Intel Arc A770: Meet the Intel graphics card

The year 2022 is full of new news for video card consumers: in addition to the recent launch of the RTX 40 and the imminent launch of the Radeon 7000 in November, Intel He entered the GPU war with the launch of the Arc A380 and is now its agent. bow A770.

In this article, we will examine the key features of this model, which comes to fight GPUs like the RTX 3060, and present some benchmarks. Is Intel ready to fight in the gaming card segment? Check below.

Intel joined the war

For decades, the graphics card market has always been dominated by AMD and NVIDIA, and in recent years Intel has been very interested in claiming a piece of that pie. For starters, the blue side has finally released their first custom cards, the Arc Alchemist A380 and A310. Actually, the start wasn’t good and the cards just don’t have the performance or price to compete.

Now, in October, bow A770 It gives faces to be Intel’s intermediate model, which is produced with the aim of running Full HD games with maximum quality and Ray Tracing enabled. Its main competitors will be the RTX 3060 or RX 6600 XT.

Architecture and chip

One of the Arc Alchemist boards Architecture called Xe-HPG (High Performance Graphics) and A770 use the ACM-G10 chip, which is the same as used in the A750 but with a few less builds. On the chip, Intel has placed eight Render Slices containing four Xe cores and four Ray Tracing units. In total, the GPU 32 computing cores.

The model is equipped with 16GB or 8GB memory 2.6GHz GDDR6 VRAM; 256-bit memory interface, 560GB/s bandwidth and 225W TBP. In this way, the model has very interesting features for those who want to play Full HD or even Quad HD.

In addition, the Arc A770 comes with a PCIe 4.0×16 connector and is already AV1 technology. Also included in the RTX 4090, AV1 is a video compression and decompression feature that should improve the lives of content creators.

Tests and benchmarks

Theoretically, the Arc A770 looks like a good graphics card, and during tests of several specialized tools, the GPU did well. Web site TechPowerUp created a graph showing the average performance of the model in Full HD, Reaching something in the 98 frame range. By comparison, well-established models like the RTX 3060 and Radeon RX 6600 XT average 94 and 106 frames.

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In Quad HD the scenario is also very interesting because the GPU manages an average of 79 frames per second. While the average is really high, it’s worth staying low and high, as with Warhammer III and Doom Eternal. Even if, Intel’s freshman beat both the RTX 3060 and the Radeon RX 6600 XTIt varies by 4%.

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Before we dive into specific tests at 4K in games, it’s worth highlighting the synthetic benchmarks of software like 3DMark in the Time Spy Extreme test. In terms of brute force, the GPU has a 7% difference from its younger brother Arc A750. Compared to its main competitor, the RTX 3060, things change by a 56% margin, according to tests by PCGamer.

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Coming back to games, the Arc A770, performs well at 4k, but it’s worth reiterating that this model wasn’t made to run games at that resolution. tests TechPowerUp they also don’t use image resizing technologies, so the results are native performance in the graph below:

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It is worth noting that more competitive games like Battlefield V, F1 and DOS 2 achieve higher rates, but narrated and cinematic games like Dying Light and God of War range from 30 to 40 frames.

Intel XeSS

Finally, it should be mentioned that: Intel XeSStechnologyimage scaling According to Intel, it has the ability to conflict with DLSS and AMD FSR. The testing feature hasn’t gotten that far yet, but the tech seems to do a good job of reducing rough edges. In terms of performance, QHD and 4K resolutions outperform in Hitman 3 with 20-30% more performance variation.

Worth it?

The Intel Arc A770 is a card that is highly praised by the international press and brings very interesting performance, especially for the Full HD scenario as well as the occasional Quad HD gaming. The model is currently not available in the Brazilian market, but if it costs between R$2,100 and R$2,499, it will compete directly with the RTX 3060 and RX 6600 XT, making it a good option for consumers.