Intel's high-end gaming graphics cards coming to market in Q2022 900 will bring some much-needed competition to the GPU world, but just how competitive will they be? Well, we've just heard some interesting rumors about the potential price of incoming Team Blue video cards. As Tom's Hardware noted, Intel has a boiling Xe Arc Alchemist GPU giveaway where players can win various prizes, and Intel lists the total value of those prizes. Using a bit of simple math, it is possible to calculate approximate US dollar figures for the possible selling prices of Xe-HPG cards. The grand prize is €700, with the winner receiving a "premium" (badge) Intel Arc graphics card, and the first prize is around €100 and comes with an Intel Arc "performance" GPU. (There will be 200 and 60 winners respectively). Prizes also include six months of Xbox Game Pass for PC for top winners and three months for top winners, as well as Intel Arc-branded merchandise (of unspecified value). So with the flagship premium GPU, if we take away $840 for the Xbox Game Pass subscription, that leaves $50, minus what Intel merchandise might be worth, maybe $100 or $740? Giving us an estimated price of around €790 to €700 for the card. Similarly, for the performance Arc graphics card, we start at $30, take $570 off for the three months of Xbox Game Pass, and then that drops to around $620 to $800 once merchandise is counted. So the rough indication of the price is closer to €600 for the flagship, perhaps, and around €580 for the performance GPU (around €1,070, AU$440 and around €800, AU$512 respectively, but that's ok. Of course, the currency conversions in this case is pretty negligible). Theoretically, the flagship will be the previously announced graphics card with 384 UE (execution units), and the performance model could be the one below, supposedly with XNUMX UE, according to previous speculation (although Intel is about to rename the scheme with Arc cards, abandonment of UE in favor of Xe cores).
Analysis: Hope Intel's Competitive Pricing Will Fade?
It sounds a bit disappointing, as we were hoping that Intel could attack on the price front with its high-performance gaming GPUs. If those ballpark numbers turn out to be correct, given that the flagship Xe-HPG graphics card would be equivalent to the Nvidia RTX 3070 or so, don't be shy about the salt shaker here, of course, not good for parents. treat by comparison. Not at all, in fact, it seems to suggest that Intel's best GPU will be more expensive and would actually compete more with the RTX 3080 here. That said, we're talking about recommended prices, and real-world prices are quite different, as GPU stock shortages continue to plague gamers and are unlikely to drop for quite some time. The reality is that suggested prices will inflate significantly as this situation continues, as Intel can expect over the next year. In all likelihood, supply pressures will continue to exert their unwanted influence on the graphics card market in early 2022 when Intel launches Arc Alchemist GPUs. Competitive pricing and the intent to undercut Nvidia and AMD, then, as a surefire way to enter the two-horse race of the graphics card market, may not be a realistic proposition on this basis. Intel simply won't have to consider lowering prices to sell these products; they'll fly anyway, even with the estimated prices we're talking about here, especially if Team Blue doesn't produce a large number of GPUs due to supply. problems after launch... The best graphics card deals of the moment
