The wait is over: After an immense delay, Intel's Alchemist gaming graphics cards, the Arc A770 and Arc A750, will be launched on October 12th. Your test with gaming and pro benchmarks compared to Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon shows: The time for Arc 1.0 is still not ripe, but it was over.
Table of Contents
Intel Arc A770 and Arc A750 at a glance
Intel's first time sample
Limited editions vs. custom designs
Technical key data at a glance
A question of expectations
GeForce RTX 3060, 3060 Ti or 3070?
The price has to do it
The API is decisive
Test results and benchmarks
GPU power and clock rates
Game benchmarks in WQHD (2560×1440)
Game benchmarks in FHD (1920×1080) with RT
Game benchmarks in FHD (1920×1080)< /li>
Game benchmarks in HD (1280 × 720)
Gaming benchmarks in DirectX 9 titles
Preliminary conclusion gaming performance
App benchmarks
Power consumption
< li>Power consumption under load and when idling
Performance losses with lower TDP
Driver anomalies and problems
Overclocking
Conclusion
Overview of the Intel Arc A770 and Arc A750
Arc A770 and Arc A750 are Intel's flagship first-generation Arc graphics cards based on the Alchemist chip architecture. Both are aimed at PC gamers and users of professional (New German: creative) software. Arc doesn't get any faster in the first generation, because with the larger of the two SKUs, the large Alchemist GPU ACM-G10 is fully utilized. But how fast is fast?
Intel's first time pattern
Arc A770 and Arc A750 are the first graphics cards in the Arc series, whose market launch Intel – after a lot of PR over the past few months – is supporting globally with test samples and drivers under NDA. This was not the case with the previously available solutions for notebooks and the small desktop graphics card Intel Arc A380 – quite the opposite.
The graphics cards were made available from Intel last Thursday. The required driver was available for download on Thursday evening. In order to be able to deliver a meaningful article in time for the fall of the embargo (between Ryzen 7000 and GeForce RTX 4090), one aspect has so far been left out of the following consideration: Intel XeSS.
Because even if (after Ryzen 7000) the computers were running for the third weekend in a row, there was no time for a well-founded analysis of the AI upscaler. A review of the performance gains taking image quality into account is planned for a later date. The first games to support XeSS include Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Death Stranding: Director's Cut. A total of 20 titles have been announced so far.
This article is about the Hardware as such and what it is capable of doing. Both graphics cards were available in the “Limited Edition”.
Limited Editions vs. Custom Designs
Intel's “Limited Edition” is the “Founders Edition” of the manufacturer. It is manufactured by Intel (in Malaysia) and marketed by Intel. Direct sales via the company's own shop are planned, but not yet ready for a decision.
The Arc A750 will only be available as a limited edition for the time being, board partners were obviously not interested in this class. The Arc A770 is again available as a limited edition with 16 GB (17.5 Gbps) and as a custom design with 8 GB (16.0 Gbps).
Model MSRP (before tax) Vendor Available from Arc A770 Limited Edition (16GB) $349 Intel October 12 Arc A770 (8GB) $329 Partners (Gunnir, ASRock , MSI …) ? Arc A750 Limited Edition (8GB) $289 Intel October 12
Both the Arc A770 Limited Edition and Arc A750 Limited Edition will be available in stores from October 12th. Intel sees this as certain for the USA, but the manufacturer could not confirm this for neighboring Canada last week. Intel could not or did not want to name an EIA for Germany before the embargo fell. It is also unclear when and where partners will be selling the Arc A770 with 8 GB.
Overview of key technical data
The table below gives an overview of the key technical data of the announced or proposed Intel Arc graphics cards for desktop PCs. Compared to the Arc A380 (test), both Arc A7xx offer more than three times as many shaders and a memory interface that is three times as wide. The increase in performance should therefore be considerable. There is still no date for the Arc A580, which corresponds to an Arc A730M (test) with a higher TDP.
