

With Intel targeting better than RTX 3060 levels of performance, at a potentially lower price and with more VRAM, things are shaping up nicely for Team Blue.Ĭould Intel, purveyor of low performance integrated GPUs-"the most popular GPUs in the world"-possibly hope to compete? Yes, it can.

That's a lot lower on pricing than what was initially rumored, but then the A770 is also coming out far later than originally intended. The latest announcement from Intel is that the Arc A770 is coming October 12, starting at $329.

The competition among the best graphics cards is fierce, and Intel's current integrated graphics solutions basically don't even rank on our GPU benchmarks hierarchy (UHD Graphics 630 sits at 1.8% of the RTX 3090 based on just 1080p medium performance). This is the first 'real' dedicated Intel GPU since the i740 back in 1998 - or technically, a proper discrete GPU after the Intel Xe DG1 paved the way last. Intel has been hyping up Xe Graphics for about two years, but the Intel Arc Alchemist GPU will finally bring some needed performance and competition from Team Blue to the discrete GPU space.
