Is the Intel Arc A770 16GB Worth It in 2024?

Is it worth considering the Intel Arc A770 if you're building a desktop computer in 2024? Well, both yes and no- but there seem to be some identifiable trends that may help you come to a conclusion as to whether or not it's the right card for your machine!

The Intel Arc A770 is a performance segment graphics card launched as a part of their first generation, code-named Alchemist, of discrete graphics cards! Surprisingly though, Intel has been in the GPU business for decades and you have probably experienced one of their GPUs integrated into a CPU. By percentage of devices sold with Intel graphics, they account for the majority of graphics solutions sold per year- however can their mobile expertise translate to the high performance, high power budget desktop discrete market? Well... surprisingly yes and no...

Test System Specs:
- Intel Core i5-13600k, 5.5GHz-P, 4.0GHz-E
- Corsair H150i 360mm AIO
- Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Elite AX DDR4
- 64GB 3600MT/s G.Skill DDR4
- Intel Arc A770 16GB Sparkle Titan OC
- WDB SN770 1TB PCIe 4.0 for games
- Samsung 970 Evo 1TB PCIe 3.0 for OS/Boot
- 650W EVGA PSU
- Resizable BAR Turned On for Testing

A GPU is a separate bank of ALUs and FPUs, designed to offload heavily parallelizable calculations from the main CPU onto a dedicated chip. The Graphics Card refers to the entire sub-system, containing the PCB, Memory, and Cooling solution.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:36 Preface
1:10 3D Game performance
3:52 FPS per $ comparisons
5:41 Worth it?
8:33 Guinea Pig Cam

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[nathanielenochs]

The developers weren’t given a chance to optimize their games for the Intel arc series cards

[DeadCat-]

My 3060ti is in my backup PC. My a77016 is my primary GPU now.

[Saabjock]

I purchased the A770-16GB LE back in late December of 2022.
Somehow I largely avoided the early in-game driver issues, though I did fight a bit with at least three installers.
The key to a good ARC experience (in my case) was not installing ARC control.
I did not encounter the resource hogging in the Task Manager or the constant annoying popups.
Overall, it has been a very good experience.
I even use my card for VR.

[USArmyVet]

Yes it is worth it. It gives me solid 1440p performance.

[nickg]

I’ve considered the ARC A750 for a budget build and coming off a Gaming laptop since the GPU apocalypse has receded some.
Limited edition is what I have my eyes set on, too bad the A770 isn’t made any further.

[mariolis]

Also, for personal/moral reasons, I am unwilling to buy Nvidia at all for my next GPU purchase, only considering Intel and AMD options, all my previous gpu purchases were nvidia as they were the best VFM at the time when I made them (750ti in 2014 and 1660ti in 2019) but now I see the increasing monopoly nvidia enjoys and the close-source nature of their software as a threat, and so, I want to support the alternatives no matter what

But, even if that wasnt the case, Nvidia's lack of VRAM would be a turn-off regardless

[shannonrhoads]

I am using an A770 LE I got used, and I have had no major issues, but I was a late adopter. I may be an outlier. I will point out that I had some odd graphics glitches in decade-old titles like Champions Online, Neverwinter Online and Star Trek Online - all coincidentally from the same studio using the same engine as I understand it and possibly based on DX9 or a DX9to11 kludge already. Minor settings changes corrected these issues, since the card defaulted to its max settings caused antialiasing and brightness issues in these old games. The even older City of Heroes and Earth & Beyond Emulator work just fine, for reasons I can't identify. Talk about niche cases, though! For me, it's been more than adequate, and solid enough that I am looking carefully at the Battlemage cards as well as nVidia and AMD offerings for my next build. Of course, since I have a reasonably solid system as is, I might just skip a couple upgrade cycles and see what is happening and if Intel gets to the Celestial/Druid cards with this level of progress. Now, *that* will be interesting to see...

[paulboyce]

My impression is that the architecture in ARC is much more playable and more detail with lot better frame time. 1080p you might get more FPS from 4060 but I would argue the experience is better from the ARC. This shows to me the difference in architecture that on Nvidia tries to fill the gaps and inconsistency of the frame time by doubling the FPS. So the reality is more like dividing the FPS of the Nvidia by 2 to have more accurate comparison or multiply the ARC by 2. This would make more sense when talking 4k. 40FPS treshold and over the ARC is very playable. Maybe even 30FPS. Compare that to 4060 that can't deliver on 60FPS or even 120FPS that you would get from 4070ti for example. I put this to the CPU/GPU pairing and REBAR/E-Cores. Also has to be said the bus on Nvidia is not capable. ARC does twice the work but still only show the single results. Twice meaning GPU + CPU. So is it fair to claim 30FPS from the ARC actually equals 60FPS performance. It is a bit of a gray area. But what comes to play-ability it is clear that ARC can with lot less FPS. I think this is also the reason why INTEL gave us a tool to pair the ARC and compare to the right CPU because it has a huge impact on the performance.

[MrSamadolfo]

🙂 i like it for an extra pc in the house, i was thinking of that blue card and throw it in a Blue Sky Two Case

[darkmolo]

helpful because im using 1080p as its the highest my monitor can go

[maverickwolf]

intel's chipset is enough to compete against the 4080. All they have to do is make the plugins work as they should

[Feyolen]

its interesting that as time goes on, intel could be in the GPU game once the software support is there

[daviddelucasruiz]

Honestly, when Intel Arc A770 matures with the drivers, it will surpass the RTX 3060 Ti, and let's hope that the Intel Arc A770 16GB graphics card will pull GTA VI when it comes out in 2026, it will pull it high at 60 fps

[EnriquezWicked]

i have this exact card and play lots of fortnite. i play on the lowest settings at 1440p and get about 120 fps give or take. doesnt hinder my gameplay. i feel like intel is coming a long way and im pretty excited to see what they can do.

[LeGoooze]

I have a 6700 XT which I love and performs very well at 1080p. However if I had more disposable income and the Arc weren't as expensive as they are here I would like to have an A770 and tinker with it. Intel indeed make something great with the Alchemist architecture and it shows that increasing resolution does not halve the framerate like on other cards. I still Intel needs to iron out some issues on their drivers, but I believe Arc Alchemist will age like fine wine as long as Intel doesn't pull the plug.

[TheOakRoom]

It's clear that it's hard to disrupt when the software is written for graphics purposes - games, design software, video editeing, you name it. this is exactly why as Intel's driver team work with the industries and in return, the performance increases accordingly. We need Intel to do well here as consumers as while AMD is still punching up, NVIDIA needs to be made to care and kept honest by good and innovative competition!

[Michi-goxi]

I'm building a PC for a GNU/Linux workstation and I plan on getting an A750 or rx6600 :) Whichever performs the most decently on recent kernels

[desktopstu]

Ive got the Acer 16gb card version, its got a weird blower and pass through fan set up. Works great and I only paid £170 for it, but its not particularly quiet when pushed. It does have a zero fan spin setting though when not being heavily utilised which is really handy.
I onl really play World of Tanks and its great on that.

[robertforrest]

Do you know this card perfoms with WOW Dragonflight?

[shourav]

Here in bd, arc a770 is the cheapest option where rx 6600 is about 330 $ and 7600 is 345 $ and arc a770 is 340$ . Noto to mention the goat cards 3060 is 450$, 4060 is 440$ and 3060 ti and 4060 ti is above 500$
.so i was kind of force to get arc A770 😢