After a delayed and somewhat meandering start the past few weeks it seems pretty clear that Intel is slowly but surely on its feet, regarding the launch of its Intel Alchemist graphics cards. On the one hand, just a few days ago the arrival of the Arc A750 and A770 was officially announced after several performance tests, which, while not particularly great, are promising. Even Intel points out that Battlemage will significantly outperform Alchemist, but all indications are that as drivers improve, so will this first generation.

From your side as well we have been waiting for the arrival of the entry range for some time, embodied primarily in the Arc A380, whose Asrock model has already been seen at the dealer (although it is currently out of stock), and as we could already imagine, other manufacturers are preparing their models based on this Intel GPU. The most recent example of this can be found in a recent listing on the Eurasia Economic Commission website, which shows no less than four Gigabyte A380 models, with the A310 added to them. They are the following:

• Gigabyte Arc A380 Gaming OC 6GB (GV-IA380GAMING OC-6GD)
• Gigabyte Arc A380 Gaming 6GB (GV-IA380GAMING-6GD)
• Gigabyte Arc A380 WindForce OC 6GB (GV-IA380WF2OC-6GD)
• Gigabyte Arc A380 WindForce 6GB (GV-IA380WF2-6GD)
• Gigabyte Arc A310 WindForce 4GB (GV-IA310WF2-4GD)

In this way we have the first official confirmation of collaboration between Intel and Gigabyte which we’ve been hearing rumors about for a while now and which also reveals some interesting aspects of this Intel GPU and Gigabyte’s plans with it.

The first thing is that despite the fact that we are talking about an entry-level GPU, we can see it Gigabyte considers them quite suitable for gaming, something that has been questioned on some occasions. We can’t expect much performance, of course, remember that we’re talking about a $139.99 card (in the model listed at Newegg) but that these Gigabyte Arc A380s fit into the gaming and WindForce familiestells us that the company’s tests should be promising in this regard.

Even more, two of the listed models will be overclockable, which can increase your performance even more. In the absence of performance tests, if the OC-compatible models are competitively priced and have adequate performance to play without great demands, it is possible that we will find ourselves in front of a new and very interesting option.