Intel Arc A770 Launched at USD $329, Available from October 12

btarunr · Sep 27, 2022

Intel today announced the pricing for the Arc A770 Limited Edition desktop graphics card, and it is set at USD $329, offering a class of performance comparable to NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards around the $400-range. The A770 is a full-feature DirectX 12 Ultimate-capable graphics cards. The Arc A770 Limited Edition maxes out the 6 nm ACM-G10 silicon, features 32 Xe Cores, 512 XMX matrix processors, and 512 EUs, which work out to 4,096 unified shaders. The card comes with 8 GB or 16 GB of 17.5 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit wide memory bus. $329 could be the starting price of the A770 for its 8 GB model. Available from October 12.

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Space Lynx · Sep 27, 2022

and it can match rx 6800 in several games? if yes then I may do an all Intel system after all. just waiting on @W1zzard review first to make sure the drivers work for lots of games, not just a few.

Space Lynx · Sep 27, 2022

P4-630 said:
Actually I thought it was just one on sale....

I don't know what you mean by this, limited stock? We will have to wait until October 12th to find out.

P4-630 · Sep 27, 2022

CallandorWoT said:
I don't know what you mean by this, limited stock? We will have to wait until October 12th to find out.

Never mind deleted my posts haha.

RandallFlagg · Sep 27, 2022

CallandorWoT said:
and it can match rx 6800 in several games? if yes then I may do an all Intel system after all. just waiting on @W1zzard review first to make sure the drivers work for lots of games, not just a few.

Me too. I was hoping for a price like that for a card that will likely improve significantly over time as drivers are tweaked.

I'll be getting one if its price is $329 and not marked up / scalped to death. And assuming the 6700 XT and 3060 Ti don't fall to parity between now and then.

ZoneDymo · Sep 27, 2022

alright, we got a pricepoint, now lets get some reviews

R0H1T · Sep 27, 2022

The difference between 8/16 GB models is only the VRAM :wtf:

ARF · Sep 27, 2022

R0H1T said:
The difference between 8/16 GB models is only the VRAM

lol. this is how it has always been

R0H1T · Sep 27, 2022

Not in recent times from Nvidia, or maybe even AMD. The bigger point is that at "just" $329 they'll probably be selling it at a loss.

ARF · Sep 27, 2022

R0H1T said:
Not in recent times from Nvidia, or maybe even AMD. The bigger point is that at "just" $329 they'll probably be selling it at a loss.

Or at a modest margin of "only" 20ish percents

Nvidia = radical greed.

R0H1T · Sep 27, 2022

I seriously doubt the net(?) margins would be 20% but I guess we'll never know. If it were fabbed at Intel it would've been somewhat believable, on TSMC I'm still betting on at least a marginal loss at these prices.

80-watt Hamster · Sep 27, 2022

I've got two Benjamins earmarked for when ARC cards in that price bracket show up.

RandallFlagg · Sep 27, 2022

Man Intel is back. Not just this ARC at $329 but 5.4Ghz 13700K at $409. I hope these prices are real on launch day. It's time to spend some money!

ZoneDymo · Sep 27, 2022

RandallFlagg said:
Man Intel is back. Not just this ARC at $329 but 5.4Ghz 13700K at $409. I hope these prices are real on launch day. It's time to spend some money!

I think 400 dollars for a 13700k isnt that great a price tbh, and with the A770 you really want the 16gb version.

ARF · Sep 27, 2022

ZoneDymo said:
I think 400 dollars for a 13700k isnt that great a price tbh

Why? if it is on par with the 550$-Ryzen 9 7900X?
It looks like Intel has just declared a price war against AMD.

80-watt Hamster · Sep 27, 2022

ZoneDymo said:
I think 400 dollars for a 13700k isnt that great a price tbh,

No? The $400 Ryzen 7700X is basically a match for the 12700K, and if the claimed improvements for 13th gen hold, then the 13700K will have the superior perf/$, if not necessarily perf/W.

