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Beautiful design and excellent build quality

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024

The A770 TITAN OC Edition boasts a beautiful design and excellent build quality. Its triple-fan cooling system ensures efficient thermal performance, making it an attractive addition to any gaming rig.

Performance:
For 1080p gaming, the A770 holds its ground. It's a decent performer across a broad range of titles, both older and newer.

Where the A770 truly shines is at 1440p. If you're pushing higher resolutions or playing VRAM-intensive titles with high to ultra settings, this GPU delivers great results. Whether you're gaming with or without ray-tracing, the A770 TITAN OC Edition holds its own.

Pros:
- Beautiful Design: The A770 features an eye-catching design.
- Premium Build Quality: Sturdy construction with excellent thermal management.
- Generous VRAM: 16GB of VRAM for future-proofing.
- Solid 1080p and 1440p Performance: Ideal for most gamers.
- 256 bit memory bus
- 3x DisplayPort 2.0
- 1x HDMI 2.0b
Cons:
- Performance and Driver Issues:
While Intel's drivers have dramatically improved (I cannot stress this enough DRAMATICALLY since launch), there's still room for stability enhancements.
- Competition from Other GPUs: The GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600 provide stiff if lackluster competition.

Final Thoughts

The SPARKLE Intel Arc A770 TITAN OC Edition is a compelling choice for gamers seeking a mainstream GPU with ample VRAM. I bought this expecting for it to struggle with the games I play, but surprisingly that has not been my experience. I'm glad to report that I've had ZERO issues. I do have it paired with an Intel i7 12700k CPU which takes advantage of Intels' Deep Link technology which boosts the performance of this GPU.
In summary, the A770 TITAN OC Edition offers great value, especially for those aiming at 1440p gaming.
This is a sturdy and robust piece of hardware. Its performance is truly remarkable. I recommend grabbing one while they’re still available!

I am very happy with this purchase!
Happy gaming!

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scifidude79

Great Card

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024

Style: A750 ORC OCVerified Purchase

I decided to try Intel graphics after watching some videos on the Arc cards. Prior to that, my experiences with Intel graphics weren't good, from the old chipsets built into Intel motherboards to the newer UHD graphics built into Intel processors. But, I still decided to give Arc a try and I'm glad I did.

I bought this card specifically for the overclocking. The sale page says it goes up to 2200 MHz, but according to the Intel Arc control panel, it mostly runs at 2400 MHz. This likely offers a boost over the Intel branded card, and they're the same price. Plus, I got mine for $30 off, making it an even better deal. The performance in games ranges from good to excellent, depending on the game. Some games like Cyberpunk 2077, RoboCop: Rogue City and Gotham Knights really love Intel Arc graphics and have settings specifically for these cards. A lot of other games just run great, but a few older games require some tweaks to make them run. I have to use dxvk-async for Arkham Knight and I have to set my Steam launch options with my VRAM amount for GTAIV, but those are minor things. Once I fixed those minor issues, both games run just fine. So, experiences can vary based on the game, but that's true of any graphics card. I find this to mostly just be a great card for gaming in general. Plus, Intel seems to release new drivers around the end of each month, which is a great schedule and the drivers keep making the cards better.

The only minor issue I have with this card is that the fans do spin up kind of loud when it's under full load, but the card doesn't overheat. The most I've been able to push it to is about 80c, and that was with Cyberpunk and Starfield running at high settings. But, 80c isn't bad at all. Sure, the fans were pretty loud at that point, but they were doing their job.

So, all said and done, I'm really pleased with this card and I recommend this to anyone looking for a good budget option, provided you don't mind doing some tweaking for some games.

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Nunya Bizness

I really really wanted to like and keep this gpu.

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024

Style: A770 TitanVerified Purchase

My older computer's graphics card broke and I needed it replaced. I wanted the most bang for my money and specs wise, this is it.

