Surprise surprise, acer enters the graphics card market via intel and his new one Arc A770 GPU which will be launched on October 12th. With this, the famous brand presents its first card in its range predator with the Acer Arc A770 Predator BiFrost. On the other hand, we don’t know yet if the company will make its cards available in the DIY market or if they will only be installed in pre-built Predator PCs. Likewise, it is not known if the brand will only produce Intel GPUs or if we will also see Acer cards with NVIDIA or AMD GPUs later.
With the Intel Arc, Acer launches its first dedicated graphics card
Visually, the company appears to have designed its own cooling system. Here we have a mix of a turbine fan in the center of the fairing and a larger RGB fan at the end.
From what we see in the only photo we have, the cooling system will also use four heat pipes. However, we don’t know if Acer will offer its card in 16 and 8 GB versions.
However, we can remember the configuration of the A770: this GPU uses the ACM-G10 graphics chip with 32 Xe cores, which corresponds to 4,096 stream processors with a frequency of 2.10 GHz. These are accompanied by 512 XMX units and have access to up to 16GB of GDDR6 memory at speeds of 17.5Gbps. With a 256-bit bus, we have a bandwidth of 560 GB/s. The advertised TDP is 225W, but be careful, for Intel this TDP represents an average consumption. Note the two 8-pin PCIe connectors on the edge to also enable overclocking.
In terms of performance, the brand announces that it competes with the NVIDIA RTX 3060 with ray tracing. More than ten days before you see what concrete to stick. Meanwhile, the MSRP price of the A770 $329 for the 8GB version and $349 for the 16GB version.
Who would see that Acer Arc A770 Predator BiFrost in his PC?