Intel’s Arc Alchemist graphics price is around $600-$700

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Intel launched an event called Xe HPG Scavenger Hunt on March 26 this year to promote the upcoming Xe HPG architecture GPU. With the Intel Arc Alchemist graphics card (DG2) approaching, Intel’s Xe HPG Scavenger Hunt event has entered the second phase.

In this event, Intel stated that both the Grand Prize (100 winners) and the first prize (200 winners) can get the Alchemist graphics card of the Arc brand, and the Xbox Game Pass subscription service, as well as some additional prizes. The total value is respectively $900 and $700. Among them, the grand prize is the “Arc Premium” graphics card and a six-month Xbox Game Pass subscription service, while the first prize is the “Arc Performance” graphics card and a three-month Xbox Game Pass subscription service.

According to estimates by TomsHardware, according to the value of these prizes provided by Intel, the “Arc Premium” graphics card is priced at around $825, and the “Arc Performance” graphics card is priced at around $650. However, Wccftech also has a different view, believing that “Arc Premium” and “Arc Performance” graphics cards are worth $700-750 and $600, respectively.

There will be three Arc aXXX graphics cards unveiled on the desktop platform in the first quarter of next year. The first is the flagship product Xe-HPG 512EU against Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, the second is the mid-range product Xe-HPG 384EU, which uses the simplified core of the flagship GPU; the last is the entry-level Xe-HPG 128EU. The new GPU will be based on the new Xe Core, manufactured with TSMC’s N6 process, support hardware-based ray tracing and artificial intelligence-driven super sampling (XeSS), and provide full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate.

Comparing the products of Nvidia and AMD, the estimated price of Intel’s new graphics card seems to be a bit high this time, perhaps not so accurate. Since Intel did not disclose the specific pricing, the actual situation will not be clear until the Alchemist graphics card is released. At CES 2022 early next year, Intel should reveal more information, while its partners will show a series of Alchemist graphics cards.

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