Pros:
This gpu has plenty of power and potential to unlock with better drivers. It has plenty of vram which makes it somewhat future proof. The gpu is not that loud when the fans are on full speed. It rarely does. The performance of the gpu is a mixed bag. When the gpu plays a game with a well optimized drivers, it runs it flawlessly. Super smooth and unbelievable to the eyes. One such title is Ratchet and Clank. I couldn't believe that it performed that well. I turned on ray tracing and all I can say is wow. I cannot praise Intel enough for their effort into their gpus and their drivers. Bravo is all I can say.

Cons:
The biggest con I experienced is that it wouldn't work on my computer. I have a 9th generation Intel and I couldn't get it to work. Now before you all come down on me, I know that a 10th gen is highly recommended by Intel. I researched and there have been people who were able to get the gpu to work on a 9th and even 8th gen cpu so long as resizable bar was enabled. RB was enabled on my motherboard. I could not get it to work. Maybe it just didn't like my cpu and motherboard combination. I did install the gpu on my 12th gen gaming machine and it worked great. My biggest gripe with the gpu is the micro stuttering I experience while playing many games. It isn't smooth at all especially if you experienced a high end Nvidia gpu with g-sync.

Conclusion:
I really wanted to keep this gpu. I really do. If it worked with my 9th gen computer, I would be willing to hang with Intel and wait as they smooth things out on their end. But I don't have a choice because my older pc needs a gpu and this just wouldn't work. That's just too bad. We so need to have a 3rd competitor in the gpu world to help control prices. But since it just wouldn't work on my device I couldn't keep it. I'm not willing to buy a new cpu, motherboard just so I can use this.

If your cpu and motherboard works with this gpu, go for it. Intel is really putting their heart and soul into ARC and any support they can get from consumers will just allow them to continue that. I really really hate to do this but this is going back since it doesn't work for my needs.

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Andy Rodriguez

Best Bang for The Buck!

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2024

Style: A770 TitanVerified Purchase

This is the Best Bang for the Buck Graphics Card on the Market. This card is only getting better with every driver upgrade. AMD and NVIDIA have had driver issues for as long as I can remember. Intel being a new comer to the dedicated graphics scene is making strides and taking the community feedback serious. I like the fact that this card isn't a 128 bit memory bus graphics card. With the Extra bandwidth that the 256bit memory bus has along with the 16GB of GDDR6 graphics memory this graphics card has a lot of performance still available. I believe this card will prove to be a great purchase even if you don't use it just for gaming. It really shines in video editing and 3D CAD which I have used it for mainly. Well worth the Price I paid. I would Highly Recommend!

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Mike S.

I'm very sad, I wanted this to work so bad! DOA, dumb design

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2024

Style: A310 ECOVerified Purchase

To start, this thing never outputted any video consistently. When it did, it was garbled. I've seen dead GPUs before and this certainly had all the symptoms of one.

I wanted this to work so bad. I'd love a single slot, low profile card to do Plex transcoding in a server. The only other card that can do that is an Nvidia Quadro P400.

Speaking of low profile...get a load of this. This card does include a low profile bracket! That's great! All you have to do is remove 3 screws and the full height bracket comes off...but there's an issue. The third screw is underneath the plastic heatsink shroud. I can't figure out how to remove the shroud without removing the entire heatsink assembly (which voids the warranty). I read the manual posted on the website but that only talks about system requirements, installing the card, and loading the drivers. The shroud appears to be glued or secured to the heatsink with hidden screws. So, if you wanna try to put this in a half height chassis, be prepared with some thermal compound or just cut away part of the plastic shroud covering the screw. I'm hoping a future revision of the card will change the shroud design or just cut the shroud short so this isn't even an issue. For the record, the card was broken before I started messing with the shroud. Tried this on several computers.

I'm sending mine back to Amazon for a refund. Maybe I'll give this a shot again when the product has had a chance to mature and go through a board revision or two.

