Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced the release date for the Intel Arc A770 graphics card. A discrete solution that is positioned by a competitor to the more expensive NVIDIA RTX 3060 and Radeon RX 6650 XT. Gelsinger stated that the A770’s peak ray tracing performance is 65% higher than the competition, although no specific cards were mentioned in this case.
The A770 is equipped with a full ACM-G10 GPU with 32 Xe cores and 8GB or 16GB of memory. The Intel Limited Edition will only ship with 16GB of VRAM. The $329 price may refer to the 8GB model. The VideoCardz website has collected in a table all the known characteristics of Intel video cards:
Also, Intel quietly made XeSS intelligent frame scaling technology available in Shadow of the Tomb Raider in yesterday’s patch for the game and posted the corresponding SDK on GitHub. The technology supports not only Intel adapters, but also NVIDIA and AMD video cards. It is quite possible that modders will be able to port XeSS to other games before it officially happens.
The Intel Arc A770 Graphics are already being mailed to reviewers. This is in line with recent rumors that unboxing may be allowed from September 30th and reviews will be possible from October 5th. Until now, reviewers have not had the opportunity to test the novelty, and the previously appeared Arc A380 did not cause delight among reviewers.
Also, Intel confirmed the appearance of new information about the A750 video card this week. It is not entirely clear why the cards were not presented at the same time.
