Ahead of bringing its Arc desktop GPUs to everybody in a few weeks, Intel has revealed extra particulars about what to anticipate from the graphics playing cards by way of specs and efficiency. The A770, which begins at $329, may have 32 Xe cores, 32 ray-tracing models and a 2,100MHz graphics clock. In phrases of RAM, it is available in 8GB and 16GB configurations, with as much as 512 Gb/s and 560 Gb/s of reminiscence bandwidth, respectively.
As for the A750, which Intel simply introduced will begin at $289, that has 28 Xe cores, 28 ray-tracing models, a 2,050MHz graphics clock, 8GB of reminiscence and as much as 512 Gb/s of reminiscence bandwidth. All three playing cards, which might be out there on October twelfth, have 225W of whole energy.
Intel claims that, based mostly on benchmarking checks, you will get extra bang to your buck with these playing cards than NVIDIA’s mid-range GeForce RTX 3060. It says the A770 provides 42 p.c higher efficiency per greenback vs. the RTX 3060, whereas the A750 is seemingly 53 p.c higher on a per-dollar foundation.
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It claims that, in a lot of the video games it examined, the A770’s 16GB configuration delivered higher ray-tracing efficiency than the equally priced RTX 3060 (which, in equity, debuted again in early 2021). When it got here to Fortnite, Intel says the A770 had 1.56 occasions the ray-tracing efficiency of the RTX 3060.
Of course Intel goes to tout its GPUs as being higher than the competitors. We’ll have to attend for the outcomes of our personal Intel Arc benchmarking checks to have a real sense of the efficiency.
In any case, it is wanting like NVIDIA is about to have extra competitors on the GPU entrance. Only this time, it is from a longtime model that simply so occurs to be behind most of the processors powering the PCs that may very properly have used NVIDIA playing cards in any other case.