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It’s a moment the gaming world has been waiting for. When the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition went on sale on 12 October, a third player not only entered the gaming graphics card market but did so with a genuinely competitive product.
Technically, it isn’t the first Intel card to be based on Intel’s Alchemist GPU – the entry-level Arc A380 saw a limited release in China earlier this year – but the A770 is the first true gaming card by Intel, along with the Arc A750, which I review opposite.
Alchemist inside
The architecture powering Alchemist cards is called Xe-HPG, or High Performance Graphics. It’s closely related to the Iris Xe (Xe-LP) graphics found in laptops, but there are numerous changes to tune the Xe architecture for gaming PCs.