Specifications of Intel Arc Graphics Cards for Desktop PCs A310 A380 A580 A750 Ltd. A770 A770 Ltd. Architecture Intel Xe HPG (“Alchemist”) GPU ACM-G11 ACM-G10 Process TSMC N6 Xe Cores 6 8 24 28 32 FP32 ALUs 768 1024 3072 3584 4096 Memory 4GB 64-bit 6GB 96 Bit 8GB 128 Bit 8GB 256 Bit 8GB 256 Bit 16GB 256-bit RGB lighting no yes Power consumption (graphics card) 75 watts 175 watts 225 watts Power consumption (GPU) 65 watts ? 190 watt RRP – – – USD 289 USD 329 USD 349
A question of expectation
There were rumors about the expected performance of the fastest Alchemist-based Arc graphics cards more than a year ago, while Intel officially kept a low profile. There was talk of the level of a GeForce RTX 3070, maybe even better. This year, the expectations fueled by rumors were scaled back – “between GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3070,” it said.
GeForce RTX 3060, 3060 Ti or 3070?
In July came Intel with its own benchmarks around the corner and promised that the Arc A750 would be able to clearly beat the GeForce RTX 3060 – in five selected DirectX 12 games. So should the Intel Arc A770 really be able to compete with even larger models?
Intel left that in the dark, but afterwards spoke offensively for the first time about the influence of the API, “Tier 1 games” with modern API and drivers adapted to it and in August only presented the comparison A750 to GeForce RTX 3060 in Vulkan and DirectX -12-Games.
Ultimately, it was only the final announcement of Arc A770 and Arc A750 that brought certainty: Both graphics cards “only” have the GeForce RTX 3060 as an opponent. GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and especially GeForce RTX 3070 are too fast even for the Arc A770.
Intel Arc A770 (Ltd.) and Intel Arc A750 Ltd: prices and date (image: Intel)
The price has to determine
Only in WQHD did Intel use absolute FPS as a benchmark, in FHD, shortly before the start, only the ratio of price to performance compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 was used – based on the US RRP of the 8 GB version of the A770 or current average market prices (Nvidia). Nvidia brought this up insofar as the manufacturer once again pointed out the cheapest prices for RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti in stores before the Intel embargo fell. So Arc doesn't leave the competition completely cold.
< figure class="gallery__figure"> Intel Arc A770 (Ltd.) and Intel Arc A750 Ltd: prices and date (image: Intel)
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Intel Arc A770 (Ltd.) and Intel Arc A750 Ltd: prices and date (Fig : Intel)
The API is crucial
With the move to the performance-per-price ratio, Intel published benchmarks for DirectX 11 titles for the first time and again pointed out that how Arc positions itself in relation to GeForce or Radeon depends very much on the API.< /p>
Officially, Intel Arc only supports the current APIs (DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL 4.6 and OpenCL 3.0). The driver also understands DirectX 11 and DirectX 10, but the average performance is lower. DirectX 9 is completely left out.
Intel calls the API “Legacy API”, which, considering the introduction of DirectX 10 with Vista in 2006, is undoubtedly not wrong. Nevertheless, the translation from DirectX 9 to DirectX 12 used by Intel via Microsoft's D3D9On12 can still lead to problems today – more on that later.
Intel Arc A770 (Ltd.) and Intel Arc A750 Ltd: prices and dates (Image: Intel)
Test results and benchmarks
ComputerBase recreated all gaming benchmarks used in the test at the end of September/beginning of October. The current game versions were used. The FPS and frame times were determined with CapFrameX, the telemetry data with HWiNFO. The games were tested with the following settings. The selection is made independently of Intel's own benchmarks or a specific consideration of the API used. Nevertheless, in the end most titles rely on the current DirectX 12, preferred by Intel, one on Vulkan and only two on DirectX 11. The course is therefore anything but disadvantageous for Arc.
The test candidates: Arc A770, Arc A750, RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3060, RX 6650 XT, RTX 3050 and Arc A380
The tests were carried out in WQHD, FHD and HD in order to be able to assess the graphics cards in both the GPU and CPU limits. In four games, ray tracing was also added in FHD.
