ASRock Intel Arc A380 Graphics Card Appears in Indian Retail Without Any Official Launch
The first graphics card with a discrete Intel Arc GPU has appeared in Indian retail without much of an official announcement or publicity campaign. Multiple Indian hardware websites have begun listing the ASRock Intel Arc A380 Challenger ITX 6GB OC, with prices ranging from Rs. 20,600 to Rs. 22,999. That's nearly twice its current selling price of $139.99 (approximately Rs. 11,100) in the USA. At this price, it competes with cards based on the more powerful AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, which is relatively old but also currently overpriced due to the GPU shortage of the past few years.
In terms of performance, buyers can expect the Arc A380 to perform slightly worse than the GeForce GTX 1650 from 2019 and AMD's even lower-end Radeon RX 6400. Intel's own official benchmarks, performed on a stock reference card, showed its first discrete GPU performing about 15 percent slower than these competitors, on average, in games such as Control, F1 2021, Battlefield V, PUBG, Hitman 3, The Witcher 3, Age of Empires 4, Apex Legends, and GTA V. These games were tested at 1920x1080 using medium quality settings.
Intel's long-awaited push into discrete graphics has been delayed many times since the company first announced its intentions with the hiring of former AMD graphics head Raja Koduri in late 2017, and then laid out plans for its Xe architecture to scale from power-constrained devices to supercomputers. Originally promised for 2020, the company began building hype with a series of fan outreach events called Intel Odyssey. In October 2021, the company talked up its plans to build a hardware partner ecosystem and how it would have enough supply for a high-demand market.
However, the company went on to
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