We’ve been talking for some time now about Intel Arc Alchemist, a generation of dedicated graphics cards that will mark the chip giant’s return to one of the most important and competitive sectors of the tech world. We’ve told you all of his architecture-level keys on previous occasions, and we know they’ll have dedicated hardware to accelerate ray tracing and artificial intelligence.

We also recently saw information that listed the various models that will make up Intel’s Arc Alchemist line, as well as their possible price ranges, and we realized that this next generation of graphics cards could be very competitive price/performance ratioan intuition recently confirmed by Tom Petersen, an engineer at Intel and one of the most important visible faces of the chip giant’s GPU project.

According to Petersen, Intel will offer Arc Alchemist groundbreaking value in the price/performance ratio, to such an extent that it surpasses anything that exists on the market today. What does this mean for users? Well, it is very simple that the selling price of these new graphics cards will be acceptable and that they will offer more performance than expected for these prices.

In this sense, it is important to make it clear that Intel has differentiated itself three performance levels describe the true potential of your graphics cards. At level 1 are DirectX 12 based games optimized for your graphics card, such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider, while at level 2 are Vulkan and DirectX 12 based titles that have less optimization, and finally at level 3 are games that use DirectX 11. To give you an idea of ​​how important this resolution is, Shadow of the Tomb Raider clocked in at 39 FPS running in DirectX 11 on an Intel Arc Alchemist A770, while it hit 80 FPS in DirectX 12. All tests were performed at 1440p.

To fine-tune the price of your new charts, Intel will be based on level 3, something that helps us better understand why Petersen said he was talking about “breakthrough value for money”. This has given me a lot to think about and I honestly think the price of the Intel Arc Alchemist A770 is likely to end less than 400 euros. If this is true and if its performance is similar or higher than the GeForce RTX 3070, it will happen the best graphics card in its category.

We are waiting for more performance tests to draw more precise conclusions, as we still have rather scarce information in this regard at the moment. In the final part of the attached video, we can see that Linus Tech Tips also performed overclocking tests. The Intel Arc Alchemist A770 achieves 2.5 GHz at stock frequencies with a consumption of 190 wattsa figure that rises to 285 watts when overclocked.

Intel Arc Alchemist A770 to take on GeForce RTX 3070 and Intel Arc Alchemist A750 to take on GeForce RTX 3060

And the first performance data shared by Intel leaves us with very good feelings, because as we can see in the attached graph, the Intel Arc Alchemist A750 can outperform the GeForce RTX 3060 in some of the most important games on the market, including the popular and demanding Cyberpunk . With that data on the table, it seems that the Intel Arc Alchemist A750 would be more on par with the Radeon RX 6600 XTalthough as I said before, we have to wait for more tests.

We still don’t have details on Intel Arc Alchemist’s international release date, and the final price hasn’t been revealed either. Now only the Intel Arc Alchemist A380 is available in Chinaa model that is located in the lower range and offers lower performance than the GeForce GTX 1650.