Should Intel Arc stomp? Here’s what the PCGH editors have to say about it

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Should Intel Arc stomp?

Background: Intel Arc Alchemist aka Xe HPG

Calendar week 32 again had some fresh graphics card rumors ready – and unpleasant facts for Intel. The processor market leader has been developing a brand new graphics card line for more than half a decade in order to take market share from AMD and Nvidia. As you faithful PCGH readers will already know, the first products of this endeavor have already seen the light of day, albeit with little fanfare and only in Asia. It should be around the world soon, when the gaming graphics cards called Arc A750 and Arc A770 will finally start. A performance in the area of ​​the Geforce RTX 3060 (Ti) is targeted. But the bad news about the first Arc generation called Alchemist does not stop.

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) analysts are not happy with the development of Intel’s Arc program. One post recommends that Intel’s AXG (Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics) division is best sold or closed, given its calculated $2.1 billion loss since the first quarter of 2021. After around six years of development, there is simply not enough to show for it and you no longer have to deal with the special effects that plagued the competition. Nvidia and partners currently have so many cards in stock – after the bad C-words Corona and Crypto – that this will probably also affect the launch of Ada alias RTX 4000. The bottom line is that Intel doesn’t see the hardware as the root of the problem, but rather the wobbly driver. You can read bluntly what the PCGH editors have to say about this in the picture gallery. And what do you think, dear readers? Discuss with us!