Rumors of Intel’s Arc A780 GPU Seem Squashed Despite Leaker’s Inside Info

If Intel’s long-in-the-pipe lineup of discrete GPUs had been like childhood fantasies of Santa, then essentially the most clever amongst us would ascribe to the axiom that “seeing is believing.” As far because the rumored Arc A780 graphics card is involved, it’s just about confirmed no person’s going to be getting one of their stocking this Christmas.

Ever since Intel introduced the corporate’s first sequence of discrete fashionable graphics playing cards meant for gaming and different comparable workloads, together with the top-of-the-line Arc A770, folks have speculated on one other card, an A780, that may be competitors for the Nvidia RTX 3070 in the high-ish-end gaming market. The A770 is meant to be someplace in between the RTX 3060 and 3070 in general energy, which meant there was room for one thing with a bit of extra juice.

As reported by Tom’s Hardware and Videocardz, tech leakers just like the prolific Moore’s Law is Dead have talked up the thought of a extra highly effective Arc card. Those rumors have now come to such a head that Intel’s personal director of graphics advertising and marketing, Ryan Shrout, posted Sunday that, no, there isn’t a A780, now shuddup about it!

He was backed up by one other Intel marketer for the Arc venture, Tuan Huynh, saying “there never was an A780 and no mentions of it in the year and a half I’ve been on the Arc team.”

That there appears to be a gap within the Arc lineup has solely helped drive the theories, nevertheless.

Moore’s Law is Dead confirmed up within the replies to Shrout’s tweet to defend himself and his data, basically accusing Intel of making an attempt to subject “damage control” over it not with the ability to push an RTX 3070-scaled card to market.

“It’s either that, or pretend the same source as the Raptor Lake, Redwood Cove, and Alchemist cooler leaks guessed all of that stuff… SPOILER ALERT: I didn’t.”

Moore’s Law’s YouTube channel had beforehand launched a video on July 14 describing data he pieced collectively from a number of inner sources in regards to the Arc lineup positioned for this summer time. He talked about that the supposed 3070 and 3070 Ti competitor was speculated to clock in at 2.3GHz or increased and have 16GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 VRAM. He even confirmed supposed paperwork that included SKUs of the supposed card. The leaker even said within the video that the A780 card would possibly by no means truly see the sunshine of day, however the Intel entrepreneurs’ rivalry that it was by no means even thought-about has solely helped gasoline extra disagreement.

Well, no less than there appears to be some consensus that the A780 is useless as a doornail, whether or not anybody truly breathed life into it or not.

Of course, all of this is perhaps moot when the Nvidia inevitably releases its RTX 40-series of playing cards, which—in case you consider the leakers—would develop into the corporate’s quickest and probably hottest GPUs in its arsenal.