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the only one more excited for this day to come than me has got to be Intel they

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have been hard at work on their Arc series dedicated gpus since at least

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2017 when they hired Raja kaduri from

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AMD who was leading up their Radeon graphics Division and it's finally

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freaking here this is their Alchemist

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code name first generation Arc Flagship

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the a770 and

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it comes with important safety and regulatory information

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Nate let's play indeed it's a cute case

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badge holy crap this is it

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You Gotta Give Them full credit it looks

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flipping sick hold on this plugs into a

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USB header and this is going to handle the RGB Lighting on your graphics card

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that's right a reference card with RGB

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is this international power plugs

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is this seriously a stand for the card is that what it is is it a stick

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oh oh I see why does it come with two bases wait shut up that's their solution

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to be able to wall mount it

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or wall mount it this way

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is to have two completely separate bases

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with the power switch in a different spot

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yeah I couldn't engineer a better solution but you know what fine oh fatal

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flaw we got the top down camera and I have no way of showing it to the top

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wait

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a solution now the performance embargo hasn't

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lifted yet but we can talk about all the detailed specs and Intel has released

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enough performance information about this GPU that we can make some pretty

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educated guesses first the basics though the arc lineup is divided up into three

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five and seven series products just like you would see on their desktop CPUs so

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this being an a770 makes it the top

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performer of their top series it uses their dg2 512 processor clocked at 2.1

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gigahertz that means it has 32 of their XE cores and 32 Ray tracing units it's

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equipped with 8 or 16 gigabytes of video

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memory that's what makes this the limited edition it has 16 gigs of memory

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and that's connected via a 256-bit bus

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and it's rated to draw 225 watts of

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power which is our first red flag

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because Intel says that this card is

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designed to compete against NVIDIA's RTX 3060 and AMD's Radeon that's

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6650xt both of which draw in the

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neighborhood of 160 to 170 Watts also

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neither of which use a 256-bit memory

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bus that means that especially once we dig in a little deeper and find the

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transistor count of this card that Intel was hoping for better performance out of

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this GPU more along the lines of a 3070

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or a 6700 glass card making matters more

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complicated for Intel NVIDIA has already announced their RTX 40 series of cards

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however NVIDIA's pricing is so far out

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to lunch that if at the price Intel has announced which is 330 dollars for this

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card they do manage to be competitive with a 30 60 30 60 TI and if the

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overclocking Headroom is anywhere near what they've talked about

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Ark could actually end up being pretty competitive I guess we should take a

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closer look at the card man did they ever nail the Aesthetics you've got a

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diffused RGB strip down here diffused RGB lighting around both of the

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fans meant in real life once it's lit it

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looks amazing oh do you have a test bench for me right there Bell Events has

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got a test bench for me hey thank you so welcome all right let's just uh yeah what could

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go wrong uh that could go wrong one thing to note is that probably because

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it was intended to come out a lot sooner the art series does not use any of the

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new funky PCIe power connectors it just has a standard eight pin plus six pin oh

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and that USB is right here is that what

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that USB connector is for I don't remember them telling me that it

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was for RGB but like you're connected via PCIe can you just do it that way

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can't wait to show this to you guys oh after this message from our sponsor

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okay there we go does that look awesome

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or what of course there's more to a GPU

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than just looks starting with is it even gonna fit in your case so we grabbed a

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couple of objects that we can compare our a772 starting of course with our

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classic ShortCircuit banana for scale and a little something like that

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lttstore.com but also some more useful things

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for context here is a 3080 TI this is

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the top tier Flagship level card it's pretty big isn't almost as big as a

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3080 TI um here's a 36 DTI this is more along

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the lines of the kind of Founders Edition card that you might be competing

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with in terms of performance it's a little on the long boy side here's our

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6700 XT which is actually okay higher

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tier card than this one's about the same size which again would give you some

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idea of what Intel was actually targeting and you can see this in some of the other specs as well when we

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compared the raw pixel rate and texture rate memory bandwidth with something

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like a 3060 TI the a770 kinda craps all

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over it but because Intel is kind of new

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to the driver game when it comes to high performance dedicated gpus

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it's speculated that aside from any

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architectural oversights there might have been on a first-gen product they

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have a lot to learn especially when it comes to optimizing for older especially

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DirectX 9 and earlier titles and you

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can't not support them because that's part of the beauty of PC gaming is that

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you've got this incredible back catalog

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of games that you can go back and play even on Modern Hardware that sometimes

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does little bit of hackery in spite of all the delays one reassuringly modern

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thing about this card is its feature set Intel is claiming that right out of the

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gate they're going to have Ray tracing performance that is up to 65 percent

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stronger Peak compared to their Rivals the up to Peak that's a lot of

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qualifications but hey at least they're going to support Ray tracing right out of the gate and they're going to have

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support for XE super sampling xcss which is a competitor to NVIDIA's deep

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learning super sampling and AMD's Fidelity effects super resolution using

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AI to boost frame rates at higher resolutions how well it works though it

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remains to be seen and based on how much work NVIDIA and AMD have already put

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into this technology I would say Intel is going to be playing catch-up where

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they won't be playing catch-up is in their display interfaces on the back

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here we're going to find HDMI 2.1 so you'll be able to do up to 4K

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120 hertz or 8K 60 I believe you can do

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on HDMI 2.1 and this is where things get really cool this is our first Hands-On

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with DisplayPort 2.0 however

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unlike previous version of DisplayPort DP 2.0 is not just a cut and dried

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here's what you get it's divided up into ultra high bitrate uhbr 10 13.5 I think

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and 20. and what those numbers mean is

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the data rate times four so these are DP

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2.0 uhbr 10 for a total of 40 gigabit

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per second ports okay it's a little

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confusing kind of which it was just uhbr40 so that that would be a little

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more intuitive for normies but in a world where USB naming conventions exist

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I guess this is a win another win and another modern feature

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is Intel support for av1 encoding and not on this GPU but we have actually

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played around with it a fair bit in the last week on Intel arc on the A380 and

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it's pretty freaking cool at 3 500

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kilobit per second our encoded game streaming footage looks about the same

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as NVIDIA's nvank at 6 000 kilobit per

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second so what this means is that once platforms like twitch support it you can

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expect to be able to stream at the same quality that people can today on a much

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lesser internet connection or you can expect to see better quality twitch

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streams pretty cool for all my positivity though and as much as I would

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love for there to be a valid third competitor in the dedicated graphics

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card space I do have to temper my enthusiasm a

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little bit because Intel is up against a lot of obstacles they've got to figure

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out that backwards compatibility game performance they've got to compete with

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AMD and NVIDIA both releasing new series

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of gpus when Arc Alchemist was really supposed to be competing with the last

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series of gpus and another big one is

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that we talk about second-hand gpus a lot and given the recent crypto crash

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there's a lot of them out there at very aggressive pricing and the reality of it

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is that Intel doesn't have any used gpus

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and they certainly don't benefit from selling them so it's going to be an

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extremely competitive market they seem pretty confident in their 329 pricing

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and I certainly wish them luck but hey

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if that doesn't work out for them then it can only be a win for gamers because

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they've made them so now they definitely have to sell them just like I'm gonna

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sell you uh that you should go subscribe

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to LTT while you're subscribing to ShortCircuit so you don't miss our full

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review view of this and other Arc

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Alchemist cards