Intel says Arc Alchemist A770 and A750 cards will be released ‘very soon’, confirms additional specs

In a nutshell: Are you excited about the Intel Arc A770 and A750 cards? Probably not, especially in light of the upcoming RTX 4000 and Radeon RX 7000 series. However, Intel’s mid-range products are launching at the same time and “very soon” according to staffers.

With the unimpressive entry-level Arc 3 A380 the only new Intel discrete graphics card available, we’ve been waiting to see what the more powerful Arc A7 series has to offer. There were fears that Intel was again going to miss the deadline with these products: it was said that they would appear in the summer, a season that ends in just a couple of weeks.

But in an interview with Equipment for computer games as well as Digital foundryIntel’s Tom Petersen and Ryan Shrout confirmed that the A770 and A750 will be released “very soon”.

Intel is touting the Arc 7 A770 as a card that can outperform the RTX 3060 in 1080p ray tracing tests, suggesting its performance will be closer to the RTX 3060 Ti, leaving the A750 as an RTX 3060 competitor without the Ti.

Staff have confirmed that custom A770 cards will be available in both 8GB and 16GB, although the limited edition, which is Intel’s reference design, will only be available with 16GB of VRAM. The A750, meanwhile, will only have 8GB of VRAM. Select partner models of AIB cards will be overclocked at the factory for better performance than the reference design.

Our own Steve Walton noted that the Arc 3 A380 requires a Resizeable Base Address Register (ReBAR) to be enabled; otherwise, you can expect a significant framerate drop. Intel says this won’t change with upcoming A7 cards, so those with older systems should probably stay away, but it’s working on a fix in future Arc generations. Intel has also stated that its ACM-G10 GPU used in future cards does not natively support HDMI 2.1 output.

Some of the more compelling features of the A770/750 include full support for Microsoft’s DirectStorage technology, though we’ll have to wait until Forspoken comes out next year to see how useful it is for PC gaming. There’s also Intel’s XeSS scaling technology, which the company says can more than double the frame rate (using performance mode) in some 1440p games.

Intel still hasn’t revealed how much these cards will cost when they launch in “key countries” and not just China. The company has long stressed that they will offer great value for gamers, but with Ampere’s price constantly dropping as Lovelace approaches, it will be interesting to see what impact they have on the market and if Intel delivers on their promise. abandon Ark.