Since the corona pandemic, the graphics card market has been on fire. The prices of graphics cards increased so much that the interested buyers were very disappointed. Even an Nvidia card worth 25 thousand Takas was sold for 55 thousand. Intel is going to release its new graphics card on October 12th to increase the competition in the market.
Intel’s Arc A770 will come in two variants of 8GB and 16GB. Among them, the limited edition graphics card will have 16 GB of memory.
ARC A770 features ACM-G10 GPU, which has 32 Xe Cores. There are 512 XMX Engines and 4096 Fe32 Cores.
The GPU will run at 2.GHz clock speed and its 16 GB GDDR6 memory bus are 256 bits, and its clock speed is 17.5 Gbps. Both the 8GB and 16GB variants are rated at 225W TDP.
The Arc, A series graphics cards are built on Intel’s Xe-HPG microarchitecture and use TSMC’s 6nm node.
The Arc A770 is expected to compete directly with AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 XT, 6650 XT, or NVIDIA’s RTX 3050 in this budget range.
However, Intel is hinting through their performance charts that the ARC A770 is going to beat the RTX 3060 pretty well in all sectors. However, after the launch on the 12th, it will be known through the 3rd party reviews how much power this GPU actually has and how much Intel’s claim is true.
In the data released by Intel, the ARC A770 is seen to score 40-45% better than the RTX 3060 in each of the 2spp, 4spp, 6spp, and 8spp tests of 3DMark’s Ray Tracing performance.
In the Ray Tracing benchmark of 17 games at 1080p, the Intel GPU lagged behind by 10-20% in 3 games. In the remaining 13 titles, it was able to provide higher framerates ranging from 4 to 56%.
Nvidia and AMD are currently ruling the graphics card market. If Intel can bring a good quality card to the market on a medium budget, then at the end of the day, it will be the consumers who will benefit.