Intel is entering the GPU market with the new Arc A770 graphics card priced at $329 and scheduled for an October release date.
Over a year after Intel announced it would start making graphics cards and delayed it, the CPU has officially announced that it will enter the desktop GPU market next month with the Arc A770 graphics card.
Intel's Arc A770 features 16GB of GDDR6 memory, 32 Xe cores, a 21000MHz clock, and uses Intel's Xe graphics architecture. The A770 will also support XeSS , Intel's supersampling technology that will compete with AMD 's FidelityFX Super Resolution ( FSR ) and Nvidia 's DLSS . Several games that have been confirmed to support XeSS include Ghostwire: Tokyo, Death Stranding: Director's Cut, and Gotham Knights.
The Intel Arc A770 will be available starting October 12th — the same day that Nvidia 's new flagship GPU , the RTX 4090 , will be available to consumers. While the Arc A770 isn't a GPU that Intel is touting as a replacement for Nvidia's upcoming top-of-the-line GPU, it will serve as competition for Nvidia's more affordable GPUs, the RTX 3060 and RTX 3070 .
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“We’ve seen for a long time that GPUs are priced well in that $200–300 range, but what’s happened in the last few years is they’ve become extremely expensive,” said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. “You should be disappointed as a gaming community, and today we’re fixing that.”
Ahead of the Arc A770 launch , Intel uploaded a video that offered a deep dive into the Arc A series and shared some benchmark results for the Arc A770 and the RTX 3060. The benchmarks show that the Arc 770 outperforms the RTX 3060 in many games running at 1080p with ray tracing enabled. Of course, these benchmarks shouldn't be taken seriously until there are independent reviews of the Arc A770.
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Intel has more GPUs in its Arc Alchemist, like the Arc A750, but the company has yet to announce pricing or release dates for the rest of the first-generation Arc graphics cards.
Source: ign.com
