According to Intel, its midrange RTX 3060 GPU will perform worse than its Arc A770 and A750 GPUs.

Similar to the A770, the A750 will be on sale for $289 on October 12.

 

Before making its Arc desktop GPUs available to everyone in a few weeks, Intel has provided further information about the specs and performance of the graphics cards. 32 Xe cores, 32 ray-tracing units, and a 2,100MHz graphics clock are features of the $329 A770. It has memory bandwidth of up to 512 Gb/s and 560 Gb/s in the 8GB and 16GB RAM versions, respectively.

 

With regard to the A750, which Intel just revealed will start at $289 and has 8GB of RAM and up to 512 Gb/s of memory bandwidth, it features 28 Xe cores, 28 ray-tracing units, a 2,050MHz graphics frequency, and 28 Xe cores. The three cards, which go on sale on October 12, offer a combined 225W of power.

 

These cards, according to Intel, offer better value than NVIDIA’s mid-range GeForce RTX 3060, according to benchmarking tests. According to the report, the A770 provides 42 percent more performance per dollar compared to the RTX 3060, and the A750 appears to be 53 percent better.

 

It asserts that the 16GB variant of the A770 performed better with ray-tracing in most of the games it tested than the similarly priced RTX 3060. (which, in fairness, debuted back in early 2021). According to Intel, the A770 outperformed the RTX 3060 in Fortnite by 1.56 times in terms of ray-tracing performance.

 

Of course Intel will claim that their GPUs are superior to those of its rivals. To truly understand the performance, we’ll need to wait for the results of our own Intel Arc benchmarking testing.

 

In any event, it appears that NVIDIA will soon face increased competition in the GPU market. Only this time, it comes from a well-known company whose processors power many PCs that would otherwise likely have utilised NVIDIA graphics cards.