![]() ![]() At the time we first wrote that piece, we were anticipating a late 2021 or early 2022 launch. ![]() We've provided extensive coverage on Intel's Arc Alchemist architecture, dating back to about one year ago. ![]() How does the Arc A380 stack up to competing AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and what's all the hype about AV1 hardware encoding acceleration? You can see where it lands in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy, which if you want a spoiler is… not good. (And no, I don't really count the Intel DG1 from last year, since it only worked on specific motherboards.) Still, the A380's not all bad, and we're happy to see Team Blue rejoin the dedicated GPU market for the first time in over 24 years. The single offering on Newegg sold out and is currently back ordered, but that's likely more to do with limited supplies than high demand. Several months later, after plenty of negative publicity courtesy of GPUs that made their way to other shores, and with numerous driver updates come and gone, Arc A380 has officially launched in the US with a starting price of $139. Rather than taking sufficient time to fix the drivers before the retail launch, and with the clock ticking as new AMD and Nvidia GPUs are on the horizon, Intel decided to ship its Arc GPUs first in China - likely not the sort of approach a company would take if the product were worthy of making our list of the best graphics cards. By all indications, Intel knew the drivers were broken when the hardware was ready for release earlier this year. The Intel Arc A380 has to be one of the worst graphics card launches in history - not the hardware itself, necessarily, but the retail launch of the hardware. ![]()
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