Intel is offering a preview of the company's next Arc graphics card, the A750, a midrange product that seems poised to compete with Nvidia’s RTX 3060.
In a Friday video, Intel shows off the product’s design and includes some gaming benchmarks. The clip shows an Intel-created “limited edition” A750, which operates with two fans.
The benchmarks also reveal the A750 outperforms Nvidia’s RTX 3060 in five recent PC games, including Fortnite, Borderlands 3, and Control, while running the titles at a 1440p resolution, high graphics preset.
In the video, Intel marketing staffer Ryan Shrout briefly demonstrates the A750 running Cyberpunk 2077 on the high-quality graphics preset. The card manages to run the titles at around 60 frames per second at a 1440p resolution. “Now the performance of Arc won’t look like this in all games, but this demonstration was a great view of what Arc is capable of with the right game enablement and software engineering,” he says.
Friday’s announcement is just a tease. The company plans on revealing the launch date, hardware specs, price, and the ray-tracing features onboard at a later date. But Intel’s decision to compare the product to the RTX 3060 suggests the Arc A750 will be priced around $400.
The company also posted the video weeks after Intel began selling the first Arc desktop GPU, the A380, exclusively in mainland China. However, some early reviews show disappointing performance from the entry-level GPU, possibly due to problems with the software drivers.
As for the A750, Intel plans on sharing more benchmarks on its dedicated Arc website and through more videos from Shrout and other Intel staffers in the coming weeks before launching the Arc desktop graphics cards worldwide later this summer.