Intel will be launching its long-awaited Arc Alchemist graphics card for desktop PCs “soon,” the company said in an interview, revealing details about its upcoming board.
The first Intel Arc graphics card in years designed for gamers will reportedly be its own Arc A770 Limited Edition Add-in Board (AIB) with 16GB of GDDR6 memory. PC gaming hardware Quoting Intel’s Tom Petersen, Intel Fellow, and the company’s marketing specialist Ryan Shrout: This product co-exists with custom products from their partners with the same graphics processing unit. These custom Arc A770 AIBs come with either 16GB or 8GB of memory as Intel has approved configurations with 8GB of RAM. Additionally, the graphics card manufacturer will also offer an Arc A750 board with 8 GB of his GDDR6.
Intel sees the Arc A770 product as a competitor to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, while the Arc A750 is up against Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060. This is a performance that clearly needs to be put to independent testing. It is a company that re-emphasizes the related thesis.
Some Arc A700 series boards from Intel’s AIB partners are factory overclocked and power limited, so these boards offer higher performance compared to default clocked models. Will these boards be one of the best gaming graphics cards available this fall? Only time will tell.
It’s worth noting that Intel strongly recommends using Arc graphics cards in newer systems that support resizable base address registers (BARs). Without this technology, Intel’s Arc GPU performance can drop by up to 40%. The good news, however, is that Arc graphics processors fully support Microsoft’s DirectStorage technology. So when games using this application programming interface (API) come out, we can expect performance gains on systems with these devices (and compatible SSDs).
Intel’s Arc A770 graphics card obviously won’t compete with AMD’s or Nvidia’s next-gen offerings at high resolutions, but Intel has four XeSS upscaling modes (Performance, Balanced, Quality, and Ultra Quality) that offer decent performance. would like to provide It balances performance and quality and partially compensates for the performance loss at resolutions such as 4K.
Speaking of high-definition output in general, Intel has said that the upcoming ACM-G10 GPU will not support native HDMI 2.1 output. So you’ll need his DisplayPort 2.0 to HDMI 2.1 converter onboard to add a suitable connector to your Arc A700 graphics card. Interestingly, at the moment he seems to only support UHBR 10, even though Intel enabled his DisplayPort 2.0 which supports UHBR 20 in the driver. If this is accurate, this means that Intel’s Arc A700 board doesn’t “natively” support his 8K output and he has to use two of his DisplayPort connections to handle an 8Kp60 monitor. I mean 6Kp60 and 8Kp60 displays aren’t common at all for now, so the lack of DP 2.0 UHBR 20 support is justified, but it’s a bit strange for Intel to abandon one of the potential advantages of GPUs. is.
Intel has been enthusiastic about the performance and features of its upcoming Arc A700 series discrete graphics cards for desktops, but has not revealed another key feature of these boards: their pricing. Bearing in mind that these products are set to launch “soon,” we’ll be revealing everything very soon.
