None of the A-series, then, will be very expensive, even by 2022 standards.

Intel Arc Alchemist release date

Yes!

Specifically, the Arc A750, the Arc A770, and the Arc A770 Limited Edition i.e.

A render of an unidentified Intel Arc Alchemist graphics card.

the ones with confirmed prices will all release on October 12th 2022.

Actually, the A380 is technically out already,but only in China.

Some retailers are also selling it for around 1300 Yuan, which is about 158 / $192.

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Ah, Xe cores.

Expect the higher-tier Alchemist cards to have more Xe cores on board than the A380.

To boost performance, games are rendered at lower-than-native resolution.

A render of an Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card.

DLSS also does this, whereas FSR simply upscales whatever AA the game was already using.

Also like DLSS and FSR, XeSS will require games to actively implement support for it.

The word, unfortunately, is decidedly not good.

The Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card onstage at Intel Innovation 2022.

Hardware Unboxed, for example, benchmarked a Gunnir-made A380 paired with an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X.

Still, what weve seen so far hasnt been very compelling.

The one piece of unqualified good news seems to be Arc Alchemists AV1 video encoder.

A promotional slide detailing the Intel Arc A750 price and release date.

Arc A-series cards will be a cheaper option, though.

A render of the Intel Arc A380 graphics card as it appears in a Chinese press release.

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Intel executive Raja Koduri standing next to a presentation on Intel Arc GPUs.

A bar graph showing how the Intel Arc A750 performs against the Nvidia RTX 3050, according to Intel.