Intel Arc A750 GPU gets another price cut, which is amazing news for gamers
1080p gaming on a budget
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Intel’s budget-friendly Arc A750 graphics card is now budget-friendlier than ever, available for just $229.99 at Newegg.com. The card in question –an ASRock Challenger variant– packs 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM and a twin-fan configuration. If you’re looking to get thebest graphics cardfor your cash, this could be the perfect choice right now.
This is actually the second time we’ve seen a price drop on Intel’s lower-spec Arc A7 GPU; we already sawIntel cut the MSRP from $289 to $249back in February, making it one of thebest cheap graphics cardsavailable right now. This further price cut on ASRock’s model further cements the A750 as a phenomenal choice for anyone looking to game at 1080p resolution.
Considering that the Intel Arc A750 is almost identical in performance toNvidia’s last-genRTX 3060– a solid 1080p GPU in its own right – it’s hard to recommend anything else right now. For comparison, the cheapest RTX 3060 card we could find on Newegg was aZotac Gaming model, discounted to $309.99. Average pricing on the 3060 sit around $320-330 at present, making it as much as a hundred dollars more expensive than the A750 for virtually no performance improvement (though Nvidia’s card does admittedly perform better in some ray-traced workloads).
The perfect time for a 1080p graphics card
This is frankly a staggeringly good deal, especially since Intel has put in months of work tosquash the bugs and performance issuesthat plagued the Arc lineup after its initial release. The Arc A750 is now a great card for 1080p gaming (and even 1440p, if you’re willing to dial back your settings a bit) – and that’s something the PC gaming community badly needs right now.
We’ve already spent plenty of time ranting about howGPU prices are ruining PC gaming, so it’s gratifying to see that Intel is serious about good-value cards in the face ofNvidia’s market dominance. Judging bySteam’s user hardware data, the RTX 3060 is one of the most-used GPUs among PC gamers; indeed, the rest of the cards foundat the top of Steam’s chartsare older 1080p cards like the RTX 2060 and GTX 1650.
We have high hopes for Intel’s next generation of Arc cards now that Team Blue has had some time to work out the kinks. With the majority of PC gamers still playing at FHD resolution (4Kwill take off eventually, probably) and many of them doing so on outdated hardware, cards like the A750 and its successors will be instrumental in keeping the gamers gaming – even ifwe do have to wait until 2024for new Arc cards.
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Christian is TechRadar’s UK-based Computing Editor. He came to us from Maximum PC magazine, where he fell in love with computer hardware and building PCs. He was a regular fixture amongst our freelance review team before making the jump to TechRadar, and can usually be found drooling over the latest high-end graphics card or gaming laptop before looking at his bank account balance and crying.
Christian is a keen campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights and the owner of a charming rescue dog named Lucy, having adopted her after he beat cancer in 2021. She keeps him fit and healthy through a combination of face-licking and long walks, and only occasionally barks at him to demand treats when he’s trying to work from home.
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