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holmes

Good Try---but still hit or miss

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024

Style: A770 TitanVerified Purchase

There's a lot to like about the A770, most of all the price/performance. While there is no doubt intel has come a long way from the first release, there are still growing pains. My issue was the fans would spin full throttle every 30 secs including when idle.

Changing fan curve did no good, it just kept doing it. As my machine was relatively close to me, the constant hummm----hummm-----hummm, was too much. Leaving me to believe my unit was defective, perhaps the firmware was out of whack, so I had to return it.

Other than that. it worked well, and I am hopeful that intel and their partners will reduce the quality-of-life issues that still plague their GPUs. That being said, there are many people who have had positive experiences, so as noted, this may be a matter of growing pains, or just my bad luck.

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Jeff

A good quality budget GPU

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024

Style: A770 TitanVerified Purchase

Handles 1080p gaming really well. 1440p is good as well. Quick processing for stable diffusion images as well

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Science4Life

Very quiet fan design

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024

Style: A770 TitanVerified Purchase

Not using this for gaming, more for AV1 encoding and dual TV tuner DVR usage. Under 90% load even at max fan speed, this Intel Arc 770 is fairly quiet in comparison to using a gaming RTX GPU or former Quadro.
As far as performance goes, if you're a content creator of doing animation or stop motion frame fill rendering this GPU performs similar to an RTX 3070 on recent drivers but power usage is a bit higher. Handles well in a dual GPU setup if you have a power supply to support that amount of overhead. If you plan to use this exclusively for AV1 or TV DVR tasks or as a render GPU without a display, get a dummy DP or HDMI adapter.
Overall an amazing value for a 16 GB dedicated GPU may it be for gaming, media center and more. Keep in mind older games have DirectX support issues, Intel seems to have fixed DX11 but older games your mileage will vary as improvements on drivers are still going on. For modern games, this is a great option.

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GamerZ

Its all about the drivers and right game settings (Update 2/26/2024)

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023

Style: A770 TitanVerified Purchase

I've been using this GPU for about a week now so this is more of a first impressions review. If my experience with it gets better (or worse) over time I will come back and update it.

So far since upgrading to the A770 from a GTX 1650 Super I have crashed twice in Fortnite. I never had a crash in this game with my other GPU so I can only assume this is a driver problem. I've also had 1 blue screen PC crash since installing this GPU and I'm hoping that doesn't happen again. Finding the proper graphic settings seems like a job because after trying different settings in game I can't seem to find that sweet spot that gives me good FPS without my game looking like its running on a potato. I just settle with Medium graphic settings with a couple custom changes such as 3D resolution and view distance and I am able to get around 100-120 FPS. Even still, I get random stutters here and there so I don't know if its entirely on the GPU or if its my PC overall contributing to this. My PC is:

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.60 GHz
Windows 10 Home
32GB XPG DDR4 Memory
Gigabyte B450M DS3H Mobo
1TB Samsung NVMe drive (most of my games are installed on this)
500GB Samsung Evo SSD

Yes my mobo BIOS is updated and REBAR is enabled. I have the latest drivers for this GPU as well. I know my system is a budget build, but I expected the overall performance and experience using this GPU to be a bit better than this. I do plan on using this GPU in an Intel based build in the future so hopefully by that time I will have a better experience with it. This GPU also seems to run more on the hotter side almost all the time. The color changes on the GPU lighting to indicate the current temperature range. If its blue then its cool but if it changes to orange then its getting hotter. This GPU has been in the orange color for me most of the time when I'm just doing something simple such as playing Fortnite. I'll try adding more cooling to my system to see if that helps but I didn't expect a game like Fortnite to make it run hot especially when not on the highest settings. I will say when I do set the graphics settings to high the game looks incredible, but the FPS goes way down. Again, maybe that is in part due to my budget build so if this improves in my next build I will update my review.

