Intel has announced that its high-end graphics card model, the Intel Arc A770, will release on October 12th. This GPU will come in two versions (with the only difference being the amount of VRAM or at least that’s what Intel implies).
Intel will offer 8GB and 16GB versions of the Intel Arc A770 graphics cards. The new Intel Arc GPUs will support Intel XeSS (which is now supported by Shadow of the Tomb Raider), and will start at $329. In theory, the 8GB variant will cost $329. Intel has not revealed the price of the 16GB version.
Intel also claimed that the A770 will offer up to 65% better peak performance over its direct competitor in ray tracing. Our guess is that Intel is referring to the RTX3060.
All in all, it’s great news that Intel will be finally launching its first discrete high-end GPU. However, NVIDIA will also release the RTX 4090 on October 12th. So yeah, don’t expect Intel’s GPUs to be able to compete with NVIDIA’s new graphics cards. But hey, at least they will be cheaper.
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Everyone expects A770 to compete against 3060 in RT.
Possibly Intel: we obviously meant 3050 in RT. Or 6600 non XT in RT.
I’m expecting anything.
they already showed it in various benchmarks.
This GPU will be comparable to an entry level Nvidia or AMD nextgen GPU and I doubt Intel will have something more competitive for at least another year. Maybe 2 years. Intel just delayed and delayed getting their GPUs out and now they are way behind Nvidia and AMD.
Then there’s the problem with the drivers and availability of the GPUs that you can actually buy.
Arc is just too little too late. Maybe Intel will improve in the future but I’m skeptical.
Another GPU competitor enter the battle : Always good for all gamers.
That price is too high.
1. You pay for being a free beta tester.
2. Intel drivers are bad.
3. You are buying cat in the bag, the hardware can be bad because of bad drivers and/or Intel can drop the project in few months.
It should be free. In the mean time I’ll stick with my evga gtx 4090ti