Benchmark API Settings Anno 1800 DirectX 12 Preset Ultra High Cyberpunk 2077 DirectX 12 WQHD, FHD: Ultra/High FHD RT: RT Low/High, FSR/DLSS Off HD: Ultra/High + FSR Performance Death Stranding: Directors Cut DirectX 12 WQHD, FHD: Very High HD: Very High, FSR 1.0 Performance Doom Eternal Vulkan WQHD, FHD, HD: Ultra FHD RT: Ultra, RT on Dota 2 DirectX 11 Maximum details F1 22 DirectX 12 Ultra High, RT off, TAA, 16x AF, FidelityFX Sharpening Guardians DirectX 12 QWHD, FHD: Ultra High FHD RT: Ultra High, RT High HD: Ultra High, FSR 1.0 Performance SotTR DirectX 12 Maximum Details, TAA Spider-Man DirectX 12 FHD, HD: Very High, SSAO WQHD: High FHD RT: Very High, RT High The Witcher 3 DirectX 11 General : High (without Hairworks) Postprocessing: Highest
It was tested on a Ryzen 7 7700X (test) with 32 GB DDR5-5200CL32, on which a current Windows 11 2022 was installed. Intel Arc first used version 3430 and later version 3435, which fixed some errors, as the driver. Both drivers were initially only available to the press. The Nvidia GeForce was tested with the GeForce 517.84, the AMD Radeon with the Adrenalin 22.9.2. rBAR was active.
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GPU power and clocks
Intel Arc A770 Ltd. and Arc A750 Ltd. come to the customer with the same power budget despite different expansion stages of the ACM G10 GPU and 16 vs. 8 GB memory: Both allow the GPU 190 watts and the entire graphics card 225 watts.
There are differences in the clock rates: According to Intel, the A770 typically clocks the GPU at 2,100 MHz and the memory at 17.5 Gbps, with the A750 it is 2,050 and 16.0 Gbps respectively. There is again agreement on the maximum permissible clock rate: 2,400 MHz is the maximum permissible in both cases without manual intervention (OC).
A first look at the course of the GPU power and the clock rates in 3DMark Time Spy shows: Both graphics cards fully utilize the 190 watts of GPU power in the factory state in both GPU tests. The ARC A770 clocks a little below the upper limit of 2,400 MHz, the ARC A750 also scores the clock space over large parts of the benchmark. “svgchart-items” style=”column-count:2″>
Intel Arc A730M (Turbo, 120 W)
Intel Arc A730M (Gaming, 80W)
Intel Arc A730M (Office, 50 W)
Intel Arc A770 (190W GPU)
Intel Arc A770 (228W GPU)
Intel Arc A750 (190W GPU)
Intel Arc A750 (228W GPU)
Intel Arc A380
This explains why the Arc A770 with Maximized GPU power limit (228 instead of 190 watts) also makes use of it and becomes faster in 3DMark Time Spy, while the Arc A750 remains virtually unaffected by this: Without manually raising the upper clock limit, the smaller of the two graphics cards cannot handle the higher power budget at all into more beat.
3DMark Time Spy – GPU Clock 06001.2001.8002.4003.000Mhash/s 1102030405060708090100110120130140150160170180190200seconds
“368913”> Intel Arc A770 (190W GPU)
Intel Arc A770 (228W GPU)
Intel Arc A750 (190W GPU)
Intel Arc A750 (228W GPU)
This does not only apply to the 3DMark Time Spy. A higher power target on the A750 is usually of no use in games either, because the maximum clock of 2,400 MHz was already reached with the factory budget. So much for theory.
Game benchmarks in WQHD (2,560 × 1,440)
On average across all games in the course, the Arc A770 in WQHD is 1 percent ahead of the GeForce RTX 3060 in FPS, the Arc A750 only 7 percent behind. In this case, the Radeon RX 6650 XT remains almost 5 percent ahead, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is 27 percent faster than the Arc A770 in the factory state.
If the GPU power target is increased from 190 to 228 watts, the performance increases by only 2 percent on average, because the maximum permitted clock of 2,400 MHz does not allow the graphics card to make use of the higher budget in every title. The A770 is up to 5 percent faster.
A look at the individual results shows that the distances between the GeForce RTX 3060 and the two Arc graphics cards vary greatly: In Dota 2 and F1 22, things are not looking good for Arc, but in The Witcher 3 – interestingly with DirectX 11 – it is almost the RTX 3060 Ti achieves. An absolute exception in the course.
