Acer’s first graphics card is here
A new player enters the game
Acer , one of the most well-known brands in the field of computers, among other things for its laptops and monitors, is now preparing to take its first step in a new product category. Going into details, the company officially announced its first graphics card , the A770 Predator BiFrost .
Yes, surprisingly Acer didn’t prefer NVIDIA and the RTX 4000, nor AMD with their upcoming RX 7000 models for their market debut. Instead, he decided to start in collaboration with Intel , which is also taking its first steps in the market of graphics cards for desktops.
So being an implementation of the Arc A770, the Predator BiFrost comes with a really special design that we haven’t seen before on a graphics card. In particular, it incorporates two completely different fans, a normal large-sized one on its right side and a blower-type fan in the center. Theoretically, this combination will be able to provide satisfactory results, since the blower fan will expel the hot air and the other will help the airflow.
In fact, the card looks very solid, having a distinctive metal casing. Of course, there is no lack of RGB details on both fans, while the Predator logo also lights up. Two 8-pin connections are necessary to power the card.
At the moment we don’t know more information, such as what it will be priced at, when it will hit the market, or whether it will be the 8GB or 16GB variant of the A770, but more is expected to be revealed soon.
In case you need a refresher, Intel’s Arc A770 is expected to hit the market on October 12th. This is a mid-range model, which will compete with the GeForce RTX 3060 and Radeon RX 6650 XT. The price of the card will be $329, which is the same as the suggested retail price of the RTX 3060.
As for the specs, it comes with the ACM-G10 GPU clocked at 2,100 MHz. In total it is equipped with 32 Xe-Cores (corresponding to 4096 stream processors). The card will come in 16GB and 8GB memory configurations, with a maximum speed of 17.5 Gbps and a theoretical bandwidth of 560 GB/s.
Intel claims that the Arc A770 offers 65% better peak performance in ray tracing applications than the competition, without specifying exactly which card was used for this comparison.
