 | 355 | 285 | 227 | 106.4 | 75.9 | 43.6 |
Death Stranding | 140.6 | 123.7 | 116.6 | 113.7 | 85.7 | 49.4 |
F1 2020 | 249 | 175.9 | 149.9 | 104.5 | 81.6 | 53.1 |
Borderlands 3 | 99.4 | 87 | 78.9 | 69.2 | 53.5 | 29.1 |
Far Cry New Dawn | 115 | 100 | 95 | 85 | 50 | |
Metro Exodus | 155.1 | 123.8 | 85.1 | 69.6 | 56.5 | 37 |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 100.9 | 74.2 | 73 | 68.5 | 57.6 | 38.6 |
Strange Brigade | 439 | 256 | 211 | 178.7 | 74.3 | |
Far Cry 5 | 127 | 106 | 99 | 95 | 81 | 45 |
X-Plane 11.11 | 67.5 | 59.4 | 55.5 | 38.5 | ||
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark | 132.4 | 91.3 | 50.7 | 41.6 | 28.6 | |
Dota 2 Reborn | 110.1 | 96.3 | 104 | 101.7 | 85.9 | |
The Witcher 3 | 274.7 | 172.7 | 50.7 | 61.5 | ||
GTA V | 174.5 | 165.6 | 119.4 | 53.3 | 45.2 | |
low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 9 14 19 | 1 11 19 12 | 1 14 21 8 | 5 16 25 1 | 7 20 15 | 13 18 4 |
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