Intel Confirms Arc A750 Price Cut, Claims Big Performance Gains as Drivers Mature

Intel confirmed the price-cut for its Arc “Alchemist” A750 performance-segment graphics card that we earlier reported. The company also gave us a quick heads-up of just how far along the Arc 7-series graphics cards have matured in performance and features, over the months of driver updates. In particular, the company focused on how performance of the A750 is about 43% higher than it was at launch in DirectX 9 titles—an API the Xe-HPG graphics architecture doesn’t natively support.

Intel relies on a combination of D3D9 to D3D12 API translation, and game-specific optimization at the driver-level, to play DirectX 9 games. The company has been optimizing popular DirectX 9 titles over the past several months, and put out performance gains in a new presentation. Since launch, Intel has added XeSS support to over 35 games, and promises to expand the list. With its starting price now at $249, one can expect custom-design boards, such as the ASRock A750 Challenger OC and the GUNNIR A750 Photon, to be priced at or under $300, although the reference-design Intel A750 Limited Edition cards can be found in some places. Intel also announced that it is bundling “Nightingale,” and “The Settlers: New Allies” with pre-built desktops that combine 12th Gen or 13th Gen Core desktop processors and Arc A750 graphics cards.

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