Briefly: Intel’s scavenger hunt competitors that provided Arc Alchemist desktop graphics playing cards as prizes (once they arrive) has completed, with the 200 winners now being notified. Curiously, this has given us an concept of what the GPUs will price once they land.
Intel launched its Xe HPG (the identify Arc was going by again then) Scavenger Hunt on March 26 to achieve extra publicity and curiosity for its Alchemist graphics playing cards. It started with a video posted on Twitter containing some hidden codes that pointed to an Intel web site and went from there.
The hunt has now completed. Rock Paper Shotgun studies that Intel despatched out affirmation messages to the 200 winners informing them of their prizes and the bundle’s approximate retail worth (ARV), which implies we are able to work out roughly how a lot Intel’s desktop playing cards will price at launch.
Twitter consumer La Frite David posted a screenshot of his message confirming a bundle with an ARV of $700. It comprises a “efficiency” Intel Arc graphics card, merchandise, and three months of Xbox Sport Go for PC. Taking off the $45 it prices for 3 months of Final-tier Sport Go leaves $655. Precisely how a lot the merchandise is price is unclear, however we are able to anticipate the ultimate worth of the cardboard to be someplace between $600 and $640.
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— La Frite David 🇫🇷 (@davideneco25320) April 28, 2022
One other winner, @Malcore, additionally posted a shot of their win. The cardboard on this case is listed as a “Premium” Arc GPU, and it ships with merchandise and 6 months of Sport Go for PC Final. The bundle ARV is $900, that means the cardboard will doubtless be round $750 to $800.
That is fairly a excessive determine for the Premium-tier Arc card. A fast look on Newegg reveals the most cost effective RTX 3080 is $869. That is not far off Intel’s product, and few anticipate the 2 to supply related ranges of efficiency—the Arc is more likely to be nearer to the RTX 3070 or 3070 Ti. There are additionally the upcoming Nvidia RTX 4000-series (Lovelace) and AMD RDNA 3 playing cards to contemplate. However GPU costs are falling, so the ultimate Arc pricing might be a shock; time will inform whether or not it is a good or dangerous one.
