News Intel Arc A770 and A750 Limited Edition Unboxed

[Admin]

The Intel Arc A770 and A750 review kit has arrived, with the launch set for October 12. Here's our unboxing of the cards, which actually have a pretty cool shipping box.

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[PiranhaTech]

Hopefully they can both get their drivers right, and help encourage Nvidia to drop their prices

 

[Blacksad999]

Hopefully they can both get their drivers right, and help encourage Nvidia to drop their prices

I see a lot of people say this. However, most of them just want Intel or AMD to underprice Nvidia not so that they can buy one of their cards, but so that they can then just ideally buy a cheaper Nvidia card. lol

 

[saunupe1911]

Wow the lack of full 48gb HDMI 2.1 is a huge let down! The HTPC and small form PC folks would have ate this up. Extremely missed opportunity. C'mon Intel!!!!

 

[thestryker]

Wow the lack of full 48gb HDMI 2.1 is a huge let down! The HTPC and small form PC folks would have ate this up. Extremely missed opportunity. C'mon Intel!!!!

It has 3x DP 2.0 ports (I believe all of the Intel Limited Edition GPUs have DP 2.0) on it AFAIK so there might be (likely expensive) an active adapter down the road which would do the trick. I do agree it'd be great if it had HDMI 2.1 as well, but I'm assuming they didn't have the spec ready when the silicon was originally done.

 

[waltc3]

Very good to mention that AMD makes GPUs, too--otherwise someone might think these Arcs can't compete with any AMD GPU. Sort of a bizarre oversight by Intel PR, imo. One day soon, I imagine, you'll get the green light to test them, and won't that be fun? I would imagine that Intel is hard at work trying to put its drivers into shape before the NDA lapses, which I imagine is why you can't test it right now. So many rumors about these GPUs, it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, so I'll be glad when you get the green light to test.

 

[digitalgriffin]

If the drivers are anything near as buggy as Intel's previous releases, write me.

I'll send you, your favorite alcohol in empathy.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Am I the only one still flabbergasted people are celebrating the emergence of what are essentially entry level gaming cards at over $300?

 

[Co BIY]

Am I the only one still flabbergasted people are celebrating the emergence of what are essentially entry level gaming cards at over $300?

While I sympathize with this sentiment . $300 isn't what it used to be.

The 960 was $199 at release in 2015 - $1 in 2015 is $1.25 today. That puts the 960 MSRP at $250 today and inflation would account for half the price increase. Large performance increases in the new cards and diminishing returns to "Moore's Law" make these prices seem more reasonable.

People are also celebrating a third entrant into the GPU marketplace. The market dynamics with three competitors is much better than with two.

 

[Warrior24_7]

Hopefully they can both get their drivers right, and help encourage Nvidia to drop their prices

Why? Are you spending over $800 on a card? Intel aimed these at the mainstream market.

 

[Warrior24_7]

Am I the only one still flabbergasted people are celebrating the emergence of what are essentially entry level gaming cards at over $300?

Yep, you are! This is where most people buy their GPUs. Everybody talks about the 4090 and 4090Ti like they’re buying one. The truth is, they’re not. They just complain about the price of one.

 

[Warrior24_7]

Very good to mention that AMD makes GPUs, too--otherwise someone might think these Arcs can't compete with any AMD GPU. Sort of a bizarre oversight by Intel PR, imo. One day soon, I imagine, you'll get the green light to test them, and won't that be fun? I would imagine that Intel is hard at work trying to put its drivers into shape before the NDA lapses, which I imagine is why you can't test it right now. So many rumors about these GPUs, it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, so I'll be glad when you get the green light to test.

Why is it good to mention AMD? Nvidia makes the best cards, that’s why Intel targeted them. If anybody should be afraid of more competition in this space is AMD. When using AMD, the pros as well as AMD fanboy’s use AMD CPUs with Nvidia GPUs! So far, Intel’s very first card seems impressive!

 

[KyaraM]

If the drivers are anything enar as buggy as Intel's previous releases, write me.

I'll send you, your favorite alcohol in empathy.

GN mentioned in one of his videos about 2 months back that Intel fixed half the bugs he had found within a couple weeks. Iirc that was over 100 bugs. So they do take it seriously.

 

[JoBalz]

Well, interesting news just as my MSI RTX 3060 arrived Friday. Actually, I knew ARC was about to be released, but I was highly hesitant to be an early adopter, only to experience problems with buggy drivers. If they had been released for six months to a year and the drivers had the bugs worked out, I might have considered it. I do like the idea there might actually be come competition with NVIDIA and AMD.

 

[digitalgriffin]

I recently came across several reports here on the different tech-channels and that Intel dropped their entire discrete GPU program and called it quits. Invested over $1-Billion just to getting it started. Of course none of this information came officially and or directly from an Intel corporate communication, but nevertheless it was prominently posted. Why would anyone report and write such a negative thing as another or third major GPU OEM with deep pockets is good for the consumer. Thoughts?

Intel has a history of pumping and dumping. Do you know how many "leading edge" products Intel invested a ton in, just to dump it as it was released?

They have a really bad rep this way.

That said, Intel will likely keep Raja for corporate AI processor work. Less driver headaches and bigger profit margins in AI.

If anything Raja seems competent for decent compute throughput, even if he lacks in gaming, planning and resource management.

 

[KyaraM]

I recently came across several reports here on the different tech-channels and that Intel dropped their entire discrete GPU program and called it quits. Invested over $1-Billion just to getting it started. Of course none of this information came officially and or directly from an Intel corporate communication, but nevertheless it was prominently posted. Why would anyone report and write such a negative thing as another or third major GPU OEM with deep pockets is good for the consumer. Thoughts?

Because Intel-haters need their daily dose of bs about Intel to keep hating. If the rumor is true or not is irrelevant, they need to be fed.

 

[shady28]

Because Intel-haters need their daily dose of bs about Intel to keep hating. If the rumor is true or not is irrelevant, they need to be fed.

^^^ That.

Plus the leaker, "MLID" aka Moore's Law Is Dead, basically got debunked by Gamers Nexus who called their contacts at Intel (far more credible I might add) and essentially got laughed at.

MLID is a fake.

I wasn't real sure about him ever since he had an "anonymous Intel Engineer", that mostly said "uhhmmm" and couldn't seem to string a complete sentence together, show up on his channel.

At this point though, pretty much everything that guy has said in the last 6 months has turned out to be garbage.

 

[Co BIY]

I recently came across several reports here on the different tech-channels and that Intel dropped their entire discrete GPU program and called it quits. Invested over $1-Billion just to getting it started. Of course none of this information came officially and or directly from an Intel corporate communication, but nevertheless it was prominently posted. Why would anyone report and write such a negative thing as another or third major GPU OEM with deep pockets is good for the consumer. Thoughts?

Because sometimes the traders and hedge funds need to create ripples to trade on. They don't need waves when they can leverage a ripple they started.