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Sparkle Arc A770 ROC Review

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The Sparkle Arc A770 ROC is the company's newest Intel Arc graphics card. Intel's discrete GPU design has been on the market for two years now, with the next generation expected soon. With the "ROC," Sparkle wants to establish a special name for custom-design graphics cards with a factory overclock, similar to ASUS "ROG." we've known Sparkle for many years, back in the day it was an NVIDIA GeForce add-in-card partner going back as far as the 2000s. Nowadays, as a brand, Sparkle is owned by the TUL Corporation, a Taiwan-based OEM giant that also runs the popular AMD Radeon brand PowerColor.

The Arc A770 is Intel's top SKU for this generation, the other models are Arc A750 and A580. Both the Arc A770 and A750 are priced well under the $300 mark, and target the 1080p gaming space that sees the likes of the GeForce RTX 3060, Radeon RX 6600 series, and the RX 7600 battle it out. It's possible to game at 1440p if you know your way around your game's settings, or can take advantage of the XeSS upscaling feature, if your game supports it. The Arc "Alchemist" family of graphics cards are every bit as contemporary as the latest GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD. These meet the full DirectX 12 Ultimate feature-set, including real time ray tracing.

Over the past two years Intel's software team has been releasing countless driver optimization patches, have upped their Game Ready driver support, and are now on par with the other two GPU vendors in terms of release cadence.



The Sparkle Arc A770 is built on the same advanced 6 nm ACM-G10 silicon as its lower-tier counterpart, the A750. However, the A770 maximizes performance by enabling all 8 rendering slices present on the chip, resulting in a total of 32 Xe cores. This configuration translates to 512 execution units and an impressive 4,096 unified shaders. The graphics card is equipped with a robust memory subsystem, boasting 16 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit memory bus, operating at 16 Gbps and delivering a substantial memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s. Communication with the system is facilitated through a contemporary PCI-Express 4.0 x16 interface, making full use of PCI Resizable BAR for enhanced performance.

Sparkle's A770 ROC features a relatively compact triple-slot cooling solution incorporating an aluminium fin-stack heatsink with two fans, and a sleek cooler shroud in black plastic. The PCB on the other hand showcases a vibrant blue color scheme. Under the hood, the card uses the Intel reference PCB design, which means no corners have been cut. The GPU VRM has been strengthened and is now eight-phase, up from six phases on the original Intel card. Interestingly, despite the "OC" naming, the card ticks at reference card clock speeds of 210 MHz base and 2400 MHz boost. Memory is clocked at reference too, with 2187 MHz. Sparkle's card is currently listed online for $300, a small premium over the current baseline price of $270 for Arc A770.

Intel Arc A770 Market Segment Analysis
 PriceCoresROPsCore
Clock
Boost
Clock
Memory
Clock
GPUTransistorsMemory
RX 6500 XT$1401024322685 MHz2825 MHz2248 MHzNavi 245400M4 GB, GDDR6, 64-bit
Arc A580$1803072961700 MHzN/A2000 MHzACM-G1021700M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3050$1652560321552 MHz1777 MHz1750 MHzGA10612000M8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
Arc A750$22035841122050 MHzN/A2000 MHzACM-G1021700M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6600 XT$2052048642359 MHz2589 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2311060M8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RTX 3060$2203584481320 MHz1777 MHz1875 MHzGA10612000M12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 7600$2502048642250 MHz2625 MHz2250 MHzNavi 3313300M8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RX 7600 XT$3102048642470 MHz2755 MHz2250 MHzNavi 3313300M16 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RTX 4060$2853072481830 MHz2460 MHz2125 MHzAD10718900M8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
Arc A770$27040961282100 MHz2400 MHz2187 MHzACM-G1021700M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
Sparkle Arc
A770 ROC
$28040961282100 MHz2400 MHz2187 MHzACM-G1021700M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060 Ti$3004864801410 MHz1665 MHz1750 MHzGA10417400M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 4060 Ti$3804352482310 MHz2535 MHz2250 MHzAD10622900M8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RX 6700 XT$350
2560642424 MHz2581 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2217200M12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 3070$3205888961500 MHz1725 MHz1750 MHzGA10417400M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3070 Ti$3706144961575 MHz1770 MHz1188 MHzGA10417400M8 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
RX 6800$3403840961815 MHz2105 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 7700 XT$3703456962171 MHz2544 MHz2250 MHzNavi 3226500M12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 6800 XT$40046081282015 MHz2250 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
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