Wednesday, February 1st 2023
Intel Confirms Arc A750 Price Cut, Claims Big Performance Gains as Drivers Mature
Intel confirmed the price-cut for its Arc "Alchemist" A750 performance-segment graphics card that we earlier reported. The company also gave us a quick heads-up of just how far along the Arc 7-series graphics cards have matured in performance and features, over the months of driver updates. In particular, the company focused on how performance of the A750 is about 43% higher than it was at launch in DirectX 9 titles—an API the Xe-HPG graphics architecture doesn't natively support.
Intel relies on a combination of D3D9 to D3D12 API translation, and game-specific optimization at the driver-level, to play DirectX 9 games. The company has been optimizing popular DirectX 9 titles over the past several months, and put out performance gains in a new presentation. Since launch, Intel has added XeSS support to over 35 games, and promises to expand the list. With its starting price now at $249, one can expect custom-design boards, such as the ASRock A750 Challenger OC and the GUNNIR A750 Photon, to be priced at or under $300, although the reference-design Intel A750 Limited Edition cards can be found in some places. Intel also announced that it is bundling "Nightingale," and "The Settlers: New Allies" with pre-built desktops that combine 12th Gen or 13th Gen Core desktop processors and Arc A750 graphics cards.
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Intel relies on a combination of D3D9 to D3D12 API translation, and game-specific optimization at the driver-level, to play DirectX 9 games. The company has been optimizing popular DirectX 9 titles over the past several months, and put out performance gains in a new presentation. Since launch, Intel has added XeSS support to over 35 games, and promises to expand the list. With its starting price now at $249, one can expect custom-design boards, such as the ASRock A750 Challenger OC and the GUNNIR A750 Photon, to be priced at or under $300, although the reference-design Intel A750 Limited Edition cards can be found in some places. Intel also announced that it is bundling "Nightingale," and "The Settlers: New Allies" with pre-built desktops that combine 12th Gen or 13th Gen Core desktop processors and Arc A750 graphics cards.
63 Comments on Intel Confirms Arc A750 Price Cut, Claims Big Performance Gains as Drivers Mature
What about older games that don't use DX, or an older iteration of DX?
£250 for 8 gigs and performing reasonably at 1080p.Would you be willing to do a lesser known DX9 game they have not included in their featured list? I can gift you a steam key for it. Compare it on old and new drivers.