Intel’s highest-end graphics card lineup is approaching its retail launch, and meaning we’re getting extra solutions to essential market questions of costs, launch dates, efficiency, and availability. Today, Intel answered extra of these A700-series GPU questions, they usually’re paired with claims that each card within the Arc A700 collection punches again at Nvidia’s 18-month-old RTX 3060.

After saying a $329 value for its A770 GPU earlier this week, Intel clarified it could launch three A700 collection merchandise on October 12: The aforementioned Arc A770 for $329, which sports activities 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence; an extra Arc A770 Limited Edition for $349, which jumps as much as 16GB of GDDR6 at barely larger reminiscence bandwidth and in any other case sports activities in any other case similar specs; and the marginally weaker A750 Limited Edition for $289.

If you missed the memo on that sub-$300 GPU when it was introduced, the A750 LE is basically a binned model of the A770’s chipset with 87.5 % of the shading models and ray tracing (RT) models turned on, together with an ever-so-slightly downclocked increase clock (2.05 GHz, in comparison with 2.1 GHz on each A770 fashions).

Intel beforehand confirmed that new purchases of Arc A700 collection GPUs made by January 2023 would include a bundle of downloadable video games and software program, together with this 12 months’s remake of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Gotham Knights, and extra.

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In a convention name with the press, Intel representatives declined to make clear preliminary cargo counts for its first three A700-series GPUs, apart from to counsel low inventory for the larger-memory A770 LE: “I believe we will promote out of that one in a short time,” Intel Graphics Fellow Tom Petersen advised Ars. He was reluctant to make clear whether or not he anticipated early sellouts of Intel’s A700 GPUs, “We do not know if we will have a provide drawback or a requirement drawback. I hope we now have a requirement drawback.” He then confirmed that Intel plans to supply its personal in-house GPU fashions over time, as an alternative of slicing off “LE” manufacturing whereas demand would possibly nonetheless exist.

Unfortunately, Intel compounded the GPUs’ availability query by not confirming which add-in board (AIB) companions could be a part of the A700 collection’ October rollout. Petersen kicked that may down the street by suggesting these third-party GPU producers will make their very own bulletins, then talked about an curiosity in increasing its record of Arc-powered AIBs.