Saturday, October 23rd 2021
Intel Xe-HPG Arc Alchemist Graphics Card Alleged Pricing Points Towards $650-$825 Range
Intel's Arc Alchemist lineup of graphics cards, based on Xe-HPG GPU configuration, is nearing the launch. With the current situation with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs outputting graphics card prices over the default MSRP, we wonder how Intel would place pricing of its upcoming GPUs and fit inside the market. And today, we got the first round of speculations based on Intel's Arc Alchemist GPU giveaway called Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt. There are two principal bundles: one worth $900 that includes Intel Arc merchandise, Xbox Game Pass PC for six months, Intel Premium Arc Alchemist graphics card, and one worth $700 that consists of three months of Xbox Game Pass PC, Intel Arc merchandise, and Intel Performance Arc Alchemist graphics card.
According to some preliminary calculations from Tom's Hardware, we assume that with the $900 bundle containing one Premium Arc Alchemist GPU and other prizes, the card will cost as much as $825 when all things get removed. Going down the ladder, Intel has paired a bundle worth $700 with a Performance Arc GPU, which is roughly worth $650 on its own. It indicates that the two Intel Performance and Premium Arch Alchemist graphics cards are respectfully worth $650 and $825. What will the final pricing look like? We don't know. However, we assume that it could be very similar to this. For more information we have to wait for the official launch.
Sources:
Reddit, via Tom's Hardware
According to some preliminary calculations from Tom's Hardware, we assume that with the $900 bundle containing one Premium Arc Alchemist GPU and other prizes, the card will cost as much as $825 when all things get removed. Going down the ladder, Intel has paired a bundle worth $700 with a Performance Arc GPU, which is roughly worth $650 on its own. It indicates that the two Intel Performance and Premium Arch Alchemist graphics cards are respectfully worth $650 and $825. What will the final pricing look like? We don't know. However, we assume that it could be very similar to this. For more information we have to wait for the official launch.
128 Comments on Intel Xe-HPG Arc Alchemist Graphics Card Alleged Pricing Points Towards $650-$825 Range
I'll laugh when people start to justify sub 150mm2 "entry" dies being sold at $400+ USD MSRP. The market is making Apple of all companies look like a value company. It's mind boggling.
Now they are taking the android approach with big.little cores because they still cannot get a better process just to say to the world how they are innovating
while doing something which has already been done in the past.
All these prices... We already knew they would be steep and a lot of us already know that the GPUs won't be good enough for any price.
NEVER will I buy their graphics cards.
TSMC Alleges Some Customers Are Hoarding Chips Creating Artificial Shortages
Good job Amd,Nvidia, Intel and others.While some fanboys here fight about how one is better than the other they are laughing and ripping us off, they will never give up this shortages thing.
It only holds value due to it's scarcity.
I pray my card will have a long long life.
Talking specifically about that article were TSMC head mentions stockpiling, he clearly mentions they don't know where it's happening in the supply chain (i mean of course they have some ideas), so any number of parts or different suppliers might be playing the market here - and I mean any supplier, mosfets, diodes, controllers of any type, all that shit needs to be fabbed and packaged somewhere. Processor core dies are far from the only thing in short supply even if they're indeed one of the hardest to manufacture.
I had several of their integrated ones and always had problems with them.
Why should with discrete be any better, if anything, it should be worse.
Regarding prices, everything tech nowadays is 100 percent more and above,
if someone has to bite the bullet and buy a graphics card because either what they have is dead or nearing end of life,
they will go with AMD or Nvidia.
Why buy something from first generation of GPUs when you have the option to buy something that's been refining for years?
I've gotten to the point where I don't even get excited about new games since I'll probably never going to be able to buy let alone afford to buy the hardware to play those new games. Mark my words, if these graphics card shortages end up lasting much longer this is going to affect the gaming industry in the sense that game developers are going to stop investing as much money into making games since who's going to have the hardware to play them. Get ready folks, if you hated DLC then get ready for even more along with even more loot boxes.
RIP PC gaming, it was nice while it lasted.
As much as this might sounds like heresy, I hope that game companies start taking Apple with their M1 Pro and M1 Max chips seriously. At least they have graphics capabilities built into the chip that's at least worth more than a bucket of warm spit. Yes, AMD does have APUs but performance when compared to what the M1 Pro and M1 Max has they're lackluster at best. Come on AMD, you guys need to do better already; you guys might be the only thing that saves PC gaming as we know it.
New hardware is cool, we might not be able to get it or afford it at first but give it a year or two and will be able to rip the benefits without paying for the early adopter tax
Never ever question that !
Difficult times will pass but PC'S will live on!
This is stupid, we all see it.
Talking specifically of Apple, they are usually masters at managing a stable supply chain but are now also feeling the burn of shortages (just as toyota, they were also resisting relatively well but started feeling the shortages a month or two ago), and where fabbing their SoCs is concerned they are happily overpaying for most of the capacity of a node that is not yet very mature (5nm) because their gross margin is huge either way with the prices they charge for their stupid iPhones and everything else.
NOTHING WITH GPU ARE GONNA CHANGE UNLESS WE GET THE SOCIALIST LEFT AND SLEEPY JOE BIDEN OUT AND TRUMP BACK IN ADN HE FIX THE F***ING SUPPL CHAIN TAHT IS SO F***KED RIGHT NOW!!
F**K THE DEEPSTATE
On MSRP of $500 if all the expenses to make and put a card on the shelf is $400 (probable more) they might make $100(probable less), but when selling the same card $1000 they are not doubling the profit $1000 - $400 = $600 vs $100 their profit goes up 6 times.
So can somebody tell me what would their incentive be to rush more cards on the market ???
If they keep this up long enough they'll turn around and find their core market for consumer GPUs is gone, moved on. This mostly applies to AMD and Nvidia, but without decent GPUs available the desktop market is likely to crater which would affect Intel and AMD.
It's entirely possible this will push people in unforeseen directions. For example, tablet sales have made a comeback (YoY +12% in 2021 on top of a +19.5% growth in 2020). You can play games on an AppleTV. Oculus Quest 2 is selling gangbusters.
Look at it this way. For the $1000 a 3060 Ti commands today, you can buy an iPad with the A13, an Apple TV, and an Oculus Quest 2. You can even get the upgraded storage on one or two of those for that.