The focus of the week was testing Intel's first discrete graphics card from the Alchemist generation, the Arc A380. ComputerBase, together with two other German editors, imported the Gunnir Arc A380 Photon 6G and put it through its paces. All 3 magazines encountered numerous errors.
When all goes well, the Intel Arc A380 doesn't fare too badly. The performance is slightly below that of the Radeon RX 6400 and GeForce GTX 1650, especially since the energy efficiency is not very impressive, but the Arc A380 could actually work as a low-end product. But numerous bugs in the driver ensure that players will currently have little fun with an Arc A380. Crashes, graphics errors, bad frame pacing, a broken fan control and other problem areas were noticed in the test, so there is still a lot of work for Intel's driver team.
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Even more Intel Arc A380 next week
The Intel Arc A380 topic is still far from over on ComputerBase. In the course of the next week there will be another article dedicated to AMD Ryzen with the Intel graphics card and there will be a decent surprise in this regard. In addition, the topic of overclocking will also be covered and the Fan Stop of Gunnir's custom design will also have an appearance.
With this reading material in your luggage, the editors wish you a relaxing time Sunday!