If Intel’s long line of discrete GPUs were like Santa’s childish fantasies, then the wisest among us would ascribe to the axiom that “seeing is believing”. As for the rumored Arc A780 graphics card, it is virtually confirmed that no one will have half of it this Christmas.
Since Intel announced the company’s first series of discrete modern graphics cards for gaming and other similar workloads, including the flagship Arc A770, people have speculated with another card, an A780, that would be competition for Nvidia. RTX 3070 in the high end gaming market. The A770 is supposed to be between the RTX 3060 and 3070 in overall power, which meant there was room for something with a little more juice.
As reported by Tom’s Hardware and Videocardz, technology leaks such as the prolific Moore’s Law is Dead have spoken of the idea of a more powerful Arc card. These rumors have reached such a point that Intel’s own director of graphic marketing, Ryan Shrout, posted on Sunday that, no, there is no A780, now shut up!
He was backed by another Intel salesman for the Arc project, Tuan Huynh, saying that “there was never an A780 and it wasn’t mentioned during the year and a half that I’ve been on the d ‘Arc’.
Despite some rumors to the contrary, there is no Intel Arc A780 and it was never planned that there would be an A780. Let’s resolve this debate. 🤣
– Ryan Shrout (@ryanshrout) July 16, 2022
However, the fact that there seems to be a hole in Arc’s formation has only helped propel theories.
Moore’s Law is Dead appeared in replies to Shrout’s tweet to defend himself and his information, essentially accusing Intel of trying to issue “damage control” for failing to push an RTX 3070-scale card into the market.
“Is that it, or pretends the same source as the Raptor Lake leaks, Redwood Cove and Alchemist guessed all these things … SPOILER ALERT: I didn’t.”
Moore’s Law’s YouTube channel had previously posted a video on July 14 describing information it gathered from various internal sources about Arc’s formation positioned for this summer. He mentioned that it was supposed that the supposed competitor 3070 and 3070 Ti should go at 2.3 GHz or more and have 16 GB of 18 Gbps of GDDR6 VRAM. He even showed alleged documents that included the SKUs of the alleged card. The filter even stated in the video that the A780 card may never see the light of day, but Intel’s vendors ’claim that it wasn’t even taken into account has only helped fuel more disagreements.
Well, at least there seems to be some consensus that the A780 is dead as a key to the door, whether someone has given it life or not.
Of course, all of this could be debatable when Nvidia inevitably releases its series of RTX 40 cards, which, if you believe the filters, would become the company’s fastest and probably hottest GPUs in its arsenal.
Editor’s Note: Release dates for this article are based in the US, but will be updated with local Australian dates as soon as we know more.