Add in a cooling solution for a 200watt product and you add another 20 atleast.
Add in PCB and power circuitry and your adding in another 30-40 dollars.
Add in memory which is another 50-70 dollars.
Add in logistics(shipping), packaging and you are probably at 220. The rest goes to the partner leaving no profit for Intel or a loss. And these losses can be tremendous when you mix in R and D.
Respected analyst Jon Peddie thinks it's time for Intel to pull the plug on Arc to stop the bleeding.
www.extremetech.com
Intels loses for ARC were already 3.5 billion in 2022. ARC 580 is going to do nothing towards this.
The response from people just shows the entitledness of gamers. ARC may be cheap for a 12gb card with such a large die, but it has no future at this price point particularly when you consider Intel's financials. Without data center and with the increasing cost of wafers, the discrete market just doesn't have the legs of the CPU market. The dies are too big along with other added costs to create a videocard.