The graphics card itself looks amazing. It'll give your PC that high end look when you install it. On a side note, don't try to put this thing in a small PC case unless you're sure it can fit. I had to "modify" my PC case to get this thing to fit so make sure you have enough room for it. The only reason I chose this card over an NVIDIA is because it was the cheapest 16GB vram GPU I could find. I figured the extra vram would help keep it "future proof" for awhile so I wouldn't have to worry about upgrading the GPU anytime soon. I almost wish I would've just went with a 4060 RTX 8GB but I will hold out for now and see how things go. I'm hoping they continue to improve the drivers and do everything they can to ensure people who use this GPU are getting the best possible experience.

Other games I have played since installing this GPU:

World of Warcraft
New World
Overwatch
Forwarned
Fall Guys

My main game is Fortnite but in the few hours I've put into the games above with this A770 I would say overall its been a good experience with just having some stuttering here and there in Overwatch. I'll update this review in a few months, or when I try this GPU on a higher budget Intel based system.

Update: In the time between I made this review and until now (1/3/2024 just 3 days...) Fortnite has crashed about 5 more times at random. Again, I'm pretty sure this is a problem with the GPU because I did not have this problem before with a different GPU. I have also started seeing rapid flickering of textures and objects in game which now happens everyday. I don't feel like I am using a 16GB vram gpu with the amount of problems I have experienced in the very short amount of time I've had it. I don't think this particular gpu runs well on older (not old) hardware despite my mobo having REBAR support and everything as up to date as I can have it. I'm starting to already regret choosing this gpu over an 8GB nvidia one I could've gotten for around the same price. I can only hope it runs better on a newer system in the future, or a driver release somehow makes it perform better on my current system.

Update 2: More of my games are now crashing using this GPU, which defeats the whole purpose of "upgrading" a gpu. I did not have these crashes on my previous gpu so my guess is its a driver issue.

Update 3: I tried new settings in Fortnite from a guide I found online and after testing them for a few matches my FPS has gotten way better (staying at around 165 fps most of the time with it going between 110-165 depending on whats going on during the match) and the overall experience being much better than the past week I have used this card. The flickering seems to have stopped (for now) and I haven't experienced any random stutters or sudden fps drops like before. I'll continue to test the gpu with these new settings over the next few days and see if it maintains the performance I experienced tonight. I'll bring the Star rating back up to 3 and will consider moving it to 4 or perhaps even 5 if I can go a week straight with the same performance increase I had tonight with these new graphic settings. I'm also hoping the crashes have stopped (also note Fortnite is not the only game I have experienced a crash in, so I don't know if that is due to drivers or any specific graphic setting). Anyone who knows even a little about gpus and PC gaming in general knows that crashes can be hard to diagnose and fix. I know for me they only happened once I switched GPUs.

Update 4 (1/18/2024)
I decided to upgrade my previous 3 star rating to now 5 stars. All of the previous problems mentioned in my review so far have went away. I have not crashed in Fortnite since having the new in game settings and the game looks and performs really well. It makes me excited for how well I can make my games look and perform when I upgrade the rest of my computer. I'm able to maintain a steady 125-165 FPS in Fortnite all the time now. All of my other games are doing great too on this GPU. Overwatch gives me a random stutter frame drop but I think that may be because I haven't yet found the right in game settings for what my computer can handle with the game. I will next be trying Resident Evil 2 Remake with ray tracing enabled to see how well the game looks and performs on this GPU and my current PC. I was able to make it look and play pretty good with my previous GTX 1650 Super so I think I can go a lot further with this new GPU especially since it has way more VRAM than my previous GPU (16GB compared to 4GB on my other gpu). Overall I think the A770 is a pretty solid GPU and worth the upgrade especially in budget builds looking to get that extra performance without spending a ton of money. Just make sure your computer is compatible with it and that you have a REBAR ready mobo. I think Intel will be a worthy competitor to AMD and Nvidia so long as they stay on top of driver updates and competitive pricing. I'll be interested to see when and if they make something comparable to a high end 4090.

