A few days ago, Intel announced that its independent graphics Arc A750 and A770 will be officially launched on October 12. More information about these two independent displays is revealed today. At the Innovation event, Intel announced that the flagship A770 will be available on October 12, priced at $329 for the base model (8GB of video memory) and $349 for the limited edition (16GB of video memory), supplied directly by Intel, not AIB/AIC manufacturers.
Today’s news says the A750 graphics card will also be available on October 12. The Arc A750 starts at $289 and offers 8GB of video memory. For those who prefer “bling”, the A750 lacks the LED lighting of the A770 Limited Edition card.
Here are the specs of the A750 and A770 Limited Editions
The Arc A750 and A770 are the most powerful as top stand-alone graphics. And another interesting point revealed in these slides is that Intel is promoting “Ubuntu” as an officially supported operating system alongside Windows 10 and 11.
Intel has deliberately adopted rather aggressive pricing for its Alchemist GPUs. In most of Intel’s comparisons, they compare the Arc Graphics A 7-series GPU to the GeForce RTX 3060.
The Arc A770 competes very well in performance per dollar, at least under Windows for gaming, and we’ll soon see how Arc Graphics fares under Linux.
Intel also talked about Intel Arc Graphics performance for ray tracing. As of earlier this week, the Intel Linux Vulkan driver now exposes support for ray tracing on Mesa 22.3 Git.
Intel continues to vigorously promote XeSS as an alternative to NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR). XeSS was released to GitHub this week, and while it’s advertised as “open source,” the only code so far is examples and headers for interfacing with Windows builds of the provided XeSS binaries. Hopefully Intel will stick with it and fully open source it soon.
