Intel Arc A750 and A770 are about to reset their price predictions on October 12th. Intel Arc Alchemist has been in development for years but after delays and misstarts it finally comes into its own with the Arc A770 and A750 launching on his October 12th, the best mid-range graphics cards in the market is firmly aligned with the
Intel provided additional details on what we’ll see when the cards arrive in just a few weeks. Revealed for $329.However Which The A770 that Pat was referring to?
This is the A770 8GB model, and to no one’s surprise, the other Arc A700 series cards are similarly priced aggressively. Only $20 more than 8GB. $20 to double the memory?Yes, take it in a heartbeat even if it probably doesn’t matter that A lot in most games, at least today. But the bigger deal is definitely the Arc A750, with 8GB and a starting price of just $289.
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Intel hasn’t been shy about performance comparisons, coming right up behind Nvidia’s nominal $329 RTX 3060. However, the actual GPU street price for that card still starts at $369. Amazon has PNY RTX 3060 XLR8 $377 (opens in new tab)while Newegg is MSI RTX 3060 Ventus for $369 now only (opens in new tab) (Plus, if you’re in a hurry, we’ll give you a code for 15% off now). This may be the first time the RTX 3060 has fallen below its suggested retail price since it launched in January 2021.
However, even at comparable prices, we think Intel could still have the upper hand. The game he tested at both 1440p high and 1080p ultra. This seems like a reasonable target for midrange hardware.
Intel also provided some ‘big money’ slides showing that the A770 and A750 are up against the RTX 3060, but the problem is the RTX 3060’s ‘current’ price of $418. That’s it. Last month’s card, but GPU prices are currently very volatile and we can find much better prices just a week after Intel collected the data.
As with all manufacturer-provided benchmarks, we cannot guarantee the performance data shown on this slide. Intel tested both cards with a Core i9-12900K, 32GB of memory and an Asus Z690 DDR5 motherboard. We didn’t see raw framerates, but even the budget Arc A750 generally performed well across our test suite.
Intel emphasized testing games that use all three major graphics APIs (DirectX 12, Vulkan, DirectX 11). Games that support DX12 or Vulkan have been tested using that API. For Intel, that generally means better performance. It may not be the case with the RTX 3060, but there are cases where the DX11 is better than his DX12 and Vulkan.
The DX11-only games, unsurprisingly, remain the least performing class overall, with about 10 of the 17 games in that group performing better on the 3060. Meanwhile, the DX12 title showed the Intel Arc A750 leading in 32 of the 43 games tested and the Vulkan game. The A750 he dominated in 6 out of 7 games.
Unlike AMD, Intel clearly isn’t avoiding comparisons in ray tracing games. It also performed in 17 of his games that use ray tracing. Over the past four years, even in areas where Nvidia has traditionally reigned supreme, the Arc A770 was faster in his 13 tests.
Intel also explained how it would be problematic to build the Arc driver using the unified driver as a starting point. We’ve worked hard over the past few months to improve the situation, and it’s starting to pay off. DX12 Optimized titles are games where Intel has specifically delivered targeted performance improvements, while his other DX12 games just use standard code. Over time, more games will begin to fall into the “optimized” category and should perform reasonably well.
Details of the Arc desktop lineup haven’t changed, but it’s nice to see the A580 still waiting in the wings. It won’t launch alongside the A700 card on October 12th, but considering the A750’s $289 price tag, I can’t help but wonder how cheap Intel could be. It can compete with the RTX 3050 and RX 6600, but AMD’s card easily beats the 3050 in its price range.
That brings us to another interesting topic: how will the Arc A750 and A770 perform against AMD? RX 6650 XT starting at $300 (opens in new tab)According to the GPU Benchmark Tier, it’s typically 10-20% faster than the RTX 3060, at least in a standard non-ray tracing test suite. (The 3060 ends up being 25-30% faster on the DXR suite.) I’ll have to do the benchmarks myself as it could be in the near future. This will take place over the next two weeks as we prepare for the retail launch.
There are other considerations as well.Standard apple-to-apple gaming performance is a good starting point, but Nvidia has many A number of games that support DLSS are now available. Very few games currently support XeSS. Intel showed a performance boost of 37% to 2x fps on his XeSS performance mode at 1440p.
tested Shadow of the Tomb Raider There are also several other games (such as Death Stranding) published that support XeSS. We had a few issues with XeSS on the A380, but according to Intel, a lot of that could be due to trying to scale the algorithm down to significantly slower GPUs. We’ll see how it performs on faster Arc GPUs soon.
But now, with DLSS 3 coming up, Nvidia is clearly trying to stay ahead of the competition. That’s not coming to his RTX 3060, though, and who knows when his RTX 40-series competitor to the Arc A770 will arrive (our guess: next spring).
Intel Arc GPUs will be available in just two weeks. We’re looking forward to testing them out and seeing how they hold up against the competition from AMD and Nvidia. Intel almost certainly wouldn’t have priced Arc so low had Arc been ready six months ago, but why not try to stick with the previously rumored pricing? Any concerns about it are now safely dispelled, at least.
As Intel moves from the Alchemist launch to Battlemage, it’s something most of the graphics team is working on right now, reiterating again and again, and hoping for better performance in Arc. looks promising. But for now, we’re looking at AMD RDNA 3 and Nvidia Ada Lovelace. The sooner a battlemage joins the battle, the better.
The full presentation deck can be viewed below. Again, the price of the 3060 could fall by $40 or more during that time, so data on its performance per dollar should be obtained with sound help. And who knows where they’ll be two weeks after Intel’s competing card officially hits the market?
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