Enlarge / Intel arrives astatine a important sub-$300 terms for its medium-end GPU option. But volition that carnivore retired arsenic a worthwhile terms compared to its performance?

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Intel's highest-end graphics paper lineup is approaching its retail launch, and that means we're getting much answers to important marketplace questions of prices, motorboat dates, performance, and availability. Today, Intel answered much of those A700-series GPU questions, and they're paired with claims that every paper successful the Arc A700 bid punches backmost astatine Nvidia's 18-month-old RTX 3060.

After announcing a $329 terms for its A770 GPU earlier this week, Intel clarified it would motorboat 3 A700 bid products connected October 12: The aforementioned Arc A770 for $329, which sports 8GB of GDDR6 memory; an further Arc A770 Limited Edition for $349, which jumps up to 16GB of GDDR6 astatine somewhat higher representation bandwidth and different sports different identical specs; and the somewhat weaker A750 Limited Edition for $289.

Enlarge / A770 (16GB model) and A750 specs breakdown.

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If you missed the memo connected that sub-$300 GPU erstwhile it was announced, the A750 LE is fundamentally a binned mentation of the A770's chipset with 87.5 percent of the shading units and ray tracing (RT) units turned on, on with an ever-so-slightly downclocked boost timepiece (2.05 GHz, compared to 2.1 GHz connected some A770 models).

Intel previously confirmed that caller purchases of Arc A700 bid GPUs made by January 2023 would travel with a bundle of downloadable games and software, including this year's remake of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Gotham Knights, and more.

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Enlarge / A refresher connected Intel's first-gen Arc GPU variety.

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In a league telephone with the press, Intel representatives declined to clarify archetypal shipment counts for its archetypal 3 A700-series GPUs, different than to suggest debased banal for the larger-memory A770 LE: "I fishy we're going to merchantability retired of that 1 precise quickly," Intel Graphics Fellow Tom Petersen told Ars. He was reluctant to clarify whether helium expected aboriginal sellouts of Intel's A700 GPUs, "We don't cognize if we're going to person a proviso occupation oregon a request problem. I anticipation we person a request problem." He past confirmed that Intel plans to nutrient its ain in-house GPU models implicit time, alternatively of cutting disconnected "LE" accumulation portion request mightiness inactive exist.

Unfortunately, Intel compounded the GPUs' availability question by not confirming which add-in committee (AIB) partners would beryllium portion of the A700 series' October rollout. Petersen kicked that tin down the roadworthy by suggesting those third-party GPU manufacturers volition marque their ain announcements, past mentioned an involvement successful expanding its database of Arc-powered AIBs.