Arc performs somewhat worse in the 1% percentile frame times: Here, Nvidia's RTX 3060 is 8 percent ahead of the Arc A770. In particular, it is again Dota 2, F1 22 and also Guardians of the Galaxy that cloud the picture – it looks better in other games.
Game benchmarks in FHD (1920 × 1080) with RT
Will be converted from WQHD to FHD changed, but ray tracing activated, confirms that Intel's Alchemist architecture can almost catch up with Nvidia Ampere in this discipline. Although the GeForce RTX 3060 is now ahead of the Arc A770 on average, the gap is small – and the Radeon RX 6650 XT is now clearly beaten. The frame times, on the other hand, are a bit worse in this case.
Full HD RT benchmarks
FPS performance rating
Performance Rating Frametimes
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FHD -RT Benchmarks – Cyberpunk 2077: FPS
FHD RT Benchmarks – Doom Eternal: FPS
FHD RT Benchmarks – Guardians: FPS
FHD RT Benchmarks – Spider-Man: FPS
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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, 200W 7700X, DDR5-5200, FE100
GeForce RTX 3060, 170W 7700X, DDR5-5200, Asus TUF78
In Full HD without ray tracing, Intel Arc falls behind Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon in terms of FPS: On average, Alchemist loses 10 percent to the competition. In comparison to the Radeon RX, this also applies to the frame times, but not quite in comparison to the GeForce RTX 3060.
Full HD benchmarks
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Full HD Benchmarks – Anno 1800: FPS
Full HD Benchmarks – Cyberpunk 2077: FPS
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Full HD Benchmarks – Death Stranding DC: FPS
Full HD Benchmarks – Doom Eternal: FPS
Full HD Benchmarks – Dota 2: FPS
< li>Full HD benchmarks – F1 22: FPS
Full HD benchmarks – Guardians: FPS
Full HD benchmarks – SotTR: FPS
Full HD benchmarks – Spider-Man: FPS
Full HD benchmarks – The Witcher 3: FPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, 200W 7700X, DDR5-5200, FE100
Radeon RX 6650 XT, 180W 7700X, DDR5-5200, PC Hellhound86
GeForce RTX 3060, 170W 7700X, DDR5-5200, Asus TUF79
The benchmarks in HD (partly with FSR on “Performance”), which increasingly focus on the CPU, illustrate the problem that is already visible in Full HD: Depending on the game, Intel Arc or the driver have to struggle with an overhead , which sometimes lets the graphics cards fall behind the competition in terms of CPU limit. The problem isn't just limited to older APIs, such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider or F1 22 show (both DX12), while The Witcher 3 with DirectX 11 is once again the flagship for Arc.
HD benchmarks
FPS performance rating
Performance Rating Frametimes
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HD Benchmarks – Anno 1800: FPS< /li>
HD Benchmarks – Cyberpunk 2077: FPS
HD Benchmarks – Death Stranding DC: FPS
HD Benchmarks – Doom Eternal: FPS
< li>HD Benchmarks – Dota 2: FPS
HD Benchmarks – F1 22: FPS
HD Benchmarks – Guardians: FPS
HD Benchmarks – SotTR: FPS
HD Benchmarks – Spider-Man: FPS
HD Benchmarks – The Witcher 3: FPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, 200W 7700X , DDR5-5200, FE99
Radeon RX 6650 XT, 180W 7700X, DDR5-5200, PC Hellhound86
GeForce RTX 3060, 170W 7700X, DDR5-5200, Asus TUF83
The parcours used in the test includes titles with Vulkan, DirectX 12 and DirectX 11. Games with DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 are not included. This is not surprising, since these APIs have long been outdated and are no longer an issue in new releases. However, even DirectX 9 (the successor DirectX 10 appeared with Vista in 2006) is still not irrelevant and the relevance has a name: Counter-Strike – Global Offensive.
In this context, it was already known in August that Intel's Arc driver no longer supports DirectX 9.
Intel explained in a support document at the time that both the integrated GPUs of the Alder Lake processors (Core 12th Gen) and the discrete graphics cards of the Arc family “no longer natively support D3D9”. However, applications and games based on DirectX 9 could “continue to be run via the Microsoft D3D9On12 interface”.
