Intel Arc A750 & A770 Unboxing & Preview

[the54thvoid]

No, that's just piles of cash.

What do you mean?

 

[RedBear]

Interesting, so who all are making these? Acer, Asrock, Dell, HP, Lenovo et al? I'm guessing ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte will also be there!

So far I've only seen Gunnir, Asrock and Acer.

If Nvidia drops 4070 and below cards, and RDNA 3 they follow high prices without AV1, Intel will be in a very good position once they optimize their drivers and push their marketing on their AV1 support for entry cards, as well as less bulky than their competitors without special power cords...

I don't see Nvidia dropping the 4070 segment and below, it will just have terrible value (again). But it's too early to say whether this will give Intel a chance to compete with a piece of hardware that has been repeatedly delayed at this point.

 

[64K]

Everything will change when Nvidia and AMD release their nextgen GPUs in a couple of months.

 

[Richards]

@W1zzard what cpu will you be using for testing ? .. i recommend ryzen 7700x or 12900k

 

[btarunr]

There's 2 boxes under the gpus, did they give two neon signs or what?

Oh that's the A990 (DG2-1024).

jk

 

[Ruru]

Looks promising. Though the placement of the USB connector looks stupid.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I know I'm late to this seemingly active party, but nice press kit!

The design of these cards is growing on me! Very sleek and smooth.

Looks promising. Though the placement of the USB connector looks stupid.

They could have put it on the end, but that would limit the number of cases the card would fit into.

while you wait for our in-depth performance reviews of both cards.

My prediction is that they will be close to Intel's claims and as a result will be very competitive.

 

[ET3D]

The company also claims that XeSS is technologically on-par with DLSS 2 and FSR 2.0, so neither NVIDIA nor AMD can get ahead of Intel using these two features.

That's a weird statement considering that FSR is pure open source and can work on virtually any card.

 

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard what cpu will you be using for testing ? .. i recommend ryzen 7700x or 12900k

Same config as our previous VGA review test bench. I spent 1 month retesting everything, so 7700X wasn't available at the time.

These are mid-range cards, so CPU choice really doesn't matter.

Later this year will look into upgrade options, either Zen 4 or Raptor Lake

 

[Pepamami]

What cards have you experienced coil whine with?

Alot, its like a lottery on last gens (rtx 3xxx and radeons 6xxx): got a Gigabyte with whine, but other asus Tuf or MSI got no obvious whine (kinda) with same PSU.
I am asking Intel to make cards with coil whine illegal, like some kind of quality check.

 

[THU31]

Alot, its like a lottery on last gens (rtx 3xxx and radeons 6xxx): got a Gigabyte with whine, but other asus Tuf or MSI got no whine with same PSU.
I am asking Intel to make cards with coil whine illegal, like some kind of quality check.

The problem is that coil whine is not just the card's issue. Last time I experienced coil whine was 2014 with the GTX 970. But I was using a low-end PSU (under $50). When I replaced the PSU with the Corsair RM650, the coil whine went away.

And I have not experienced it since then (1080, 2070 SUPER, 3080).

It is kind of like the transient spikes issue. GPU makers say it is the PSU makers' responsibility. PSU makers say it is the GPU makers' responsibility. Who is right?

 

[Sithaer]

Alot, its like a lottery on last gens (rtx 3xxx and radeons 6xxx): got a Gigabyte with whine, but other asus Tuf or MSI got no obvious whine (kinda) with same PSU.
I am asking Intel to make cards with coil whine illegal, like some kind of quality check.

It does feel like a random lottery, ever since I had a coil whiny PSU and a EVGA GTX 1070 I dread that crap whenever I buy new hardware that could whine.
PSU was a Cooler Master MWE 650 Gold that had a low pitched whine as long as the system had any sort of power on so I had to switch the entire system completely off whenever I went to the bed else I could hear it even there..
1070 was a EVGA FTW ACX 3.0 that had a weird buzz noise whenever the fans were spinning, otherwise it wasn't doing it so that was a weird one. Previous owner claimed that he never heard it or didn't notice cause he kept the PC under his desk while mine is on top right next to me. 'good that I play with a headset on so it wasn't a big deal'


Current Asus TuF RTX 3060 Ti does not whine luckily, btw almost all cards can whine if its pulling high enough FPS w/o limit in place.
My RX 570 wasn't whiny by default but in game menus pulling 100s of FPS did make it whine but nothing during actual gameplay.

I also wish it was taken more seriously during quality check but since it doesn't really affect actual performance/life span no one really cares, I'm not sure but I think it was Corsair 'don't quote me on that' who made a claim that they don't consider PSU coil whine as a fault/reason for warranty RMA cause its not an issue only an annoyance. 'yeah thanks..'

