Hardware Breakdown Presents: Intel's Arc A770 Limited Edition discrete graphics card
Last week at the Innovation 2022 event, Intel unveiled the much anticipated Arc A770 and A750 discrete graphics cards. Also, at the event, Intel showed off its top-end GPU, the Arc A770 Limited edition.
The Arc A770 Limited Edition is our pick for this month's Hardware Breakdown. With good reason, this discrete graphics card from Intel has garnered attention from many tech pundits. According to Intel, regarding performance, the card is expected to rival Nivida's RTX 3060 Ti, going as far as to say it will outperform what Nvidia has to offer.
With claims like that, it's only fitting we at Tekspecz examine the integral components under the hood of Arc A770 (Limited Edition) because Intel may finally have a discrete graphics card done right.
The graphics processing unit
Constructed on the Xe HPG microarchitecture, the Arc A770 GPU features 32 Xe-Cores. In addition, it has 32 ray tracing units, with a core clock speed for the measures at 2.1GHz. Interestingly, the Arc A770 TDP ( thermal design power) is 225 watts compared to Nvidia's RTX 3060 Ti TDP, which is 200 watts.
The video RAM
The memory type for the Arc A770 is GDDR6, with a 16GB memory capacity (there is also an 8GB model). The graphics memory interface is 256-bit, with memory bandwidth measuring 560GB/s, a 17.0 Gbps memory speed.
I/O Display support
You wouldn't find any graphics card that does not support HDMI and DisplayPort output. For example, the Arc A770 graphics card has a DP 2.0 port and HDMI 2.1. But a true testament to a top-end graphics card is the maximum resolution it can handle per each port, 4096 x 2160 max resolution HDMI, 7680 X 4320 max resolution DP.
