Intel reveals the official specifications of all Intel ARC cards

We finally know what Intel’s gaming graphics cards will look like. Can they compete with NVIDIA and AMD gaming cards? Let’s find out.

Delayed more than a year, it seems that Intel has resigned himself to keeping a low profile with his first gaming graphics cards in decades.

Today Has revealed the official specifications of all Intel ARC graphics cards that you are going to put on the market. They clarify some things for us, at least on a theoretical level. Then it will be necessary to see how they perform.

Intel is going to put on the market three ranges of Intel ARC gaming cards. input range Intel ARC 3a midrange represented by Intel ARC 5and a more powerful (but not top), the Intel ARC 7. It is curious how they follow the nomenclature of their processors. You have all its characteristics in this table:

As we see, all of them are compatible with DirectX 12 Ultimate and ray tracingWindows 11 advanced graphics options, and they connect via PCI-E 4.0.

Take out the technology intel xess, which is the alternative to NVIDIA’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR, a supersampling technique to improve graphics definition without losing much performance. They will also improve performance with artificial intelligence, through XMX.

The input model is Intel ARC A380 card. It has 8 Xe Cores, 8 ray tracing units, and 128 XMX Engines. These data are Intel’s own measurements and are difficult to quantify on its own. They are more useful to compare with other cards.

The A380 It reaches speeds of 2,000 Mhz, with 6 GB of GDDR6 memory and a memory width of 186 GB/s. With these data, its performance would be that of a GTX 1660 Super. Its price should be around 150 or 200 dollars.

The new one Intel ARC A580 multiplies by three the figures of the previous one, except in the speed, which remains at 1,700 Mhz. With 8 GB of memory and 512 GB/s of bandwidth. would be equivalent to a RTX 3050, for about 250 dollars.

The next evolutionary leap is A750, which improves the figures of the previous one by 10%, with 28 Xe Cores, ray tracing units, and XMX Engines. It reaches 2,050 Hz and maintains the bandwidth and memory of the A580. It should compete with an RTX 3060 Ti, for about 350 dollars.

The most powerful model is Intel ARX A770, with 32 Xe Cores and ray tracing units, 512 XMX Engines, and a maximum speed of 2,100 Mhz. It will be sold with 8 or 16 GB of RAM and has a bandwidth of 560 Gb/s. Its performance should be close to NVIDIA’s RTX 3070. Being optimistic, from the RTX 3070 Ti. It should cost around $400.

The prices are indicative, since Intel did not reveal them, nor the launch date. VAT should be added here.

The problem for Intel is that the cards arrive a year late. NVIDIA will present the new RTX4000 on September 20, which will leave all of these cards far behind. But if you sell them at a good price, the Intel ARC can be a cheap alternative for many users.