These cards aren’t actually limited - they’re similar to Nvidia’s Founder’s Edition cards. For the cards we have, Intel is offering its Limited Edition models at the prices listed above.
I included the A580 and A380 specs for reference, but we still don’t have pricing or a release date for those cards yet. That gives Arc a big boost in ray tracing, as I’ll explore later in this review. The biggest note is that Intel is using dedicated ray tracing cores unlike AMD’s RX 6000 graphics cards. There’s nothing too interesting about the Arc A770 and A750’s specs. If you were planning on throwing an Arc GPU into an older system without ReBAR support, you’re going to have a much worse experience. Although it’s best to keep ReBAR on for the best performance, even recent AMD and Nvidia architectures don’t need it to perform at the level they should. That’s a large enough performance gap to call ReBAR an essential feature. Keep in mind that the only difference between the results was turning ReBAR off in the BIOS. With the A770 at 1080p, my frame rate dropped by 24% in Horizon Zero Dawn. In Metro Exodus, the drop was nearly 19%. I didn’t retest my entire suite because the differences became clear within a few games. The cards will work with older CPUs, but you’ll have much lower performance if ReBAR is turned off. That’s because Arc Alchemist cards benefit a lot from Resizable BAR, which is only available on the last few generations of processors. Intel says the Arc A770 and A750 require a 10th-gen Intel CPU or AMD Ryzen 3000 CPU or newer. A note on compatibilityīefore I get into the juicy performance testing, a word needs to be said about compatibility.
They’ll surely be beaten out by upcoming Nvidia and AMD GPUs around the same price when the time comes, but for the next year at least, Intel is a serious competitor in the $250 to $350 range. With GPU prices on an upward trajectory, the Arc A770 and A750 could represent a massive price correction.
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