Intel is ready to enter the market of high-end PC graphics cards and has revealed the specs of its upcoming Intel Arc series cards. The line-up includes the top-of-the-range A770, high-end A750, mid-range A580, and the entry-level A380, following the model spearheaded by Nvidia with the RTX series of cards.
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The Intel Arc A380 has already been launched in China, with the others to launch in October 2022. For now, Intel releases specifications of actual graphics processing units and recommended memory configurations, but graphics cards from the company’s partners may have higher clocks and higher performance.
The Arc A770 will be Intel’s top-of-the-range model based on the ACM-G10 graphics processor with 32 Xe cores (equivalent to 4,096 stream processors) operating at 2,100 MHz and equipped with 8GB or 16GB of GDDR6 memory featuring a peak bandwidth of 560 GBps. The Arc A750 will sit slightly below the flagship and feature a cut-down ACM-G10 GPU with 28 Xe cores (equivalent to 3,584 shading units) working at 2,050 MHz and connected to 8GB of GDDR6 memory with a peak bandwidth of 512 GBps. Both cards might find themselves among the best graphics cards, provided that they work flawlessly, offer decent performance, and their price is right.
Intel’s Arc A580 will sit below the A750 and target gamers on a budget who still want to get a taste of Intel’s top-end discrete GPU. This board will feature 24 Xe cores (3,072 shading units) running at 1,700 MHz so that it will be more than 30% slower than the top-of-the-range Arc A770. In addition, graphics cards based on the Arc A580 will carry 8GB of GDDR6 memory with up to 512GBps bandwidth.
Intel’s entry-level offering is the Arc A380 based on the ACM-G11 GPU with eight Xe cores (1,024 shading units) operating at 2,000 MHz and connected to 6GB of GDDR6 memory.
