Intel didn’t ship its Arc Alchemist A700 series gaming-focused discrete graphics cards for desktop computers this summer, but at least it will ship to winners of its Scavenger Hunt promotion in early 2021. The company is ready to ship these boards to the general public.
Colleague Evan Stenger murmured (opens in new tab) Late Friday night when Intel was about to ship Arc graphics cards to Scavenger Hunt winners who entered the contest in early 2021. The screenshot he posted asks for the winner’s address. We can speculate that this could be an Arc A770 Limited Edition board from Intel, but we’ll have to learn from our lucky winner exactly what they got.
Intel had planned to start shipping Arc Alchemist graphics cards for demanding gamers in the summer. Unfortunately, the company failed to live up to this promise. Still, assuming Intel is shipping cards to gamers enthusiastic enough to enter the Scavenger Hunt contest, this would indicate that the company is indeed ready to ship Arc boards commercially. There is a possibility that We don’t know exactly what Intel plans to send the winner, but let me remind you what Intel is getting.
The Arc A770 is the company’s top model based on the ACM-G10 graphics processor with 32 Xe cores (equivalent to 4,096 stream processors) running at 2,100 MHz and features 8GB of peak bandwidth Or with 16GB of GDDR6 memory. 560GBps. The Arc A750, on the other hand, sits below the flagship, running at 2,050 MHz and featuring 28 Xe cores (equivalent to 3,584 shading units) connected to 8 GB of GDDR6 memory with a peak bandwidth of 512 GBps. It features a cut-down ACM-G10 GPU. Find out which one is in our list of the best graphics cards available today.
We now know that Intel is shipping some of its graphics boards to the lucky winners of the scavenger hunt, but we have no idea when these (and other) boards will be available and what they will cost. I don’t know yet.
