That said, AMD and Nvidia cards would also benefit from this feature at least somewhat, so you could reasonably expect a few extra frames per second for those cards, had they been tested with Resizable BAR enabled. Unleash your imagination and captivate audiences with rich digital content creation using a hyper advanced media engine, augmented by AI and accelerated by Intel® Deep Link technology. Create compelling content, powered by the first graphics card with support for all current leading media formats, and keep yourself up to date with the most advanced AV1 video encode capabilities. All told, then, the Intel Arc A770 turns out to be a surprisingly good graphics card for modern gaming titles that can sometimes even hold its own against the Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti. It can't hold a candle to the RX 7700 XT or RTX 4070, but it was never meant to, and given that those cards cost substantially more than the Arc A770, this is entirely expected.

You're also getting three DisplayPort 2.0 outputs and an HDMI 2.1 output, which puts it in the same camp as Nvidia's recent GPUs, but can't match AMD's recent move to DisplayPort 2.1, which will enable faster 8K video output. As it stands, the Intel Arc A770 is limited to 8K@60Hz, just like Nvidia. Will you be doing much 8K gaming on a 16GB card? Absolutely not, but as we get more 8K monitors next year, it'd be nice to have an 8K desktop running at 165Hz, but that's a very speculative prospect at this point, so it's probably not anything anyone looking at the Arc A770 needs to be concerned about.The introduction of new types of display-sync technology is another trend that has been popular in recent years. The company here has introduced three types of sync for its customers to use to adjust their gaming experience. The first, Adaptive Sync, is nothing new; it essentially works like V-Sync. The second, Speed Sync, aims to rush frames out to the monitor faster to avoid image tearing. The last, Smooth Sync, uses a dithering filter to try and mask screen tearing. At the time of this writing, Intel's Arc A770 has been on the market for about a year, and I have to admit, had I gotten the chance to review this card at launch, I would probably have been as unkind as many other reviewers were. Intel breaks up its architecture into "render slices", which contain 4 Xe Cores, which each contain 128 shaders, a ray tracing processor, and 16 matrix processors (which are directly comparable to Nvidia's vaunted tensor cores at least), which handle graphics upsampling and machine learning workflows. Both 8GB and 16GB versions of the A770 contain eight render slices for a total of 4096 shaders, 32 ray processors, and 512 matrix processors.

The power connector is an 8-pin and 6-pin combo, so you'll have a pair of cables dangling from the card which may or may not affect the aesthetic of your case, but at least you won't need to worry about a 12VHPWR or 12-pin adapter like you do with Nvidia's RTX 4000-series and 3000-series cards. Right out the gate, I'll say that if you are looking for one of the best cheap graphics cards for 1440p gaming, this card definitely needs to be on your list. It offers great 1440p performance for most modern PC titles that most of us are going to be playing and it's priced very competitively against its rivals. Intel classifications are for general, educational and planning purposes only and consist of Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCN) and Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) numbers. Any use made of Intel classifications are without recourse to Intel and shall not be construed as a representation or warranty regarding the proper ECCN or HTS. Your company as an importer and/or exporter is responsible for determining the correct classification of your transaction. DX10, and 9 is still a bit bambi legs however, so keep that in mind. Hopefully driver updates will fix this soon however. this card is easily a 3060 8gb level of performance on dx11 and dx12, as long as you make sure you are on the latest drivers.

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Though the synthetic test scores could show untapped potential in the graphics card that we aren’t currently seeing, for one reason or another, we can’t be sure we will ever see it perform specifically in gaming similar to how it did in these synthetic tests. We can be certain it won’t match its prowess in Furmark in games, as that would actually make it faster than our Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition! XeSS does not have frame generation though, and the matrix processors in the Arc A770 are not nearly as mature as Nvidia's 3rd and 4th generation tensor cores found in the RTX 3000-series and RTX 4000-series, respectively.

But taking the current performance results, and assuming we'd game at 1440p or 4K, this author would be highly tempted to buy one of these for personal use. Its current performance is good enough in recent games, and that large pool of RAM is hard to walk away from. Driver improvements and better consistency are still definitely needed, but the Arc A770 is a very promising card and may well improve like fine aged wine.

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I spent about two weeks with the Intel Arc A770 in total, with a little over half that time using it as my main GPU on my personal PC. I used it for gaming, content creation, and other general-purpose use with varying demands on the card. While the 26 fps average minimum fps at 4K means it's really not playable at that resolution even with XeSS turned on, with settings tweaks, or more modest ray tracing, you could probably bring that up into the low to high 30s, making 4K games playable on this card with ray tracing turned on. While this card is a bit underpowered compared to the current crop of graphics cards, it's low price and solid performance in modern games makes it a fantastic midrange card for gamers on a tight budget. John (He/Him) is the Components Editor here at TechRadar and he is also a programmer, gamer, activist, and Brooklyn College alum currently living in Brooklyn, NY. The Arc A770 Limited Edition is absolutely stunning, but it's very hard to find, which keeps it from getting full marks.

The card feels like a well-made, premium card should, and it even has a ring of RGB LEDs that you can control by connecting the card to a USB 2.0 header on your motherboard. This model also has three DisplayPort 2.0 ports and a single HDMI 2.1 port. RGB Lighting: Customize RGB lighting colors and effects and bring your Predator BiFrost Intel Arc A770 OC graphics card to life Among all the cards tested, the Intel Arc A770 was at nearly the bottom of the list with the RX 6700 XT, so the picture for this card might have been very different had it launched three years ago and it had to compete with the RTX 3000-series and RX-6000 series exclusively. In the end, this card performs like a last-gen card, because it is. The Arc A770 also has AV1 hardware-accelerated encoding support, meaning that streaming videos will look far better than those with only software encoding at the same bitrate, making this a compelling alternative for video creators who don't have the money to invest in one of Nvidia's 4000-series GPUs. Its maximum observed power draw of 191.909W is pretty high for the kind of card the A770 is, but it's not the most egregious offender in that regard. All this power meant that keeping it cool was a struggle, with its maximum observed temperature hitting about 74 ºC.That's something the RTX 4060 Ti can't manage thanks to its smaller frame buffer (8GB VRAM), and while the 16GB RTX 4060 Ti could theoretically perform better (I have not tested the 16GB so I cannot say for certain), it still has half the memory bus width of the A770, leading to a much lower bandwidth for larger texture files to pass through. As gamers ourselves, we’ve tried to ask we would buy this card for personal use. It's a perplexing question. There's the novelty factor of running a card that wasn’t powered by an AMD or Nvidia graphics chip. Part of us would worry that the performance issues and drivers wouldn’t improve, though, and we’d later regret the decision.