Update 5 (1/28/2024)
I'm dropping my rating for this GPU back down to a 3 from a 5. Updating to the latest drivers for this GPU started making Dead by Daylight crash. I couldn't even complete a single match before the game would crash every time. Anyone who plays this game knows that crashing in that game is not good as you get a leaver penalty that stacks which prevents you from playing the game. Nothing makes me want to stop using a GPU and lose faith in the brand of it faster than game crashes. As of now, I will definitely be going back to Nvidia when I can afford one of their higher VRAM RTX models. I never had crashing problems in my games using even an older GTX 1650 Super. The A770 gives much better FPS, but what is the point of better FPS if your games crash? I also noticed certain places in Fortnite were flickering with the latest driver. Thankfully the game didn't start crashing again and the FPS is still good. I'll try reverting back to a previous driver and see if that helps. Game crashes are simply unacceptable especially for a GPU of this level.

Update 6 (2/26/2024)
I reverted the driver back to 31.0.101.5085 and tested it with my games for a few weeks. My game crashes have stopped (the most important thing) and overall the performance is pretty good for my budget PC. I have noticed some FPS stutters in random places in Dead by Daylight but other than that it has been a good experience. The right drivers mean everything. Updating to the latest driver isn't always the best thing to do, at least in my experience. I think for now I will wait awhile between driver updates and see how it goes but the driver I am using now seems to be what works best for my PC. This will probably be my last update to this review until I try the GPU out in a better PC and I'm not sure when that will be. For now I will bring the star rating back up to 4. I think the right settings in your games and the right driver is the key. I know for me the issues I had in Fortnite seemed to be fixed mostly by finding the right settings in game. However the game crashes didn't stop until I used the right driver. The difference was night and day in Fortnite when I found the right settings for my PC.

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Matthew

Nice Cheap Tiny Card...Unless You Need Low-Profile Bracket

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2024

Style: A310 ECOVerified Purchase

I'd thought about getting a second "super-cheap-but-modern" GPU to make up for my prebuilt's card's lack of AV1 encoding as well as finding some way to support Intel's venture into the GPU market to hopefully knock some sense into Nvidia (and AMD to a lesser extent), but I had the problem of having already filled almost all of my spare PCI-e brackets with additional USB ports, so I really, REALLY needed a single-slot height version.

Enter this adorable little card. Poor thing is so small that I can barely see it under my behemoth MSI 3070 Ti and its sag bracket. It slots in perfectly without blocking too much of my primary GPU's fans, driver installation went smoothly, and the first few encoding tests I've done are, I think, pretty respectable. Obviously can't compare AV1 times between GPUs since my primary doesn't have that, but this card's H.265 encoding time isn't too far behind NVENC (HandBrake had about a 5-second difference on a 1:47 1080p clip, and the final file size was a little less than half the NVENC result, using the "H.265 MKV 1080p30" preset with the only differences being using the NVENC or QSV encoder).

However, I have to dock 1 star because of a design flaw that may be a game-breaker for those seeking to use this in a low-profile bracket setup. The card does come with a low-profile bracket, but the problem is that one of the mounting screws is hidden under the shroud and is basically impossible to reach and unscrew unless you're willing to take a cutter to it and potentially void your warranty and/or destroy the card if you're really careless. It's really baffling, actually, because it's not even buried deep inside; it's right underneath the corner where they could have easily just left it exposed or made their own accessibility cutout for very little trouble or cost, but nope.

Bottom line, you may want to think twice about buying this for a case that requires low-profile brackets, but if not, and all you want is to cover the holes of functionality that a slightly older but overall better GPU misses, this is a pretty cheap and minimally invasive supplement option, and I'm hopeful it will provide the few things my primary GPU can't. Intel deserves our support in this endeavor, they're working hard and have already gone places even if they still have a ways to go.

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