As we have seen in recent days, Intel seems determined to do so the first deployment of its new dedicated Arc A380 graphics exclusively for Asian territory. Although, as just announced by VideoCardz, who shared Intel’s latest official statement in China, they will eventually not only be installed on some preconfigured OEMs, such as the one recently announced by MSI, but also They will also start selling for direct purchase for consumers.

How we can read in this document «the availability of the Intel Arc A380 graphics processor unit, the first of the Arc A-series 3 desktop graphics products […] will be available from this month through Computer Ecosystem Partners Acer, ASUS, Gigabyte, GUNNIR, HP and MSI desktops. The launch will start in China and will spread throughout the world during the summer«.

The Intel Arc A380 is currently registered in China introductory price 1030 yuanincredibly cheap figure that would be under 150 euros per change.

Very attractive price because, as Intel itself states, the Arc A380 is up to 25% faster than the Radeon RX 6400. And this GPU will be equipped basic clock 2000 MHz and TDP 75 W standard. It comes with 6 GB of GDDR6 memory with a frequency of 16 Gbps. Compared to the ACM-G11 mobile GPUs, the desktop variant gets a full 96-bit memory bus and a higher memory bandwidth of 192 GB / s.

This means that although there are doubts that the A380 is a entry-level GPU, it is still advertised as capable of gaming. Intel has provided a set of game benchmarks that claim that playing at 1080p at 60 FPS at medium settings is possible on popular (less demanding) titles.