Intel Arc A770 Is Finally Coming Out for Real This Time; Nvidia DLSS Competitor, Intel XeSS Super Scaling Tech Launched

User have been patiently waiting for the Intel Arc A770 to be announced, and Intel has finally delivered. The Arc graphics card will be available from October 12, 2022 and it has been priced at $329. The new graphics card comes with super scaling technology which will help turn a low resolution game into a higher one. This new graphical upscaling technology is the Intel XeSS. This is most certainly Intel’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS technology.

Intel Arc A770 Specifications

GPU

• The microarchitecture on the Arc A770 will be Xe HPG and TSMC N6 will be the Lithography type. In terms of GPU specifications, the device will have 32 Xe cores, 8 Render Slices and 32 Ray Tracing Units. Additionally, the device will 512 Intel XMX Engines and Xe Vector Engines. The Graphics Clock speed is 2100 Mhz and the TBP is 225W.

Memory

• The memory size of the Intel Arc A770 will be 16GB and the memory type is GDDR6. It will sport a 256 bit Graphics Memory Interface, a Graphics Memory Bandwidth of 560 GB/s and Graphics Memory Speed of 17.5 Gbps.

Technologies

• The new graphics card will have Ray Tracing and Variable Rate Shading. It will have DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan 1.3, Open GL 4.6 and Open CL 3.0. The graphics card will incorporate 2 multi-format codec engines and will have Adaptive Sync.

I/O

• The graphics card will be able to support 4 displays at a time with a graphics output of eDP* 1.4, DP 2.0 up to UHBR 10**, HDMI* 2.1, HDMI* 2.0b. The max resolution that can be achieved through HDMI will be 4096 x 2160@60Hz and max resolution through DP would be 7680 x 4320@60Hz.

Features

• The new Intel Arc A770 will feature H.264 Hardware encode/decode and H.265 (HEVC) Hardware encode/decode. It will also have AV1 encode/decode along with VP9 bitstream and decoding. The graphics card will also feature Intel Deep Link Technologies such as Intel Deep Link Hyper Compute, Intel Deep Link Hypes Encode and Intel Deep Link Stream Assist.