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ASRock Intel Arc A770 Phantom Gaming D 8GB OC, 8GB DDR6, PCIe4, HDMI, 3 DP, 2200MHz Clock, 0dB Cooling, RGB, Overclocked £243.97 @ Amazon
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- Intel Arc A770 Graphics
- Intel Xe HPG Microarchitecture
- Intel Xe Super Sampling (XeSS)
- DirectX 12 Ultimate
Product description
OC Edition Great Performance. Delivers great performance which is more higher than reference cards based on the solid hardware design. Phantom Gaming 3X Cooling System For Cool and Silent. Crafted for the best balance between the thermal efficiency and silence by all the details. Ultra-fit Heatpipe Consolidated to Maximize the Contact. The heatpipes are consolidated to maximize the contact among each others and also the GPU baseplate for the optimized heat dissipation. Copper Base Maximize GPU Contact Area. With premium copper base heatsink design, the direct contact area to the GPU would be maximized to improve thermal transfer effectively. High-density Metal Welding Improve Heat Dissipation. Effectively isolate all coverage of the gap between pipe and stacked fins, hence improve heat dissipation effectively. Nano Thermal Paste Perfect Thermal Teamwork. Eliminate the gaps in the contact area to maximize heat transfer and thermal efficiency. Premium Thermal Pad Better Heat Transfer. The premium thermal pad helps to transfer the heat of the components to the heatsink, improving heat dissipation. Precise Screw Torque Optimized Mounting Pressure. ASRock adopts precise screw torque when assembling its graphics cards to optimize the cooler mounting pressure to improve thermal efficiency while avoiding damage to GPU die. 0dB Silent Cooling Spin For Cooling, Stop For Silence. The fan spins when the temperature goes high for the optimal cooling, and stops when the temperature goes low for the complete silence. Polychrome SYNC Create your own unique colorful light effects. With the integrated ARGB LEDs, you can create your own unique colorful light effects which can also be switched on and off. It can also be synchronized with your ASRock motherboards that support Polychrome SYNC. Stylish Metal Backplate Solid, Fancy, Cool. Designed to avoid PCB bending. The fancy outlook makes the graphic card more legendary in visual. It also helps to enhance cooling with the premium thermal pads equipped backside. Super Alloy Graphics Card SPS (Smart Power Stage) Dr.MOS design features the latest SPS (Smart Power Stage) technology. It’s optimized for monitoring current and temperature of each phase, thus delivering smoother and neater power to the GPU with enhanced performance and OC capability. Premium 100A Power Choke Compared to traditional chokes, ASRock’s premium 100A power chokes effectively make the saturation current up to three times better, thus providing enhanced and improved Vcore voltage to the graphics card. 2oz Copper PCB Using only carefully selected copper materials for PCB layers, 2oz Copper PCB delivers lower temperature and higher energy efficiency for overclocking. Matte Black PCB A new mysterious matte black and copper color scheme to match the prestigious components on ASRock's high-end graphics card. High Density Glass Fabric PCB High Density Glass Fabric PCB design that reduces the gaps between the PCB layers to protect the graphics card against electrical shorts caused by humidity. 8K Resolution Support Not only can it handles 4K graphics but also supports the next generation 8K video output for the ultimate visual experience. Supercharge your gaming. Dive into immersive, high-performance gaming with AI-enhanced XeSS upscaling and full support for DirectX* 12 Ultimate. Experience immersive high-performance gaming. Intel® Arc™ Control gives gamers options and controls to refine their gaming experience in an intuitive and modern layout. Get seamless driver updates, optimize your favorite games, stream from your home without interruption and more. Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) Take your gaming experience to the next level with AI-enhanced upscaling technology, enabling more performance with high image fidelity. DirectX* 12 Ultimate Support Fully compatible with the latest breakthroughs in graphics technologies, including ray tracing, variable rate shading, mesh shading and sampler feedback - the fundamentals for next-gen gaming. Unleash your creativity. Experience cutting-edge AI-accelerated content creation. With industry-first AV1 hardware encode and the advanced Intel® Xe Media Engine, the most comprehensive media capabilities1 are at your fingertips. Take center stage. Broadcast seamlessly with advanced streaming technologies enabled by Intel® Arc™ Control software. Elevate your gaming experience. Refine your gaming experience with Intel® Arc™ Control in an intuitive and modern layout. Get seamless driver updates and optimize many of your favorite games. Maximize your Intel® platform. Enhance your creation, gaming and streaming experiences with Intel® Deep Link Technology features by pairing Intel® Core™ processors with Intel® Arc™ graphics.
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sorted byI've not found a definitive answer, but it looks like the two versions have effectively the same performance.
It's also the case that many games look a lot better on low settings with ultra textures than they do on ultra with low textures. Texture quality is usually quite a destructive thing to lower. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a good example of that, where the low textures look like something straight from a PS2 game.
So even when these GPUs are struggling so much that you need to go down to low or medium settings to get a decent framerate, on the 16GB version you'll still be able to crank textures to ultra for a long time to come, providing a boost to visuals with no performance impact.
Or more likely they will continue to reply on Microsoft's D3D9On12 translation layer. That is git but unsure whether it gets true open source additions as if it was true open source then enthusiasts could fix certain games and Intel could lever that.
That Intel absolutely must have Resizable BAR on or suffer hugely is also an important point to mention. In fact, that should almost be a sticky on any Intel Arc deals so let me post it as a separate post too.
Various articles on this, but I'll link to TPU one
techpowerup.com/rev…tml
and the the main part of 1440P chart (1080P and 4K were similar):
For new builds with working Rebar options in the BIOS this is not that relevant, but for anyone who can't enable rebar it is.
I've been eyeing up the cheap intel arcs and I know the limitations due to the lack of rebar, however would I still not see an increase in performance?
Now GPU prices are set to crash (in the mid and low end), Intel would have to sell their future cards far too low to ever justify the mega expensive cutting edge mega die they'll need just to run a distant third in performance. So Intel is focusing on iGPU, GPU on the same substrate as CPU for notebooks, and a potential low end add-in GPU for basic PC systems sold in Asia and the third world. Together with the usual trendy exploration of AI on GPU.
Good gaming GPUs are a level of tech well beyond Intel- and heaven only knows, Intel has been trying for decades to make worthwhile graphics chips, and has purchased so many specialised graphics companies in a pathetic attempt to finally learn how to do it.
By that metric, I guess a latte will be £100k as well for the value in this.
This isn't their first crack at the discrete GPU market -
en.wikipedia.org/wik…740
There are still big issues with some games, particularly older games, some of which won’t play at all or are so bad it’s not worth trying.