Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition, 16GB GDDR6, HDMI, 3x DP

But does Intel deserve flack for this? Not really. It's pretty transparent that these cards need R-BAR to perform as advertised—the cards do end up competitive with the RTX 3060, so you're getting what Intel promised. You also need to cut Intel some slack for going from a company that made boring IGPs to a GPU that's as fast as the RTX 2080 "Turing," building nearly everything from scratch. While NVIDIA and AMD made the transition from AGP to PCIe, optimizing their memory architectures, Intel's GPUs were designed in a post-AGP, era where GPUs can have as much memory as they want. Optimizing for machines without R-BAR may be excused. So if you have R-BAR, enable it. If you don't have it, or can't have it for whatever reason (MBR boot drive, need CSM, etc.,), "just go get a 3060," as Intel puts it.

Still, given what the Arc A770 currently offers I feel like Intel needs to price the A770 around $300 to see mass adoption rates. Another obstacle could be availability. While Intel has a great channel network and their products can be found worldwide, I think that custom-design always add more interesting options to the lineup. At this time we haven't seen a big push from board partners, but that might happen in the near future. There's also rumors that Intel might cancel their GPU project, which makes little sense now that they have proven that they can release a solid product. The momentum is also on their side. Dear Pat, please give us more Intel GPUs, the investment will be worth it.