Intel Readies to Ship Arc A700 GPUs to Scavenger Hunt Winners

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Although Intel did not ship its Arc Alchemist A700-series gaming-oriented discrete graphics cards for desktop computers this summer, it is about to send them - at least, to winners of its Scavenger Hunt promotion that ran early in 2021. It might signify that the company is ready to ship these boards to general audiences.

Our colleague Evan Stenger tweeted late Friday that Intel is about to ship its Arc graphics cards to winners of its Scavenger Hunt who participated in the competition in early 2021. The screenshot he posted asks about the addresses of the winners, which means that Intel is ready to send out the prizes. We could speculate that this might be the Arc A770 Limited Edition built-by-Intel boards, but we will have to learn from the lucky winners what exactly they got.

Intel planned to start shipping its Arc Alchemist graphics cards for demanding gamers in the summer. Unfortunately, the company has failed to deliver on this promise. Yet, assuming that Intel is shipping its cards to gamers who were enthusiastic enough to do the Scavenger Hunt competition, this might be a sign that the company is indeed getting ready to ship its Arc boards commercially. While we do not know exactly what Intel intends to send to the winners, let us remind you what Intel has at its hands.

The Arc A770 is the company’s top-of-the-range model based on the ACM-G10 graphics processor with 32 Xe cores (equivalent to 4,096 stream processors) operating at 2,100 MHz and equipped with 8GB or 16GB of GDDR6 memory featuring a peak bandwidth of 560 GBps. Meanwhile, the Arc A750 sits below the flagship and features a cut-down ACM-G10 GPU with 28 Xe cores (equivalent to 3,584 shading units) working at 2,050 MHz and connected to 8GB of GDDR6 memory with a peak bandwidth of 512 GBps. We will see whether either ends up in our list of the best graphics cards available today.

Now, while we know that Intel ships some of its graphics boards to the lucky winners of its Scavenger Hunt, we still have no idea when these (and other) boards will be available and how much they will cost, therefore, stay tuned.

Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • LolaGT
    Wow, just wow.

    I'm not sure anything has ever been handled worse outside of true vaporware.
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  • zipspyder
    "Soon"
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  • watzupken
    It's ironic. The winners don't get their GPUs, while the CEO who's not bothered about it got it first. While I feel the ARC GPUs may be decent products, however what excitement is was meant to deliver has been buried by Ada Lovelace's announcement. This one goes straight to the bargain bin section.
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  • thisisaname
    watzupken said:
    It's ironic. The winners don't get their GPUs, while the CEO who's not bothered about it got it first. While I feel the ARC GPUs may be decent products, however what excitement is was meant to deliver has been buried by Ada Lovelace's announcement. This one goes straight to the bargain bin section.
    Then people saw the price of Nvidia's new Ada Lovelace' cards and said at that price you can keep them. Will be interesting to see how well they sell.
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