With a delay of almost a year, the Intel ARC gaming graphics cards They finally hit the market. The most powerful model Intel ARC A770will go on sale on October 12 °At a price of $329. In Spain, if they come out here, it would cost around 400 euros, adding VAT. Intel has also confirmed the model Intel ARC A750but no date.
The new Intel ARC A770 card comes “out of the box” with performance and price similar to the RTX 3060although Intel assures that improving the drivers will achieve the performance of the RTX 3070. A goal that seems too ambitious, just using software.
The Intel ARC A750 yes it will have a performance between the RTX 3050 and RTX 3060, at a lower price, although it has not yet been confirmed. Neither is its release date.
Intel ARC A770 shines in ray tracing and DLSS
In the presentation, Intel has shown graphics where it stands out the good performance used ray racing or ray tracing, and especially with its alternative to NVIDIA’s DLSS upscaling technology, called rescaled Intel XeSS.
It seems that modern games built with Vulkan and DirectX 12 run very well, at the level of RTX 3060 or better. But the performance with older games using DirectX 10 or 11 is not clear at all. Still Intel continues to work day and night to improve driver compatibility.
Both graphics cards connect via PCIe 4.0so you will need a motherboard with this connector.
In this table you can see the technical characteristics of Intel ARC A770 and A750. There are also ranges 3 and 5, which for now are still in limbo:
The model Intel ARC A750 It has 28 Xe Cores, ray tracing units, and XMX Engines. It reaches 2,050 Hz, with a bandwidth of 512 GB/sg and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory. It should compete with an RTX 3060, for less than 300 dollars.
The most powerful model is Intel ARX A770, with 32 Xe Cores and ray tracing units, 512 XMX Engines, and a maximum speed of 2,100 Mhz. It is sold with 16 GB of RAM and has a bandwidth of 560 Gb/s. Its performance should be close to NVIDIA’s RTX 3070. Although for now, as we have said, compete with the RTX 3060.
Intel ARC A770 will go on sale on October 12 °by $329. There is no data on its release for sale in Spain. It will be very difficult to compete, because NVIDIA has already announced cheaper RTX 3060 cards to compete with these Intel ARC, and has also presented the new RTX 4000, much more powerful than the current generation.