Arc A770 and A750 (“Alchemist”): The GeForce RTX 3070 remains far out of reach

The two dedicated gaming graphics cards Intel Arc A770 and Arc A750 from the first generation Intel Xe HPG (“Alchemist”) should appear very soon according to the manufacturer and will be between the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti and on par with the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT.

As Intel has confirmed to the Digital Foundry website, the smaller of the two graphics cards (the Intel Arc A750 with 28 Xe cores and 3,584 shader units) should be based on the GeForce RTX 3060 (test), while the Intel Arc A770 with 4,096 ALUs roughly “halfway” between this and the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (test). As the editors' graphics card ranking reveals, the graphics cards will be on par with the Radeon RX 6600 XT (test).

Intel Arc A750 versus Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 (image: Intel)

The manufacturer's in-house benchmarks place the Intel Arc A750 at roughly the performance level of a GeForce RTX 3060, while the Intel Arc A770 is said to be slightly above it. The GeForce RTX 3070 (test) and the Radeon RX 6700 XT (test) remain far out of reach of the Arc graphics cards with ACM G10 GPU.

In the deep dive “Inside Intel Arc”, Intel's GPU Marketing Director Ryan Shrout and Tom Petersen go into the following seven points in particular.

• Release of the Arc Series
• Performance on DirectX 11
• Performance on DirectX 12
• Performance on Vulkan 1.3
• Performance with ray tracing
• Intel XeSS in detail
• Resizable BAR

Intel promises to release the Arc graphics card series, which will initially only consist of the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition and the Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition, “very soon”. Later, custom designs of the two graphics cards will also appear, whereby the partners should be free to offer the top model with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory. Intel itself describes the 16 GB memory expansion as a “gift to the gamers”.

When it comes to real-time ray tracing, the manufacturer sees itself as being particularly well positioned and “on the level of amperes”. Resizable BAR is also “mandatory” when using an Arc graphics card, since otherwise “a lot of performance” would be lost. The test of the Intel Arc A380 also confirmed this on ComputerBase.

ComputerBase currently the Medion Erazer Major X10 with Intel Arc A730M for testing. Like the Arc A750, the mobile GPU is based on the large ACM G10 GPU, but only offers 24 instead of 28 active Xe cores and can draw a maximum of 120 watts.