Intel releases Arc A380 video card in China for the equivalent of 146 euros

Intel has released its first desktop video card in China. The Arc A380 is an entry-level model and costs 146 euros. Intel claims the video card is 25 percent faster than the AMD Radeon RX 6400, which costs about the same.

Intel gives the A380 video card a clock speed of 2000MHz and a tbp of 75W. The video card is equipped with 6GB of GDDR6 memory with a speed of 16Gbit/s. In combination with the 96-bit memory bus, this results in 192GB/s of memory bandwidth.

According to Intel, the video card can run games like Apex Legends, Fortnite and Dota 2 with medium settings in 1080p resolution at more than 60fps. The manufacturer also claims that the video card is 25 percent faster than the Radeon RX 6400. That is the cheapest Radeon video card, which has a suggested retail price of $ 159. Intel does not show a direct comparison and no independent test has yet been done to support this claim.

Gunnir Intel Arc A380

The Chinese manufacturer Gunnir has an overclocked Arc A380 video card announced with a tbp of 92W. This variant has a GPU clock speed of 2450MHz and is equipped with two fans instead of one. The memory speed is slightly lower than the reference model at 15.5 Gbit/s.

Last month, Intel announced that the Arc video cards will be released in China first, starting with the cheapest A3 models. After that, Intel wants to serve the international market, but when is not yet clear. Later in the summer, higher-end A5 and A7 graphics cards will be available to system builders, with retail sales sometime after that. It is not yet clear when the Intel Arc video cards will be available in the Benelux.

* Arc graphics card specifications for desktops according to VideoCardz