D3D9On12 is open source software that translates the graphics commands from D3D9 to D3D12 and effectively acts as an alternative GPU driver. Compatibility is thus maintained in a roundabout way.
However, this costs performance – a lot in fact, as a look at Counter-Strike: Global Offensive shows (Map Dust II, maximum details, training without bots).
More than 240 FPS are not possible via the DirectX 9 DirectX 12 detour with Intel Arc, while the same CPU (Ryzen 7 7700X) runs to the CS:GO FPS limit of 400 FPS on graphics cards from Nvidia or AMD. The problem with the frame times is even more desolate: A maximum of 100 FPS with Intel Arc contrasts with a maximum of 300 FPS with Nvidia GeForce RTX and AMD Radeon RX – and the game also jerks noticeably again and again. Whether an Arc A770/A750 or an Arc A380 with less than a third of the shaders is used is practically irrelevant.
Full HD presents almost the same picture, except that in this case the A380 also drops feathers in FPS. But the competition remains miles ahead with 390/300 FPS vs. 240/100 FPS.
Interim conclusion gaming performance
How the Intel Arc A770 and A750 compare to the GeForce RTX 3060 or Radeon RX 6650 XT depends on several factors:
The game.
The API used.
The resolution (or GPU/CPU limit).
The heavier the load on the GPU, the better Arc can position itself. In turn, the more the CPU is in demand, the further Arc is behind.
Only in WQHD does the Arc A770 win the FPS course over the GeForce RTX 3060, in However, both models lag behind on average in lower resolutions or, in principle, in terms of frame times. The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti remains unmatched with the exception of The Witcher 3.
The course does not show that Arc performs much better in games with current APIs than in older ones (DirectX 10 and 11): The Witcher 3 with DirectX 11 obviously suits Arc very well, while DirectX 12 titles like F1 22 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (in CPU limit) cause problems. The performance in the DirectX 9 shooter CS:GO is desolate.
App benchmarks
GPUs can do more than games, they can take over CPU tasks such as video editing or rendering via the shaders – provided they are controlled accordingly (CUDA, OpenCL etc.) – or they can efficiently and quickly “in hardware” produce videos via the integrated video decoder and encoder. de- and encode.
Intel Arc already presented itself comparatively strong in this area – not only, but also because the Alchemist architecture is the first ever, the AV1 can encode in hardware. Arc A770 and Arc A750 are no exception.
With AV1 encoding in HandBrake, the two Arc graphics cards do their rounds alone in this test and overshadow even the strongest CPU with software encoding. If the H.265 codec is selected instead of AV1, which other GPUs can also handle, Arc is also in the lead.
Charts
HandBrake Nightly (2022090501) – 2160p60 H.264 to 2160p60 AV1
HandBrake Nightly (2022090501) – 2160p60 H.264 to 2160p60 H.265
Intel Arc is also strong in Adobe Premiere Pro when it comes to exporting a video (source 4K60 and 8K30) in MP4 (H.265) format, which includes transitions, slow-motion effects and color grading. In this case, both graphics cards draw level with the GeForce RTX 3060. Intel Arc is a little further behind in creating a 3D model based on 87 photos of the same object. Intel Arc is again far behind in the Blender benchmark, which has also supported Intel Arc in principle since version 3.0.0. But Arc doesn't stand a chance against the GeForce RTX 3060.
Charts
Adobe Premiere Pro 22.5
Agisoft Metashape 1.8.4
Blender Benchmark 3.2 .1
16 entries Adobe Premiere Pro 22.5
4K60/8K24 + Effects/Color Grading to 4K60 H.265 (Hardware):
What Intel Arc A770 and Arc A750 are able to do, has been comprehensively outlined. The question arises as to what electrical power both graphics cards need to consume.
Power consumption under load and when idling
190 watts of GPU power consumption and its confirmation in the telemetry data from HWiNFO already indicated the direction that the measurement of the total power consumption of the graphics cards will take. At just over 230 watts, the Arc A770 in Doom Eternal is slightly above and the Arc A750 at 220 watts is slightly below the official TDP. The GeForce RTX 3060, which is comparably fast in this game, has 170 watts. So far, so expected.
