The big surprise at the launch of the new generation of processors from the chipmaker was undoubtedly the announcement of an official availability date and recommended pricing for the desktop Arc A770
Just a few days ago, references to the official end of the summer season were circulated on the net, referring to the fact that this is another window of time that Intel missed for the intended launch of its video cards. The American company was indeed late according to most calculations, but in this case, fortunately for us, it was a small delay that certainly manages to justify itself – because now we have received the practical date and the price for the Arc A770, which without a doubt is the most intriguing product in the arsenal within the family The first Alchemist of its kind under the young brand.
At the launch of the desktop Raptor Lake processors, we got a juicy surprise when it was announced on stage that starting on October 12th, the desktop A770 will be available in stores, which contains a fully active ACM-G10 core of course with 32 processing clusters and 4,096 units for floating point calculations in total .
According to bits and pieces of information collected over the past year, it seems that the Arc A770 is designed to provide performance that will compete with those of mid-range models from NVIDIA and AMD, such as the GeForce RTX 3060 and the Radeon RX 6600 XT, while Intel will highlight capabilities Extremely advanced media encoding and decoding and also good ray tracing capabilities as the relative advantage of their models over the competitors from the green and red camp – which is also reflected in the current announcement with a promise of up to 65 percent superior performance over the opponent in ray tracing (without further detailing the intention behind the general statement is very).
The recommended price of the Arc A770 will be extremely competitive, at least on paper – and will be $330 before tax, which is 1,160 shekels in direct conversion and the same as the declared launch price of the RTX 3060 (a year and a half ago, worth noting). In practice, this price is lower than the most affordable costs of the RTX 3060 that can be found on the net as of this writing, and slightly higher than the minimum price of the RX 6600 XT – not a bad starting point at all for Intel’s flagship product of this generation for us, even if it It will be true for content creators and editors first and foremost and not necessarily for all game lovers, whatever they may be.
Intel stated that $330 will be the starting price of the Arc A770, and therefore the estimates are that this is the price of the model that will include 8GB of dynamic memory with a base speed of 16Gbps and a bandwidth of 512GBps, while the most advanced model with 16GB of GDDR6 at a base speed of 17.5 Gbps will cost a little more – maybe $350 before tax? Let’s hope not much more than that, which could give Intel another relative advantage with more graphics memory available compared to the direct competitors and a better fit for uses with an extremely high resolution display.
Intel continues to describe the card as a limited edition product, therefore fantasies about wide-scale availability anywhere in the world that offer GeForce cards and Radeon cards should probably be kept low – but the very confirmation of a concrete launch is a great development from our point of view, when you take into account that Just a few weeks ago, rumors were spread online that fundamental technological problems had allegedly led to the complete cancellation of the launch plan for the Alchemist family.
For dessert, with the new information we can now roughly estimate the intended prices for the remaining Arc A750 and Arc A580 desktop models as well – somewhere in the range between $140 (the official price of the basic Arc A380) and $330, with a reasonable potential for $290 or less for the former and $250 or less for the latter.