Intel Arc A770

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Intel’s Flagship Arc A770 graphics card previewed for gaming at 1440p. The Overclocking Demo Shows show clocks up to 2.5 GHz.

It’s only been a few days since Intel officially revealed information about its high-end Alchemist graphics card, the Arc A770. If we pay closer attention, we have seen this graphics card was also introduced at the WAN exhibition organized by Linus Sebastian and Luke Lafreniere with guests from Intel including Tom Petersen and Ryan Shrout.

Intel’s graphics division has now released a lot of information about the performance and overclocking capabilities of its Arc A770 card through Linus’ channel and what has been announced is quite impressive.

The Intel Arc 7 lineup will use the high-end ACM-G10 GPU, and we already know about mobile variants including Arc A770M and Arc A730M. Similarly, Arc A770 is one of the most advanced variants for Desktop, PC equipped with full ACM-G10 configuration, using 32 Xe-Core for 4096 ALU and 32 ray tracing units.

In terms of clocks, the GPU will operate at a peak boost of 2.4 GHz, which is always higher than its advertised engine clock speed. At 2400 MHz, the GPU should be able to deliver close to 20 TFLOPs of FP32 horsepower.

The Arc A770 also features 16GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus interface. The GPU is powered by an 8+6-pin connector configuration that maxes out at 300W even though the actual TGP/TBP should be around 250W lower. The demo shows the Arc A770 running at around 190W.

In terms of performance, we should expect the Arc A770 to fall between the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti and the RTX 3070 as the Arc A750 is up to 17% faster in performance than the RTX 3060.

In terms of performance, Intel mainly focused on DirectX 12 & Vulkan APIs before moving on to older DX11s and older titles. The performance demo of two identical systems running Intel Core i9-12900KS and Arc A770 GPU shows that in DX11 the graphics card delivers around 40 FPS while in DX12 the graphics card delivers 80 FPS, thus, which is a 2x leap in the latest API (application program interface).

The numbers above are by no means an impressive result and show the cost of the old drivers that Intel’s Arc GPUs include in the older DX11 API. So if you’ve got yourself an Arc graphics card and gaming in DX12 will be the safest way for you to get performance on par with its competitors.

Intel claims that there will be 3 levels of optimization for Arc GPUs. In tier 1, the Arc GPUs will deliver “best-in-class performance. Tier 2 games are less optimized but are based on the modern APIs we just mentioned above, so performance is more here and can be equal to or slightly below the competition.

Finally, we have tier 3 titles that are unoptimized and run on older APIs. So the performance in these games will be much worse than the competition.

Most of the performance tested in 2 games, Cyberpunk 2077 and F1 2021, gives an OK-ish experience at 1440p resolution, but when overclocking, it results in a smoother experience but we have not seen any FPS metrics. The graphics card has been tuned to the GPU Performance Boost profile by +20%, the voltage curve is adjusted, the power limit is increased to 285W while the temperature limit is increased to 125C.

The Intel Arc A770 graphics card delivers 100% utilization efficiency at a peak clock speed of 2.5GHz and a maximum temperature of 76C while gaming in Cyberpunk 2077. When the Performance Boost profile is pushed to +30 %, the game crashed due to the limitation of silicon used in the tests.

Linus speculates that based on performance and current market conditions, the Intel Arc A770 graphics card will cost less than $400, which is also the price we’d expect the graphics card to be.

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