The Intel Arc A750 graphics card was notably missing from Pat Gelsinger’s keynote speech a few days ago at Intel Innovation 2022, despite the Intel CEO announcing the Arc A770. (opens in new tab) during the performance. Fortunately, I can now confirm that we won’t have to wait long for the cheaper card, if not at all. The Intel Arc A750 will launch on October 12 for $289.
The Arc A750 will feature 28 Xe cores, four fewer than the Arc A770. As such, these two maps are expected to be fairly close in terms of game performance. While that’s said, the Arc A750 will run a bit slower with a graphics clock of 2,050MHz and will ship with 8GB of GDDR6 at 16Gbps – that’s slower than the Arc A770 in both respects.
That’s also less VRAM on the Arc A750 than the Arc A770 Limited Edition card we’ll see at launch, and the reason I’ve worded that very specifically is that Intel is planning an 8GB model of the Arc A770, starting at $329, which will come through from her partners at a later date. Graphics guru Tom Petersen won’t say who Intel’s partners are for the Arc 7 cards.
Petersen does say that Intel expects its partners to come to market “very soon” with the cheaper Arc A770 8GB, but that seems to leave the more expensive Arc A770 16GB Limited Edition, of Intel’s own design, alone of the two A770s. models available October 12. The 16GB model costs $349.
You can see the official specifications of both Intel Arc Limited Edition graphics cards in more detail in the table below.
| Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition (16GB) | Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition | |
|---|---|---|
| Generation | Alchemist | Alchemist |
| Xe Cores / XMX Engines | 32 / 512 | 28 / 448 |
| Render slices | 8 | 7 |
| Raytracing Units | 32 | 28 |
| Graphics Clock (MHz) | 2.100 | 2.050 |
| Memory configuration | 16GB GDDR6 @ 17.5Gbps | 8GB GDDR6 @ 16Gbps |
| Memory interface | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 560GB/s | 512GB/s |
| System Interface | PCIe Gen 4 x16 | PCIe Gen 4 x16 |
| Power (TBP) | 225W | 225W |
| Plug | 1x 8-pin, 1x 6-pin | 1x 8-pin, 1x 6-pin |
| HW accelerated media | AV1, HEVC, H.264, VP9 | AV1, HEVC, H.264, VP9 |
| Display outputs | 3x DisplayPort 2.0, 1x HDMI 2.1 | 3x DisplayPort 2.0, 1x HDMI 2.1 |
| form factor | 10.5-inch length, dual slot | 10.5-inch length, dual slot |
| API support | DirectX 12Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3 | DirectX 12Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3 |
| OS support | Win 10/11, Ubuntu | Win 10/11, Ubuntu |
| Intel Deep Link Technologies | Yes | Yes |
| Guarantee | 3 years | 3 years |
It’s a bit of a shame to hear that the $329 price that Gelsinger plastered over Gelsinger’s head during his Intel Innovation keynote won’t be available on the October 12 launch date. You could be forgiven if you think it is. Petersen goes on to comment on the prices announced, but notes that it’s an “excellent price” that “is going to reset the market.” He also says he’s confident Intel can “actually meet our suggested retail price.”
So where does the A750 stand against competition? Intel says it will deliver 53% better performance per dollar than an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 (opens in new tab). While that’s based on Intel’s assumption of the current price of an RTX 3060, which is currently pegged at $418. That’s close to target in some cases, though it’s worth noting that some RTX 3060 graphics cards are available for less than $400 (opens in new tab)-maybe Nvidia is watching what Intel is up to.
Petersen also makes slight mention of one of the Limited Edition cards as an “overclocked edition”, although I have not confirmed whether this is indeed the case for these cards. It could easily have been a slip of the tongue and Petersen meant to say limited edition, but I’ll be contacting Intel for confirmation anyway.
We can even meet our suggested retail price.
Tom Petersen, Intel
The other card worth comparing to the Arc A750 is AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 (opens in new tab). That’s a card that often drops below the MSRP these days, even as low as $240 (opens in new tab). In terms of performance, that card can’t quite match an RTX 3060 frame by frame, but I expect the same to be true for the A750, depending on the API used by a particular game – Intel admits its Arc GPUs a lot better suited to modern APIs like DX12 and Vulkan and may struggle with DX11 and older games.
Will Intel’s Arc A750 ‘reset the market’? For now, we’re basing our assumptions on Intel’s internal testing, so it’s difficult to make bold statements. It sure would be fun, at least. Intel is going to be quite open to AMD and Nvidia price comparisons with the release of these cards, and I’d almost say we’re already seeing it. But if that’s how we get more affordable entry-level GPUs, so be it.
However, it won’t be long before we have cards in hand to test for ourselves. The Arc A770 Limited Edition and Arc A750 Limited Edition launch on October 12, and you can expect PC Gamer to have stats and numbers for you that day.
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