ZoneDymo said:
and with the A770 you really want the 16gb version.

Not sure how you can know this already. I think it'll largely depend on how much extra the 16GB version costs.

trsttte · Sep 27, 2022

Finally!

Aretak · Sep 27, 2022

CallandorWoT said:
and it can match rx 6800 in several games?

Where are you getting that information from? Intel's own benchmarks from a few weeks ago had it slower than a 3060 Ti. Hell, it was slower than a regular 3060 in 4/17 titles, and those were cherrypicked DX12 games. Arc's performance in DX11 or older is disastrous. Combine that with the buggy, unfinished drivers and I can't see where any enthusiasm is coming from for this product. It looks like a complete lemon.

ZetZet · Sep 27, 2022

CallandorWoT said:
and it can match rx 6800 in several games? if yes then I may do an all Intel system after all. just waiting on @W1zzard review first to make sure the drivers work for lots of games, not just a few.

The article says it matches 400 USD AMD/Nvidia tier. So RX 6700 XT at best (probably more like 6650XT, because of driver issues). And we also don't know just how limited this limited edition is.

Space Lynx · Sep 27, 2022

ZetZet said:
The article says it matches 400 USD AMD/Nvidia tier. So RX 6700 XT at best (probably more like 6650XT, because of driver issues). And we also don't know just how limited this limited edition is.

sorry I thought it read $400-600 range. not sure why I read it that way... guess deep down I am desperate for someone to replace $1600 Nvidia. lol

AusWolf · Sep 27, 2022

Wow, nice!

All I need now is RDNA 3 to be out, and I can finally decide if I'll buy an A770 for an all-intel system, or go with a platform upgrade for full AMD. My guts say AMD, but my wallet says Intel. $329 plus some change for the 16 GB version is really not a lot nowadays.

Berfs1 · Sep 27, 2022

R0H1T said:
Not in recent times from Nvidia, or maybe even AMD. The bigger point is that at "just" $329 they'll probably be selling it at a loss.

In recent times um, NVIDIA made a GPU that had a 2 thousand dollar MSRP, and was still able to profit after lowering the price to like 1000$. NVIDIA... has huge profit margins. I highly doubt Intel is selling at a loss, NVIDIA is just selling at massive profit margins (and I really wish other people would see that too). I'm not buying NVIDIA anymore after EVGA quit, I will consider Intel or AMD once my 2080 Ti dies.

dj-electric · Sep 27, 2022

This needs to be convincingly better than an RX 6600 XT.
Godspeed, i guess

ZoneDymo · Sep 27, 2022

ARF said:
Why? if it is on par with the 550$-Ryzen 9 7900X?
It looks like Intel has just declared a price war against AMD.

On par in what? gaming? because you dont really buy a 7900X for gaming, you get it for production.

80-watt Hamster said:
No? The $400 Ryzen 7700X is basically a match for the 12700K, and if the claimed improvements for 13th gen hold, then the 13700K will have the superior perf/$, if not necessarily perf/W.

Not sure how you can know this already. I think it'll largely depend on how much extra the 16GB version costs.

And for both of you, personally I dont care about comparisions for this, imagine one cpu was 50000 dollars and the other was 55000 dollars and you saying that the 50000 dollar price is great because its on par.....no both would be awful.

I dont care about the comparison to measure value for money/innovation, it can be judged on its own,
I think on its own 400 dollars is not "great" for a 13700k, its ok-ish, its meh, if it were say 360 dollar then maybe I would agree.

as for Arc, buying an 8gb card in 2022 for the future seems a mistake, something you will regret later on, Vram is an easy thing for devs to make use off for higher res textures as well as RT so going for 8gb's now.....heck idk why that sku even exits tbh.

ARF · Sep 27, 2022

ZoneDymo said:
On par in what? gaming? because you dont really buy a 7900X for gaming, you get it for production.

On par in production and faster in gaming.

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