After just recently revealing its13th generation of CPUs, Intel has now also said that its flagship Arc A770 GPU will be available on 12 October.
Competitively priced at just $329, the Intel Arc A770 is apparently set to compete nicely with Nvidia’s RTX 3060 card. Though Nvidia might well have just revealedits new RTX 40-series, this is still a bold aim and potentially a great option for PC gamers looking for an affordable GPU for theirgaming rig.
During theIntel Innovation event, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger spoke about the pricing of graphics cards and what Intel is planning to do about it:
“We’ve been seeing that for a long time the price of GPUs is right in this $200–$300 range, but what’s happened in the last few years is that they’ve gotten super expensive…You should be frustrated because you are losing out as the gaming community, and today we’re fixing that.”
Thecompany has also saidthat it is “committed to bringing back price and performance balance for gamers with the Intel Arc graphics family.”
So we’re expecting to see more competitively priced GPUs in the future. This should provide some interesting results for gamers who have beenstruggling with scalpersdriving up prices and thelack of graphics card availabilityin the last couple of years.
Intel claims that Intel Arc A770 GPU will provide “compelling” content creation and 1440p gaming performance. Specs-wise it’s set to include up to 16GB of GDDR6 memory, a 2100MHz clock speed and 32 Xe cores.
We’ve already seen what some of that power can deliver in terms of performance:
It’s even claimed that the Arc A770 GPU will outperform the Nvidia RTX 3060 at 1080p in someray traced gamesand in some cases may also perform as well as the RTX 3070 at 1440p as well. This will all be supported byIntel’s Xe Super Sampling technologytoo, so we’re excited to see what happens there.