Power consumption while gaming
Doom Eternal, 3840 × 2160
Doom Eternal, 2560 × 1440
Doom Eternal, 1920 × 1080
Gaming power consumption – Doom Eternal, 3840 × 2160
Unit: Watt (W) Power consumption when playing – Doom Eternal, 1920 × 1080
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060104
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050129
AMD Radeon RX 6600135
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT148
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT148
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060159
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060173
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT176
AMD Radeon RX 580179
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080179
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti203
AMD Radeon RX 6800206
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super206
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT212
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070217
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT218
Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition222
AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT223
Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition230
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT294
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT296
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64299
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080316
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT344
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 12GB353
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti358
XFX Radeon RX 6900 XT XTXH372
Sapphire RX 6950 XT Nitro+ Pure375
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti387
Asus GeForce RTX 3090 Strix OC392
Unit: Watt (W)
A real surprise in the test was again the consumption of the two graphics cards on the Windows desktop: Intel Arc A750 and Intel Arc A770 consume 41 and 47 watts respectively in this mode, where more than 10 watts are now considered comparatively high. Intel confirmed the readings by the editors.
The high basic consumption also catches up with the Arc graphics cards in SDR playback on YouTube. Intel Arc, on the other hand, reproduces the same video in HDR comparatively efficiently, because the competition – especially Nvidia – has even more to nibble on in this operating mode.
Power consumption, Windows desktop
Complete idle
YouTube video
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3840 × 2160, 60 Hz:
AMD Radeon RX 66005
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT5
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT5
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT7
Nvidia GeForce GTX 10607
AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT8
AMD Radeon RX 68008
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT8
XFX Radeon RX 6900 XT XTXH8
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT9
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT9
Nvidia GeForce GTX 10809
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT10
Sapphire RX 6950 XT Nitro+ Pure10
Nvidia GeForce RTX 305010
Nvidia GeForce RTX 206011
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super11
Nvidia GeForce RTX 306011
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti11
Nvidia GeForce RTX 307011
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT12
Nvidia GeForce RTX 308012
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6413
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti13
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 12GB14
Asus GeForce RTX 3090 Strix OC15
AMD Radeon RX 58016
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti25
Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition41
Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition47
Dual monitor, 2 × 3840 × 2160, 60 Hz:
Nvidia GeForce RTX 305013
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6415
Nvidia GeForce RTX 306019
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti20
Nvidia GeForce RTX 307021
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT22
AMD Radeon RX 660023
Nvidia GeForce RTX 308023
< li class="chart__row">AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT24
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti24
Nvidia GeForce GTX 106026
< li class="chart__row">Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 12GB26
Asus GeForce RTX 3090 Strix OC27
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT29
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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT33
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super34
Nvidia GeForce RTX 206035
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti35
Nvidia GeForce GTX 108037
AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT39
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT39
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT40
XFX Radeon RX 6900 XT XTXH40
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AMD Radeon RX 680041
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT41
AMD Radeon RX 58042
< li class="chart__row">Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition42
Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition48
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT50
Sapphire RX 6950 XT Nitro+ Pure50
Unit: Watt (W) Power Consumption, Windows Desktop – YouTube Video
3840 × 2160, 60 FPS:
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT15
Nvidia GeForce RTX 305015
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT17
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT18
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super19
Nvidia GeForce RTX 306019
Nvidia GeForce RTX 307019
AMD Radeon RX 660020
Nvidia GeForce RTX 206020
AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT22
< li class="chart__row">Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti23
Nvidia GeForce GTX 108024
Nvidia GeForce GTX 106025
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT30
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT30
Nvidia GeForce RTX 308030
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT32
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT32
AMD Radeon RX 680033
XFX Radeon RX 6900 XT XTXH34
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti34
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT36
Sapphire RX 6950 XT Nitro+ Pure36
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 12GB36
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti36
Asus GeForce RTX 3090 Strix OC37
Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition45
Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition53
3840 × 2160 HDR, 60 FPS:
Nvidia GeForce RTX 305028
AMD Radeon RX 660030
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT31
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT32
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super35
Nvidia GeForce RTX 306036
Nvidia GeForce RTX 307038
Nvidia GeForce RTX 206039
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti40
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT43
Nvidia GeForce GTX 106043
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT45
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT45
AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT47
Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition50
Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition57
AMD Radeon RX 680060
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT61
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT61
XFX Radeon RX 6900 XT XTXH61
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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT63
Sapphire RX 6950 XT Nitro+ Pure63
Nvidia GeForce RTX 308066< /li>
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti68
Nvidia GeForce GTX 108076
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti81
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 12GB82
Asus GeForce RTX 3090 Strix OC87
Unit: Watts (W)
Performance losses at lower TDP
To what extent Intel Arc A770 and Arc A750 also need the comparatively high power consumption in games in order to reach the level shown, ComputerBase has looked in detail in Doom Eternal (WQHD). For the test, the GPU power in the driver on the Arc A770 was varied in 10-watt increments from 100 watts (95 watts is the minimum allowed) to the maximum (228 watts). Doubling the GPU power (200 instead of 100 watts) resulted in 40 percent higher FPS in this scenario, which is not a particularly good scaling.
