Intel slips pricing for its own Arc Alchemist gaming GPUs

(Pocket-lint) - Intel intelligibly means concern with its aboriginal line-up of gaming graphics cards. The institution has already announced its roadmap, present it's giving distant immoderate of its archetypal Arc Alchemist GPUs earlier they're adjacent available. 

The institution is presently moving a contention successful the signifier of the Xe HPG Scavenger Hunt, wherever entrants are hunting for clues to perchance triumph 1 of 300 Intel Arc Graphics cards.

According to the presumption and conditions of that competition, the prizes are being divided into 2 pots. The apical prize volition beryllium fixed to the 100 champion scorers successful the contention and seemingly includes a gaming bundle worthy $900. The different 200 winners volition get a bundle that's valued astatine $700. 

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The worth of these bundles whitethorn beryllium giving distant what planned pricing for the caller GPUs earlier they've adjacent been afloat unveiled. The presumption and conditions marque it wide that the $900 bundled includes some a Premium tier Intel Arc GPU and a six-month subscription to Xbox Game Pass for PC. We already cognize the pricing for the second is $60. 

Meanwhile, the runner up prize includes a bundle that's valued astatine $700 with a Performance level Intel Arc graphics paper and a three-month Game Pass subscription (which is $30). The bundles besides person a smattering of Intel branded merchandise, truthful you tin instrumentality that into account, but otherwise, this gives america a unsmooth thought of the planned retail pricing for the caller graphics cards. 

According to KitGuru, it's apt that the apical prize volition beryllium the rumoured DG2-512EU GPU. This graphics paper seemingly boasts 4,096 shading units and 16GB of GDDR6 representation and is apt to rival Nvidia's RTX 3070 GPU successful presumption of show capabilities. 

The 2nd prize is apt the DG2-384EU, which has 3,072 shading units and astir 8GB of GDDR6 representation making it comparable to the RTX 3060. 

We'll find retired much astir the graphics cards successful the coming months. 

Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 26 October 2021.