ASRock Intel Arc A770 Phantom Gaming D 8GB OC (A770 PGD 8GO)

ASRock high-end graphics card with three air coolers, aggressive design and comprehensive RGB lighting. The model is part of the popular Phantom Gaming line, but it is experimental in nature. The fact is that all his life, the Taiwanese brand has collaborated exclusively with AMD and was responsible for the release of video cards with Radeon GPUs. However, this sample is based on the debut Arc GPU, with which Intel debuted on the video card market in 2022.

The GPU is based on the ACM-G10 GPU with 32 Xe-cores, which are assembled in groups of 4 Render Slice clusters, forming work units for video processing, machine learning, etc. Part of the auxiliary cores is responsible for Intel XeSS artificial scaling technology (note: an alternative to NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR), the other part is engaged in hardware ray tracing. In general, this is something between the architecture of Intel Alder Lake processors and NVIDIA Ampere graphics cards.

In the Arc line, the ASRock Intel Arc A770 Phantom Gaming D 8GB OC graphics card belongs to the upper price segment and is positioned as the best solution for playing at high graphics settings at 2K resolution. In large AAA projects like Cyberpunk 2077, COD: MW2, Elden Ring and Forza Horizon 5, it provides a performance level approximately equal to the NVIDIA RTX 3060. The available 8 GB of VRAM will be especially important when playing in 2K, as it allows faster loading of high-resolution textures. The declared power consumption of the model is the same 225 W as that of the Intel Arc 750 GPU, but in order not to limit the overclocking potential of the system, the manufacturer recommends installing it in a PC with a 700 W power supply instead of 650 W.