https://www.pcmag.com/news/hands-on-with-intels-arc-a770-limited-edition-a-new-card-player-enters

It all sounds really good but until someone like Jay or Linus get their hands on one and put it through its paces I'm gonna have to be a pretty hard pass. I never buy a vehicle that has a new first year engine style simply because they are untested in mass. I'm the same way about most things, if it proves to be a solid unit that can handle gaming it will be a godsend for gamers who dont want to fork out what we used to build entire systems for just for a GPU.

If it can deliver the goods, they can make enough of them, and it stays at that price point, they will rock AMD's and Nvidia's socks off.

An unfortunate requirement for the cards, you must have "Resizable BAR" available in the bios. It is required for optimal performance with Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics".

Well I wouldn't be upgrading till I build a new box anywho. R-BAR / SAM (same thing) have been around for a couple of years so 10th Gen Intel Chips support it as does AMD but its called SAM and requires both CPU and GPU be AMD to utilize the SAM processes from what I have gathered. I think the main hurdle will be main boards and their ability to use the R-BAR / SAM technology.

Truth be told nether AMD or Nvidia chipsets show much of a performance boost when this is enabled. It sounds really good in theory but just doesn't pan out that way from all the data I've seen.

Intel may have figured out how to get the memory stream optimized but we really won't know until it gets put through the ringer. Could be great or it could fall flat. Time will tell I guess.

Found this comparison:

Color me unimpressed.

Ask and ye shall receive.

 

Found this comparison:

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Color me unimpressed.

I saw some different charts that showed a substantial difference. But like you said, we must wait until they put this thing through the rigors of intense testing. Also, they update their drivers continuously, so it will eventually mature with better results. We really needed them to enter the market to help increase availability and lower the costs for the consumer.

Absolutely, in Jay's video you can see there are titles where it absolutely dominates both AMD and Nvidia but likewise there are titles that are designed especially for those cards and they kill the others. From what I've seen if the title is a console port AMD will kill everyone else. Games that are designed with a specific manufacturer in mind they will excel (as expected) and so on. What I did find interesting is that Intel flat out says that titles not specifically developed with DX12 in mind or if your system doesn't have full R-BAR or SAM support just buy the Nvidia card.

After watching far more review videos than I care to say I may go ahead and pop for a 770 when I build a new system or whatever the current high end version is if they keep that price point. All my spare cash is going toward the Galaxie restomod at the moment so it might be a while.

1966 Ford Galaxie 500 Fastback : ( Same color as this one just not as pretty right now.)

Swapping the motor and trans from a 2000's Mustang GT so i can get the fuel injection and so that engine parts aren't so damned expensive. I'll keep the numbers matching motor and trans and maybe rebuild them later but if i decide to sell it it will definitely raise the asking price if I have the numbers matching powertrain to include.

After watching far more review videos than I care to say I may go ahead and pop for a 770 when I build a new system

If you do, please let me know how it performs. I will be in the market after the first of the year. I usually upgrade the video card separately, and the mobo, CPU, and memory on a different upgrade.

I forgot to mention the beautiful car. 🚗

I forgot to mention the beautiful car. 🚗

Knowing what time I'm gonna have in mine I dont even wanna know what time they have into that one.