Intel's budget Arc graphics card just got a little cheaper. The Intel Arc A750 first launched for $289 last year and now, just four months later, it's getting a new low price of $249.The Arc
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Intel’s budget Arc graphics card just got a little cheaper. The Intel Arc A750 (opens in new tab) first launched for $289 last year and now, just four months later, it’s getting a new low price of $249.
The Arc A750’s price cut will be live from today, February 1, and applies to Intel’s own-brand Limited Edition model. That price cut is specifically for the US market, but Intel’s Tom Peterson confirms that approximately the same price cut will come into place elsewhere around the globe in due time.
The Arc A750 was already my marginal favourite out of the two Alchemist A7 graphics cards first launched in October last year, and its new price makes it more tantalising for gamers on a tight budget.
It’s a 1080p graphics card at its heart, though it’s fairly suitable for 1440p gaming, depending on the game. With 28 Xe-cores, just four cores shy of the Arc A770’s (opens in new tab) full complement, it’s actually not far off the pace of the bigger card in actual gaming performance. With 8GB of GDDR6 memory, it’s well-equipped for the sort of resolution and render quality you’d expect of a card with this sort of price tag. It’s also surprisingly well-equipped for ray tracing, and comes with support for hardware accelerated AV1 encode.
The new price places the Arc A750 in much closer contention with AMD’s cheaper RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT (opens in new tab) graphics cards in value for money. Back at launch, that was a fight the Arc A750 just couldn’t quite win.
