Intel’s Arc A770 Gets $329 Price Tag and October Release Date

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Over a year after Intel announced it would begin making graphics cards and delays, the CPU maker has officially announced that it will enter the desktop GPU market next month with its Arc A770 graphics card.

Intel's Arc A770 features 16GB of GDDR6 memory, 32 Xe cores, a 21000MHz clock, and uses Intel's Xe graphical architecture. The A770 will also support XeSS, Intel's supersampling technology that will compete with AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and Nvidia's DLSS. Several games confirmed to support XeSS include Ghostwire: Tokyo, Death Stranding: Director's Cut, and Gotham Knights.

The Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card goes on sale Oct 12. #IntelOn Learn more: https://t.co/fGp9tB467k pic.twitter.com/PKKuXT3Eiv

The Intel Arc A770 will be available beginning October 12 — the same day that Nvidia's new flagship GPU, the RTX 4090, will be available to consumers. Though the Arc A770 is not a GPU that Intel is touting will trade blows with Nvidia's forthcoming top-of-the-line GPU, it will serve as competition to Nvidia's more affordable GPUs, the RTX 3060 and RTX 3070.

"We've been seeing that for a long time the price of GPUs is right in this $200–$300 range, but what's happened in the last few years is that they've gotten super expensive," Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said. "You should be frustrated because you are losing out as the gaming community, and today we're fixing that."

Intel Arc A770 vs. Nvidia RTX 3060 | Image: Intel

Ahead of the Arc A770's release, Intel uploaded a video that offered a deep dive into the Arc A-Series and shared some benchmark results of the Arc A770 and RTX 3060. The benchmarks, as seen in the image below, show the Arc 770 outperforming the RTX 3060 in several games running at 1080p