Arc A380, A750 & A770: Intel's Arc graphics cards continue to fall in price

Intel's gaming graphics cards based on the Alchemist architecture continue to get cheaper; both Arc A380, Arc A750 and Arc A770 continue to fall in price even after the first official price reductions. In the USA it now starts at 120 US dollars, in Germany the Arc A380 is now available from around 154 euros.

Intel Arc will be cheaper worldwide

After initial teething problems and delivery bottlenecks in Germany, Intel's first gaming graphics cards are now not only available, but are constantly falling in price. In the USA and on the Chinese market, the Arc A380 with 6 GB of GDDR6 graphics memory can now be purchased from around 120 US dollars or 899 renminbi yuan, which corresponds to around 112 euros or 122 euros respectively. In this country, at least 154 euros are due for the ASRock Arc A380 Challenger ITX. It is therefore by far the cheapest gaming graphics card with hardware-based AV1 decoding and also the cheapest choice with at least 6 GB of graphics memory.

With 16 GB of graphics memory, the Arc A770 Limited Edition takes on this role, which is available in Germany from 379 euros. The same computing power with 8 GB VRAM can be found from around 344 euros with the ASRock Arc A770 Phantom Gaming. And cheaper than the ASRock Arc A750 Challenger, 8 GB of memory can only be found on AMD's Radeon RX 580, but it can by no means keep up with the GPU performance.

Intel Arc is work in progress

In particular, the Arc A380 could not necessarily cover itself with glory when it went on sale in mid-2022. But Intel stayed on the ball and has since successively improved it with new drivers – the performance has increased, problems have become fewer and the Arc Control Center is no longer a total failure. Consistently falling prices are now creating urgently needed incentives for gamers to choose a graphics card from Intel: In the follow-up test in December 2022, it was the high costs compared to AMD and Nvidia graphics cards that made Arc unattractive.