Packaging

The Card

The Intel Arc A750 graphics card looks stunning, thanks to a clean design language that reminds of what Apple is offering with their iPhones. Visually, there's almost no difference between Arc A770 and Arc A750, except for the printed name of course. The only difference is that the A770 has a small RGB connector near its power inputs, the A750 does not have any RGB lighting.


Dimensions of the card are 27.0 x 11.5 cm, and it weighs 1087 g.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.0 ports and one HDMI 2.1.


The card has one 8-pin and one 6-pin power input. This configuration is rated for up to 300 W of power draw. If you look closely, you'll notice that the connectors are slightly mismatched in color. We confirmed with Intel that this will be fixed on future production runs, but some cards will make it in the retail market.

Teardown

Taking the Arc A750 apart is slightly more complicated than cards from other brands. While there's solid engineering everywhere, I suspect that the limited experience Intel has with building such cards is why some things are solved in a slightly less efficient way.

First, you have to take off the "backplate", which is a thin metal plate that's glued to the frame on the back of the card. Yup, glue isn't good for enthusiast end-users, I would have preferred a design with screws, as that's much easier to maintain. If you heat up the backplate with a heat gun, the glue will get soft and easy to remove.


Once the backplate is removed there's a bunch of Torx screws to take out, nothing out of the ordinary. Here we've encountered some sort of cooling plate that sits on top of the VRMs on the back—except there are no VRMs on this side, just an empty silkscreen on the PCB.


Now you can separate the cooler from the PCB assembly.


This metal reinforcement brace covers the PCB and helps strengthen it against bending.


Intel's cooler uses a large vapor-chamber baseplate paired with five heatpipes.