Intel’s budget Arc graphics card just got a little cheaper. Intel Arc A750 (opens in new tab) It launched last year at $289 and now, just four months later, has a new low price of $249.
The Arc A750 price cuts go into effect today, February 1st, and apply to Intel’s own branded limited edition models. The price cuts are specifically for the US market, but Intel’s Tom Peterson has confirmed that roughly the same price cuts will soon be available elsewhere around the world.
The Arc A750 was already my favorite of the first two Alchemist A7 graphics cards launched last October. Its new price makes it more attractive to gamers on a tight budget.
1440p games are pretty good for some games, but basically it’s a 1080p graphics card. 28 Xe cores, just 4 fewer cores than Arc A770 (opens in new tab) Real-world game performance isn’t far off the pace of the larger cards. Equipped with 8GB of his GDDR6 memory, it has more than enough resolution and rendering quality to expect from a card of this kind of price. It’s also amazingly ray-tracing capable and even supports his AV1 encoding with hardware acceleration.
The new pricing puts the Arc A750 in closer competition with AMD’s cheaper RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT. (opens in new tab) Graphics card with excellent cost performance. At launch, it was a battle the Arc A750 just couldn’t win. But this price adjustment means it’s on par with the RX 6600 and these two cards will hit multiple games at his 1080p and 1440p Ray enabled his tracing Then Intel actually leads AMD.
Before you buy the Arc A750 right away, there are a few things to consider. One is that the power consumption is much higher than the RX 6600 or RX 6600 XT. Honestly, that’s probably the card’s biggest drawback. Not a small power increase. The Arc A750 consumes an average of 211W when running 3x Metro Exodus at 4K, while the RX 6600 XT consumes 168W. Also, to get the best performance out of your Intel Arc A750, you need to make sure your PC parts support Resize BAR. Without this, it will be a big loss. Finally, Intel’s drivers have been a point of contention since release, with inconsistent performance between games, but as of today, Intel has sorted out the majority of his DX9 game support and its drivers I’m sure the is in much better shape overall.
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But Intel’s price adjustment means the Arc A750 will wipe out Nvidia’s RTX 3060. This is not so surprising. Unlike Intel and AMD, Nvidia’s more affordable GPUs don’t come cheap.Best price I found on Newegg today $369 (opens in new tab), it’s from Peladn, a manufacturer I’m not very familiar with. At the new price, Intel says the Arc A750 will offer 52% more performance per dollar than his RTX 3060, but certainly Intel in its calculations puts the average price of Nvidia’s card at $391. is below
According to the graph above, the RTX 3060 typically leads the Arc A750. That said, given the Arc A750’s new price tag, it’s not all that far ahead. That’s $120 less than the cheapest RTX 3060 I’ve found.
Currently, Nvidia’s cheapest discrete 30-series GPU is the RTX 3050, at around $290 at Newegg (opens in new tab) Today despite the $249 MSRP. That card is consistently the slowest budget GPU available today, so it hardly competes with the Arc A750.
However, Intel should sell enough of these cards to compete with AMD and Nvidia. Intel’s sales numbers may be just a fraction of the red or green teams’ numbers.
All things considered, however, Intel’s new $249 price tag is very compelling. There’s still something to be said about AMD’s RX 6000 series budget, but today’s PC gaming generally suffers from high minimum entry costs, while Intel shaves precious pennies off entry-level GPUs. I agree with you.
