By the time these get released, they'll be outdated. According to Intel's official statement, Arc desktop graphics cards will not be available in the nearest future.

Arc A-Series products are made available exclusively to Chinese system integrators and OEMs. While expected for this quarter, a global rollout could be delayed until September at the earliest. Lisa Pearce, Intel's Visual Compute Group Vice President, verified the news in a short blog post. Arc's competitiveness may be at risk as a result of speculation that further software optimizations are to blame for the delay.

For Intel Arc, becoming the third big participant in a tremendously competitive field was never going to be easy; it appears like it will be a rough ride to retail.

In a brief blog post, Lisa Pearce, Intel’s Visual Compute Group VP, confirmed “Intel Arc A5 and A7 desktop cards will start worldwide with OEMs and system integrators later this summer, followed by component sales in worldwide channels.”

“This staggered approach gives us confidence at each step that we can effectively serve our customer base,” adds Pearce.

“During our evaluation of this feature, we decided to go a step further and implement a system to allow users to control collections of our driver-based optimizations, including memory management options, constant folding, and others. We will collect related toggles into groups to allow end-user customization,” says Pearce.

“This has required additional development time, but we believe this will be the best solution for our Intel Arc graphics customers, and we’ll circle back in the next few weeks on when we expect to post the first driver with this capability.”

Intel Arc desktop graphics cards from Intel are further delayed (could be September)