Should You Buy an Intel Arc A770 or RTX 4060?

If you have $300 to spend on a GPU should you buy an Intel Arc A770 or Nvidia RTX 4060? In this video, the next in our "Ultimate PC Component Fighting Championship" series battle series, we are going to find out. Our UpcFC series is focused on helping you make the tough choices when building your dream PC. Choices like should I buy CPU X or CPU Y, should I buy GPU X or GPU Y, should I use an air cooler or AIO, these are all profound life changing questions that we take very seriously here at Blackbird PC Tech. In this series we are going to help you make the right choice by pitting two components against each other in the PC octagon to see who wins. For this video our focus will be on Intel’s top Arc Alchemist GPU, with the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition 16GB in the red corner taking on the PNY GeForce RTX 4060 Verto Dual Fan in the blue corner.

Remember, it's not rocket science, it's Lego … my goal is to help you make the right component choices and put them together the right way, every time.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:14 UpcFC Series Overview
00:52 Intel Arc Series GPU Teething Challenges
03:53 Test Setup & Methodology
05:26 Benchmarks featuring Bruce Buffer
08:00 Intel Arc Battlemage & Celestial
08:58 Who Is The Winner & Why?
12:01 Wrap-Up

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[kspfan]

Sparkle A770 16GB is $250-200 at microcenter in some of their in-person only cpu/mobo/mem/gpu combos. It's really a no-brainer if u want to build a mid-range rig and live near a microcenter.

[jipillow]

I really want Intel to stay in the gpu market. More competition is better for consumers

[toodreammy]

OMG you really got a bruced buffer cameo had me dying 🤣. I'm gonna pay him to say my name now but you earned the sub

[jmdesales]

"Good choice for replacing their aging RTX 3060" me looking at my RTX 2060 "No you're still young he didn't mean that"....

[RGUSTTU]

I'm going to buy an A770 this summer.. based off of the myriad of review and test videos i think this card will be sufficient for my use case and current hardware. I'm going to be upgrading from a 1050 ti so i'm happy that i wont have to play a majority of my games on low/performance mode settings anymore. Also, going from 4GB to 16GB is going to feel very comfortable.

[BumpkinBros]

Great editing m8, Earned my sub! I just don't want to overspend on a gpu lol going to a video editing pc with a I9 12900k

[JoshuaEpperson]

My a770 oc is rockin greatly with my my Ryzen setup. Make sure to have 64 gigs of ram!

[InvestDiva]

Great video as always!! It’s good to see that Intel has finally fixed their drivers.

[ChairmanMeow]

I honestly think I'd take the A770 easily

[therpp]

PPL HAVE TO ALSO REALISE THAT INTEL GPU'S ARE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK.. JUST LIKE WITH RYZEN WHEN THEY HAD DRIVER PROBLEMS ON LAUNCH AND FOR A WHILE AFTER... AND CONSIDERING THE ARC GPU'S WAS A YR BEHIND THE 40 SERIES.. INTEL HAS DONE VERY WELL CATCHING UP TO WHERE THEY ARE NOW... TRADING SOME GOOD BLOWS WITH THAT 40 SERIES CARD .... CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT THE BATTLEMAGE CARDS WILL BE LIKE...

[ishrakahmedevan]

Should I buy the RTX 4060 or ARC A770 for 1080p gaming? price is the same here but I would like to add that I would probably use either of these GPUs for atleast a good solid 5 years or so
I just need your suggestion, please. =)

[Markus]

Arc A770. Better performance, 2x the VRAM, every update it gets better and faster. And you can actually use Raytracing without upscaling. The 4060 was a big letdown. A really small upgrade over the 3060. I have a 4080 in my laptop. That is a really good card. But these are expensive cards and laptops. When on a budget buy the Arc. It has a lot of potential left. And from what I heard from Intel they are working on new translation layers that should significantly boost the DX11 and DX12 performance. It is a 6nm 406mm2 chip. So the potential is there.

[ajangurung]

if they can give strong performance against their competitors with reasonable price for little long. i believe thay can step on better position of gpu market.

[ItsDeeno]

I WOULD BUY THE A770 AS IT HAS 16GB OF VRAM AND ALSO HARDWARE COMPARABLE TO THE 3070

[geofftottenperthcoys]

The RTX 3060/4060 and A770 are all within $10AUD of each other on Amazon AU. I am looking at getting the 3060 myself.

[MKMK]

Wow, thanks for the great comparison! I'm looking for a GPU. My cash is very limited. My setup is an AMD 4650g CPU, 16GB RAM, Corsair 650W PSU. What is the cheapest reasonable GPU to upgrade to? I wanted to play the old DOOM games, but it says my CPU doesn't support Ray Tracing. What are my options? I played Tomb Raider 2016, the one before Rise of the TombRaider and it did okay with just the CPU, but I need more and something that will play the old DOOM games. Thanks

[JamesSmith-swnk]

Good video. 2 decent cards but I think Intel was being a little too optimistic if they thought 3060 12gb owners were going to upgrade to the Intel A770.

[digitalizeddeath]

i have an Core I3 12100, With an Arc A750 and 32 GB Ram and an Intel P670 SSD 2TB NVME PCIe 3.0 yes i know its not 4.0 but it has capacity and the speed is half decent and its the last Intel SSD ever.

[arbiter]

Right now intel is only a 3rd option. They likely make up ground over next few generations of gpu but probably far getting close to nvidia's top cards like 4090. There is a lot of $ in mid range lines around 4060/4070 performance though they could get a piece of.

[CTSega]

Intel's driver support could easily make up this difference in the next few months.