Crucially, Intel claims that its A770, the highest-end product from the company's first wave of graphics cards, will compare to or even exceed the Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti, which debuted last year at $399 and continues to stick to that price point at most marketplaces.
While we have yet to personally test Intel's pair of 700-series GPUs, the tale of their tape points to comparable hardware, with 4,096 shading units (compared to the 3060 Ti's 4,864 CUDA cores), 16GB of GDDR6 RAM (compared to 3060 Ti's 8GB GDDR6), and a boost clock of 2.1 GHz (compared to 3060 Ti's 1.67 GHz).Before announcing the 770's price and release date, Gelsinger pointed to a chart of "performance segment GPU prices" that charted Nvidia's mid-range GPU launches since the GTX 650 Ti. "We are, with gamers, delivering and hearing the complaints of high prices," Gelsinger said as he pointed to the current costs of RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti models in the wild. "You should be frustrated, because you are missing out as the gaming community.