Here Are the Specs for Intel's Arc Desktop Graphics Cards
As Intel prepares to officially launch its Arc desktop GPUs, the company is detailing specs for four models in the product line.
The company revealed the specs in a Thursday video(Opens in a new window) that gives PC builders a preview of what to expect from Intel’s foray into discrete gaming graphics. The chipmaker confirms that the A770 is the most powerful model in the Arc desktop line, followed by the A750.
The products then scale down to the mid-tier A580 and low-end A380, which Newegg has quietly been selling online in the US since last month.
The specs show the A770 can feature up to 560GB/s in memory bandwidth. Meanwhile, the memory bandwidth on the A580 and A750 can hit up to 512GB/s, which is more than the 448GB/s in Nvidia’s RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti, although the spec isn’t always directly comparable due to different architectures.
The Xe cores represent the main computational engines for the Arc graphics card. “So more Xe cores means more graphics performance and bigger dies,” said Intel graphics fellow Tom Petersen in the video. Meanwhile, the XMX engines are designed to accelerate AI-based workloads, such as video and photo editing.
Intel also revealed the clock speeds for the GPUs. However, the specs only cover the expected performance for a majority of games and applications; they don’t necessarily represent the highest clock speeds possible.
The other notable detail is how the Arc A770 will mostly arrive with 8GB of GDDR6 video RAM. But in some cases, vendors will release 16GB models.
The specs don’t exactly reveal much about performance. But in recent weeks, Intel has released some benchmarks for the Arc A770 and Arc 750, which suggest the cards will compete against Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti and RTX
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