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

[RandallFlagg]

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.

I think Intel already marked off $300M+ related to the GPU inventory in last quarter. That's probably what they expect to lose over the next couple of quarters selling these cards.

I get the 6800 comparisons too, really an A770 looks like a higher clocked (both GPU and mem) version of a 6800 in terms of the hardware. 256 bit bus, 16GB, Cores/TMU/ROP count is slightly higher than 6800, and about 15% higher clocks on GPU and memory. It's actually a notch better than the 6800 on paper, with just a little bit more of everything.

So this is not low end hardware, it's just crappy unoptimized drivers.

This basically means they are selling an otherwise $600 piece of hardware for $349. I don't think there is any margin there.

My guess is the $349 represents a break-even cost to manufacture the card including the GPU, and they are probably eating the development and support costs which would normally be part of the final price.

Reviews tomorrow :

Intel Arc A770 reviews go live tomorrow, Raja Koduri arrives on set

Raja Koduri, ex-RTG boss (the guy behind AMD's infamous Vega GPU) and now Intel AXG boss, sits with Ryan Shrout and Tom Peterson to discuss Intel Arc GPUs.

www.tweaktown.com

 

[AusWolf]

I think Intel already marked off $300M+ related to the GPU inventory in last quarter. That's probably what they expect to lose over the next couple of quarters selling these cards.

I get the 6800 comparisons too, really an A770 looks like a higher clocked (both GPU and mem) version of a 6800 in terms of the hardware. 256 bit bus, 16GB, Cores/TMU/ROP count is slightly higher than 6800, and about 15% higher clocks on GPU and memory. It's actually a notch better than the 6800 on paper, with just a little bit more of everything.

So this is not low end hardware, it's just crappy unoptimized drivers.

This basically means they are selling an otherwise $600 piece of hardware for $349. I don't think there is any margin there.

My guess is the $349 represents a break-even cost to manufacture the card including the GPU, and they are probably eating the development and support costs which would normally be part of the final price.

Reviews tomorrow :

Intel Arc A770 reviews go live tomorrow, Raja Koduri arrives on set

Raja Koduri, ex-RTG boss (the guy behind AMD's infamous Vega GPU) and now Intel AXG boss, sits with Ryan Shrout and Tom Peterson to discuss Intel Arc GPUs.

www.tweaktown.com

That's an interesting thought. Considering that the 1024-shader A380 performs similarly to the 768-shader RX 6400, could we say that the A770 should perform at least on RX 6700 levels?

 

[Kovoet]

Well 6 more days and the more I read up on it the more I want the A770. Remembering the drivers wool only get better and the price of it is excellent. Nvidia prices are not going down and with the likes of EVGA pulling it seems I am going to make the right choice, only time will tell

 

[RandallFlagg]

Hm..

 

[Kovoet]

Nothing in the UK. I was going to get one today

 

[RandallFlagg]

Not sure if these are selling fast or just very low supply.

 

[shovenose]

Disappointing they didn’t offer the 16gb version for 329

 

[AnotherReader]

Disappointing they didn’t offer the 16gb version for 329

It's only 20 dollars more; given the large die and amount of RAM, it is priced low even relative to AMD's offerings. Of course, Intel needs to compete on price as they are new to this market.

 

[trsttte]

It's only 20 dollars more; given the large die and amount of RAM, it is priced low even relative to AMD's offerings. Of course, Intel needs to compete on price as they are new to this market.

If you're doing compute that takes advantage of large size vram it's pretty much a steal, pretty good bargain. Of course you'll need to endure some bugs but if you're doing gpu compute you probably know how to handle some annoyances