Intel claims its graphics cards do ray tracing better than the GeForce RTX

In a conversation with PCGamer, Intel graphics marketing director Ryan Shrout and his colleague Tom Petersen said that the Arc A770 and A750 graphics cards outperform the current generation of GeForce RTX graphics cards in terms of ray tracing performance.
LinusTechTipsNaturally, we're talking about comparisons with products of the same class here.
Earlier, Intel said that it considers its future graphics cards Arc A770 and A750 as a competitor to the GeForce RTX 3060, if we talk about the performance in games with DirectX 12.
Now Intel has decided to focus on the fact that its hardware ray tracing block is more efficient.
\"The ray tracing block we have implemented is very good in real-world tasks,\" Petersen said.
- When you compare the tracing speeds of the RTX 3060 and the A750 or A770, you should see very good results from us.
We are definitely competitive or even better than Nvidia with our ray tracing solution.
\"In other words, Intel representatives claim that the performance of the ray tracing blocks in the first generation Arc graphics cards was even better than the similar hardware solution from Nvidia in the second generation.
According to available data, this is due to a special implementation in the Arc Alchemist architecture BVH cache inside GPU.
Also according to Petersen, the advantage of Intel's approach to hardware ray tracing is that game developers require minimal effort to make it work.
Intel acknowledges that it does not play a leading role in the graphics market, so it cannot dictate the standards.
Therefore, the company has chosen a different approach - everything is done so that game developers have as easy as possible with the optimization: it should not require the involvement of high-level technical experts.Unfortunately, Intel representatives were not able to give a definite answer to the question when the graphics cards Arc A770 and A750 will appear on the market.
It is assumed that the announcement could take place on September 27, when Intel plans to hold the next Intel Innovation event.