Assuming that the gap between GPU power and the total consumption of the graphics card (TGP) falls analogously to the GPU power (factory: 190 watts GPU power results in 230 watts TGP), a configuration of the Arc A770 with 140 watts of GPU power should be roughly equivalent to a GeForce RTX 3060 with 170 watts of TGP. In Doom, this configuration would mean a performance loss of 13 percent.
The measured values show that the Arc A770 does not consume a large part of the power consumption for the last x percent, as some products recently do, but scales fairly linearly with the power consumption. However, the increase in performance per watt is comparatively small.
Driver Anomalies and Problems
When testing the Intel Arc A380 in July, the driver used at the time (30.0.101.1743) was a disaster, which was not repeated when testing the Intel Arc A730M in September with driver 30.0.101.3276. The driver versions 30.0.101.3433 and 30.0.101.3435 now provided by Intel performed a bit better in terms of error susceptibility. Game crashes were only recorded in Spider-Man with driver 3433; this problem was also solved with driver 3435.
Nevertheless, this test did not run without problems either shortcomings or even mistakes. Specifically, the following points have been noticed over the past few days:
Spider-Man would not start or crash with driver 3433 if RT reflections were activated before starting or in-game. Driver 3435 fixed the problem, but the RT reflections showed clearly visible display errors (A770, A750, A380). Display error of RT reflections in Spider- Man: Remastered
Even with driver 30.0.101.3435, HBAO+ cannot be used in Spider-Man (part of the “Very High” preset), display errors occur (A770, A750, A380). < /figure>
Even with driver 3435, there are display errors in Spider-Man: Remastered with HBAO+ instead of SSAO
If FSR 2.0 is used in Death Stranding: Director's Cut on an Arc graphics card, there are severe graphics errors when stationary, which disappear immediately when moving.
Blender Benchmark 3.0 (Render Engine 3.0.0) aborts with an error message (Arc A380 only).
The Intel Arc Control Panel is still designed as an overlay. The Windows + Print command for screenshots is no longer ignored per se (OneDrive asks for storage in the cloud in the background), but screenshots are not created.
The Affinity Photo application starts, but after the Confirming the test phase but closed without error message (Arc A770, A750 and A380). Planned benchmarks therefore failed.
After changing the Arc graphics card, the driver must be reinstalled, and the installed driver (e.g. for A750) is automatically initialized on the new card (e.g. A770). not take place.
A GPU clock offset of more than 50 leads to a crash immediately after confirmation in the Control Panel.
Overclocking
Intel Arc A770 and Arc A750 can be elicited a little more performance via the Intel Arc Control Center with two adjustment screws – at least in theory. The first is the maximum power loss available to the GPU, which is 190 watts ex works for both graphics cards, but can alternatively be increased to 228 watts (or reduced to 95 watts). The other is raising the maximum allowable GPU clock.
In practice, only the Intel Arc A770 benefited from a GPU power target increased from 190 to 228 watts, on average over the entire course it was 2 percent in WQHD , around 5 percent at the top. The total power consumption of the graphics card increases from 230 to 290 watts. With the Intel Arc A750, on the other hand, little or nothing happened.
