Intel Arc A750 Price Drops to as Low as $229

[btarunr]

The Intel Arc A750 "Alchemist" graphics card now starts at a mouth-watering price of just $229, a price that puts it 7% below the MSRP Intel Graphics set for the SKU, with the reference-design A750 being sold at $250. The new low price is commanded by a custom-design ASRock Arc A750 Challenger, a card that combines Intel's second-fastest GPU with a simple 2-slot, twin-fan cooling solution. Intel has been busy with Game On driver updates for the Arc A-series GPUs, besides a recent massive update to the cards' DirectX 11 and DirectX 9 gaming performance. The company claims that the A750 and A770 offer tremendous performance/Dollar gains over the competing NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 in the mainstream segment, aimed at people who play at 1080p and 1440p. Meanwhile the dark horse in this segment is the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, with similar real-world prices to the A750, but performance that trades blows with the RTX 3060.



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[Vayra86]

Mouth-watering indeed, but still not competitive to cards released 2 years ago

Keep at it though

 

[GunShot]

If/when these Arc series, especially the A770 series, drops below $180, some users that desire to improve their digital 4K media library may want to give this -> article a read.

 

[Haile Selassie]

Best bang for a buck videocard at the moment?

 

[sLowEnd]

Not a bad price. On Newegg it's sitting at the same price as the regular RX 6600, which the A750 handily beats the majority of the time in new games.

 

[oobymach]

For a first gen card it is very good. Nvidia and AMD have been making them for years and this is Intels first try and it's good. The recent driver update increased performance like 45% or something, so even though it's not 4k with Raytracing good it's still actually able to compete with industry giants and for less $.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

A750 @ $200 and A770 @ $229, that would be sexy.

 

[ZoneDymo]

A750 @ $200 and A770 @ $229, that would be sexy.

^This, but personally I would want to wait 1 generation, they are bound to have learned a LOT from this first release.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

I won't give Intel any money.

 

[Bomby569]

considering the 3060 goes for 350$, this is a no brainer if you want a new card

 

[unwind-protect]

Just wish the Linux drivers were up to par. Given the investments Intel makes into Linux it probably won't take too long, but certainly it is not in parallel to the Windows drivers.

Also need a 1-slot variant.

 

[lemonadesoda]

Intel - get these prices down to $150 for ARC 750 and $199 for ARC 770. Get some traction in the market. You are suboptimal as a GPU brand - and you need to price accordingly to foster interest. Your drivers aren't mature, and your performance per watt isnt great. So you have to win a big margin in performance per dollar. Just do it.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Just wish the Linux drivers were up to par. Given the investments Intel makes into Linux it probably won't take too long, but certainly it is not in parallel to the Windows drivers.

Also need a 1-slot variant.

A 1 slot A750 isnt happening, nobody makes those hotboxes anymore.

Intel's linux performance is comparable to the same GPUs as windows. Phoronix had some bugs, but that was 6 months ago. The majority of those are likely fixed today.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

^This, but personally I would want to wait 1 generation, they are bound to have learned a LOT from this first release.

I was very impressed with the ARC raytracing performance, they are on to something good here, I just hope they don't get discouraged by their sales numbers. I am very curious to see what they bring out with their next-generation GPUs while they keep their MSRP reasonable, unlike nVidia and AMD which have lost the plot.

 

[unwind-protect]

A 1 slot A750 isnt happening, nobody makes those hotboxes anymore.

Intel's linux performance is comparable to the same GPUs as windows. Phoronix had some bugs, but that was 6 months ago. The majority of those are likely fixed today.

Not quite that rosy: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-march23

I mean they work for native apps, OpenGL and so on. But they are way behind NVidia's binary drivers and ATI's open source drivers when it comes to running 3D applications under Wine.

 

[zlobby]

Still 400% over its real value.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Oh, how I wish nVidia would re-work their control panel/driver, I am sick of the thing, especially when you change settings under 3D Management, always have to start at the bottom and work up otherwise you screw yourself.

 

[Prima.Vera]

How does this compare price/performance wise with the likes from nGreedia and AMD?

 

[prtskg]

Not quite that rosy: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-march23

I mean they work for native apps, OpenGL and so on. But they are way behind NVidia's binary drivers and ATI's open source drivers when it comes to running 3D applications under Wine.

Intel is usually good in open source software so by next generation I think its GPU support should mature.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Not even if it were free would I deal with intel drivers.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Not quite that rosy: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-march23

I mean they work for native apps, OpenGL and so on. But they are way behind NVidia's binary drivers and ATI's open source drivers when it comes to running 3D applications under Wine.

Well that's a shame. Guess I'll have to stick to AMD for now. I'm surprised the open source drivers are having that much of an issue keeping up with windows.

 

[HisDivineOrder]

Let's keep hope alive that Intel sticks around long enough to be the competitor to Nvidia that AMD should be. Y'know, one that ships lots of product and competes on price.

 

[unwind-protect]

Well that's a shame. Guess I'll have to stick to AMD for now. I'm surprised the open source drivers are having that much of an issue keeping up with windows.

Well, I assume Intel has all driver developers on Windows for now, they needed to play catchup badly. It is also my understanding that AMD mainly contributes documentation and Intel mainly code for Open Source drivers. The former is preferable but takes longer.

 

[Tom Yum]

I won't give Intel any money.

Think of it this way, you are probably taking money from Intel if you buy one at this point. The Alchemist line uses a 406mm2 TSMC N6 die which still isn't cheap to manufacture (the RX 6600 uses a 237mm2 TSMC N7 die which would cost less than half to manufacture). It also uses a 256b memory bus (RX6600 uses 128b), so the board cost is higher as well.

I doubt these prices are sustainable and smell a bit like a fire sale ahead of an announcement rather than a renewed pitch for market share.

 

[mechtech]

Can't really find either the 6600/XT/50XT or ARC in stock in Canada for those prices @ current exchange rate.