 

[Pepamami]

The problem is that coil whine is not just the card's issue. Last time I experienced coil whine was 2014 with the GTX 970. But I was using a low-end PSU (under $50). When I replaced the PSU with the Corsair RM650, the coil whine went away.

And I have not experienced it since then (1080, 2070 SUPER, 3080).

It is kind of like the transient spikes issue. GPU makers say it is the PSU makers' responsibility. PSU makers say it is the GPU makers' responsibility. Who is right?

I first faced with Coil Whine problem on Radeon 7970, later I switched to GTX 780, that have no whine problem, after 780 I switched to gtx 1070, that got that ugly vrm sounds again, I tried various PSUs from Seasonic, Corsair, and Superflower. It is not only PSU, its GPU makers problem too, most of them just dont care. I want to be clear about Coil Whine problem, I dont want to buy the card, that make ton of weird VRM noises.

 

[yeeeeman]

An A990 would be a huge surprise

 

[Cowboystrekk]

Looks promising!

 

[vmarv]

I like them, they're good looking, small, slim and with a clean elegant design.
I wonder if Intel will try to compete also in the professional market.
Maybe will see Intel developing a Vulkan rendering engine and plugin for Blender and the other 3D modeling programs.
On the other end, this new contender could push game developers to work more on Vulkan support... if Intel will give them money for that.

 

[tvshacker]

@W1zzard Any chance of reviewing a 6700 (non XT) any time soon? Where I live there is a Sapphire RX 6700 for less than 400€ (below what most 6600XTs currently cost), and besides Ray Tracing performance, I believe it would put a dent on Intel's price/perf claims.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I like them, they're good looking, small, slim and with a clean elegant design.

Same, I dig on these cards.

 

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard Any chance of reviewing a 6700 (non XT) any time soon? Where I live there is a Sapphire RX 6700 for less than 400€ (below what most 6600XTs currently cost), and besides Ray Tracing performance, I believe it would put a dent on Intel's price/perf claims.

No plans at this time, I could ask Sapphire for a sample, just need to find time for the review

 

[Warrior24_7]

These cards are causing quiet excitement and look good so far. I can’t wait for the reviews! I’m buy the RTX 4090 Ti, but these cards do have me interested. I just hope fanboyism doesn’t taint the review process. We need honest reviews of this new card.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I can’t wait for the reviews!

Same here. And as we've been seeing, those cards are in the hands of reviewers, so we know they're coming.

 

[wheresmycar]

You should also hope that they don't blow their trust fund up, that they built by fleecing avg consumers for over a decade! FFS they had MSDT limited to four cores for about a decade & an i7 7xxxu was a dual core ~ yes because THE NORTH REMEMBERS

No seriously if they want this to be a long term venture Intel needs to plan for the future & execute much better than they have for the last half a decade!

Honestly at this point, its just nice to have a fresh DISRUPTOR in the market... the 2-man overbearing race and exploitative dominance infuriates the living day lights outta me. So yeah, regardless of Intels history i'm open to anything and everything and hope they hit the mark guns blazing... (or i just wanna see Holes in Nvidias pants for once lol... if that blows yet another Trust fund, they better tap into shareholder privileges to make it happen).

These cards are causing quiet excitement and look good so far. I can’t wait for the reviews! I’m buy the RTX 4090 Ti, but these cards do have me interested. I just hope fanboyism doesn’t taint the review process. We need honest reviews of this new card.

I had this in-depth, all-embracing and exhaustive review prepared especially for you:

"TOO BLOODY EXPENSIVE for me"

One thing that concerns me is the plastic shroud surrounding the fin stack. It looks pretty but it's also the exact same mistake that XFX made with their THICC II cooler where the community simply removed the shroud to gain 12-15C improvements in thermals.

I could be wrong, but it looks to me like the critical heatsink exhaust areas are all sealed shut with plastic, and only the top half of the finstack, perpendicular to the direction of fan airflow, is even visible.

Yeah you're right, i missed picking up on it... that is a little odd! It looks like the heat is being contained at the top part of the heatsink with no top parallel exit points... it would be interesting to see how effective the bottom cut out exhaust works although this top-2-bottom circularly routing channel doesnt look promising.

 

[tvshacker]

No plans at this time, I could ask Sapphire for a sample, just need to find time for the review

Powercolor also has one, but it doesn't have a backplate.

 

[Kovoet]

10 more days lads

 

[Space Lynx]

10 more days lads

My guess is it will match a 3070 in some games, but mostly tie the 3060 and 3060 ti in majority of games. Combine that with XeSS, FSR 2.0+, and for $329 still a good deal imo.

All depends if it can run older games fine, or if the new tech just crashes those older games. but yeah I am seriously considering a 13400f when it comes out for hopefully $199 launch, and this gpu for $329, will be a solid build for my 165hz 1080p setup.

for 4k I will just stick with my PS5 I guess (which I haven't opened my PS5 yet, but I will soon for Ragnarok)