The reason: The Intel Arc A750, which operates with fewer Xe cores, already clocks the GPU with 190 watts of GPU power at or just under the maximum clock rate of 2,400 MHz that is permissible without intervention, while the Intel Arc A770 – depending on the game – still offers up to 200 MHz reserve, which it can then use with 228 watts of GPU power.
For this reason, only the Arc A770 with maximized power limit is in included in the WQHD and FHD RT benchmarks above.
The 2,400 MHz limit can be circumvented in the driver by defining an offset between 0 and 100 percent (not MHz) via “GPU performance boost”. An offset of 10 corresponded to 2,435 instead of 2,400 MHz in the test with the Arc A770. Since an offset of more than 50 leads to a crash without delay after saving in the driver, the editors have not devoted any further time to this aspect for the time being.
Conclusion
The wait and the weekly marketing tidbits are over: With the Arc A770 and Arc A750, the large Alchemist graphics cards with a focus on PC gaming will be released in a week after a long delay. However, Intel is still a long way from reaching its goal, as the test made more than clear. The hoped-for alternative to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 is not the Intel Arc A770 and Arc A750.
The Arc A770 Limited Edition and Arc A750 Limited Edition, as well as the provided drivers 30.0.101.3433 and 30.0.101.3435, were undoubtedly much better than the Gunnir Arc A380 Proton 6G imported by ComputerBase in July with the then public driver 30.0.101.1743. There were no more crashes in the game course with the latest driver and the two limited editions are very high quality instead of extremely cheap.
But viewed soberly, Intel still didn't manage to offer gamers an alternative to GeForce RTX or AMD Radeon RX that should be considered without hesitation at the beginning of October. This is also, but by no means only, due to the delivered performance.
Intel Arc A770 and Arc A750 Limited Edition Review
It presented itself as follows: The Intel Arc A770 can only achieve a narrow victory over the GeForce RTX 3060 on average in the WQHD course and only there in the FPS. In terms of frame times and in lower resolutions, GeForce and Radeon are again ahead. The Arc A750 typically follows the Arc A770 by less than 10 percent. On average, Arc is far away from the performance in synthetic benchmarks, where even the RTX 3060 Ti is achieved.
It's no wonder that Intel recently put the price/performance ratio into the field. But this comparison only referred to the USA, while Intel did not even name a price for Germany in advance. To what extent an Arc A770 Limited Edition will really be cheaper in Germany than a GeForce RTX 3060, which is available from 380 euros, remains to be seen. 349 US dollars RRP excluding taxes, taking into account the current exchange rate and 19 percent VAT, makes you doubt that the price is significantly less than 380 euros.
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Graphics cards and thus Intel Arc should not be considered purely from the perspective of FPS per euro. The video decoding and encoding as well as, to a limited extent, the compute performance and the processing of the Limited Edition are positive for Intel Arc. On the other hand, the power consumption (including at least 40 watts in idle mode under Windows), the fluctuating performance depending on the game and/or API and the desolate performance in DirectX 9 titles, which will not affect everyone, but still one, have to be rated negatively Restriction of the platform compared to the competing offers means.
In combination with the rarer but still existing driver problems even in flagship titles named by Intel (see Spider-Man), Intel Arc in the form of A770 and A750 clearly missed the goal set by Intel of millions of players this year To offer a more attractively priced alternative to the top dogs, of course. Intel Arc is too late, not fast enough and still has too many limitations.
This is not for the market, nor for gamers, nor for Intel good news and it is to be hoped that Intel will stay on the ball with GPUs in general and specifically with Arc for gaming offshoots and will solve the problems. But October 2022 is the State of the Arc.
Model MSRP (before tax) Vendor Available from Arc A770 Limited Edition (16GB) $349 Intel October 12 Arc A770 (8GB) $329 Partners (Gunnir, ASRock, MSI…) ? Arc A750 Limited Edition (8 GB) 289 USD Intel October 12
It would be nice if Intel accompanied the upcoming work on Alchemist and its successors with a different communication strategy. Building up first and then messing up at the end didn't do the 1st generation any good. The 2nd should do better on this point as well.
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