Intel has announced that it will discontinue the production of its ARC A770 Limited Edition graphics cards and more specifically, the 16GB model. As of 20 June, the card officially joined the annals of GPU history, making it one of the shortest-lived reference cards to be announced and now struck off the chipmaker’s list.
As PC Gamer points out, the main thing to note here is that this “End of life” notice pertains only to Intel-made Arc A770 16GB cards (Intel doesn’t make any 8GB versions itself). For those of you still vying to get your hands on an A770, fret not. The discontinuation is only applicable to the Limited Edition model, and Intel’s AIB partners’ cards will remain unaffected by the move. Partners card makers include Acer and the Chinese GPU manufacturer, GUNNIR.
The ARC A770 Limited Edition was launched on 12 October last year, the same as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 flagship. Specs-wise, the A770 will feature the full-fat ACM-G10 GPU, which comes with 32 Xe-Cores, 32 ray-tracing units, and 512 XMX Enginers. Additionally, the card will be available in both 8GB and 16GB GDDR6 graphics memory, although it should be pointed out that the Limited Edition model is only available in the 16GB configuration.
Oddly enough, the 16GB ARC A770 was limited to the Limited Edition, and technically speaking, Intel’s AIB partners are left with the 8GB variant of the card. On another note, Its decision to bring its Limited Edition flagship to end-of-line may be the chipmaker taking pre-emptive measures and preparations for the launch of its next-generationg ARC GPU architecture, codenamed Battlemage, which is expected to be next year.
Of course, that last part is merely speculation and should be taken with a grain of salt for now.
(Source: PC Gamer, Videocardz)
