Intel Arc A770 price it will be quite competitiveaccording to an official announcement that comes to us from the Intel Innovation event, where the chip giant also announced its next-generation Raptor Lake-S desktop processors.

The Intel Arc A770 will be the first desktop graphics card to hit the market under the new generation developed by the company under the leadership of Raja Koduri, which marks its return to this market 20 years later. And that is certainly important. Besides the fact that it comes late, and even its performance level and price, the important thing here is that it increases an alternative to break the NVIDIA and AMD duopoly.

Will it be competitive in benefits? To put the card’s level, Intel claims it’s faster than the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti and AMD RX 6700 XT, while “delivers 65% more peak performance than the ray tracing competition” thanks to the dedicated hardware it contains for raytracing processing via the DirectX Raytracing 1.0, DirectX Raytracing 1.1 and Vulkan RayTracing APIs and its asynchronous process.

Of course, it includes the latest technologies and features, such as XeSS supersampling technology, which aims to compete with NVIDIA’s DLSS. We’ll have to wait for independent tests to judge its actual performance, but if you want to catch up on the tech section, be sure to check out our latest Intel graphics special.

Intel Arc A770, specifications, version and price

There are no surprises. The main characteristics of this card were already known and are preserved for the market launch.

• Graphics core: ACM-G10.
• 32 Xe cores.
• 4,096 shaders.
• Maximum GPU frequency at 2100 MHz.
• 512 XMX fields.
• 32 RTU cores.
• 256-bit memory bus.
• 8-16 GB GDDR6 (560 GB/s bandwidth).
• TBP: 225 watts. They need 2 PCIe 6 and 8 pins for power.

Intel will launch the Arc A770 in two versions with 8 and 16 GB of dedicated memory. It will be available from October 12 at the base price 329 dollars.

A very competitive price for a mid-range graphics card and more, if some previous analyzes are confirmed, which place the card level between NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070. Of course, we will have to wait for higher models. if Intel will be able to compete at high scale. This means that for me it is the most interesting a powerful new player is entering the graphics hardware market.