> I don’t know anyone who would recommend Intel. I'd recommend them to some friends, and actually a colleague of mine got the A770 and is very happy with that

> I don’t know anyone who would recommend Intel. I'd recommend them to some friends, and actually a colleague of mine got the A770 and is very happy with that (besides the relatively high idle power consumption). In fact, if you want a lot of VRAM for relatively cheap, the A770 is your best choice, e.g., compare a list of GPUs with 16 GB or more video memory, sorted ascending by price here in Austria (includes German merchants): https://geizhals.at/?cat=gra16_512&xf=132_16384&sort=p#productlist https://geizhals.at/?cat=gra16_512&xf=132_16384&sort=p#produ... Cheapest is the Intel A770 -> 379 € (= 315.83 € without VAT) The cheapest after that is the RX 6800 -> 527€ (439.16 € w/o VAT) The cheapest that actually can also do AV1 encoding is the RX 7900 XT -> 846 € (705 € w/o VAT) Sure, the RX 6800 packs quite a bit of additional performance (but not all features the Intel Arc's got, like AV1 encoding), but 150€ more might make it unaffordable for quite a few people, and depending on what they do with the card the A770 can be enough for a lot of midrange games (or AAA on midrange resolution/details), video processing, rendering, ... tldr; while not a hard recommendation for all general cases, the Arc series def. has its use, especially on lower budget and especially for use cases that do well with lots of VRAM or AV1 encoding/decoding for a relative low price.