Intel’s Arc desktop graphics cards will launch in June, and they’ve just captured a potential value index that, at first glance, is disappointing for those hoping Team Blue will move down the throat of the dominant desktop duopoly. However, let’s not get carried away with consternation (we’ll see why later in this story).
The valuable suggestions were summed up in Intel’s scavenger hunt contest that was presented some time ago, where winners get a set of freebies, adding a shiny new Arc GPU (with the desktop flagship as first prize, naturally).
Regular leaker La Frite David, one of the winners, posted the email detailing the award on Twitter.
yes pic. twitter. com/ikl0WN8pnUA28 April 2022
As you can see, the total prize is set at $700 (US), which corresponds to the package containing the Arc “performance” graphics card, some Arc brand products and 3 months of PC Game Pass.
So, to get the approximate retail value of the GPU itself, we can simply guess and subtract the cost of the other two bits of the package, i. e. $45 for the pass and, say the same or more or less for the commercial treats. .
That leaves us with a rough estimate of a value of $600 (around £480, AU$840; currency conversions in the GPU pricing domain are pretty useless) for what deserves to be the fastest Intel Arc GPU of the moment.
Rock Paper Shotgun found that another post on Twitter (TheMalcore) won a flagship set of Arc (“premium”) GPUs and shared the estimated cost of the $900 prize, which seems to recommend a value of $800 (about $640/AU$1,120) for the graphics card when it launched.
In fact, it’s attractive to get a rough concept of pricing, but what we’ve glimpsed here might seem disappointing at first glance, as we discussed at the beginning. Keep in mind that the Arc flagship graphics card is rumored to also be simply roughly equivalent to Nvidia’s RTX 3070 Ti in terms of functionality (a lot of seasonings are needed, of course) and that the Team Green GPU has a $600 MSRP (so Intel would be a more expensive third party, in theory).
However, we want to take this potential Intel price very cautiously for apparent reasons. First of all, the prize price is just an estimate and can overvalue (or underestimate) the lot, a bit, and we don’t know if, for example, the product may have a price greater than a symbolic quantity.
In fact, according to TheMalcore, intel’s treasure hunt people haven’t even made a decision on which items will be included with the graphics card, indicating that the price of the prize is a very rough guess.
Also, Intel likely hasn’t set the final value for those Arc GPUs yet, as we’re still a month, or maybe at most two months, away from launch. very late June, and that’s precisely what the most cynical players expect. )
Since the position in the GPU market is moving quite a bit right now and thankfully, costs are starting to normalize after a long era of relentless inflation and stock shortages, Intel will most likely have to wait until the last moment to finalize the costs to position its graphics cards. to rivals AMD and Nvidia.
SoArray even though it looks like a strong enough value index with Arc desktop GPUs very close now, we couldn’t read much. In short, if you’re disappointed with this news, then you’re not, right now. it is inappropriate to draw anything other than very vague conclusions, which can easily turn out to be wrong.
Darren is a freelancer who writes news and articles for TechRadar (and T3) on a wide variety of computing topics, adding processors, GPUs, diverse hardware, VPN, antivirus, and more. He has written about generation for almost 3 decades and has written books in his spare time (his first novel, “I Know What You Did at the Last Supper”, was published through Hachette UK in 2013).
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