$140 Intel ARC a380 GPU 😱 | Any Good for Premiere Pro?

welcome to Tech notice so this over here is a tiny little PC and inside there we have an i5 13600k which actually packs quite a lot of calls but even more interestingly we have an Intel Arc GPU inside there so this is an arc A380 and this comes roughly around 150 160 dollars something like that and what I want to know is as a video editor how good is this combination of a PC inside this small chassis first of all are we able to keep it cool down when video editing what type of codecs are we going to be playing back and how does the igpu and dgpu combination work together which decoders are we going to be using how does video get played back let's find out looking for a cheap way to license your windows check out who Keys through the links in the video description make sure to use the code tn20 to get a 30 off paste the license to the activation settings and you're all done this license is for Windows 10 but you can upgrade it to Windows 11 for free they also offer Microsoft Office 19 license use the same called tn20 to get a 30 off check out who keys.com in the video description below and what you can see here we have the 13600k 14 cores and 20 threads we've got 32 gigabytes of ddr5 and it's running at 5200 Mega transfers per second I don't know why we've got a random little glitch over there there we go we've got an igpu turned on which comes from the CPU the UHD 770 and then the arc A380 the A380 only has six gigabytes of dedicated video memory I think when using Premiere Pro here we're going to be probably bottlenecked by some of the ram here because I only have 32 gigabytes but we'll see how far and how well do we do just change the ram settings here to the absolute lowest so that it doesn't Reserve any extra that we don't need we're also using a Premiere Pro 23.1 version of this or this is the version 23 and also in terms of the renderer we're going to be using this this opencl Mercury playback there as well so these are the settings basically just stock settings nothing's changed really we've got a little color grade applied there as well so this is just um some simple Luts and curves and something like that just to kind of put a little bit of stress on the GPU as well so we see how well does this work so I'm going to press play for a resolution let's see what plays this back over here okay D chord one the igpu is playing this back and that's why we've got very very like low power consumption as well as you can see so if you go here the CPU is consuming 43 Watts so it doesn't have to play it on the actual CPU but just on the igpu so if you scroll through it's super super smooth no worries about 8-bit 4K 60 frames per second four to zero h264 no problem all of the Clips here the minimum resolution is 4K just so you know so if I don't mention more than you know 4K then it's 4K clip everything is 4K here this is 10 bit exactly the same thing so not just 8-bit but 10 bit let's have a look this time we're still decoding this on the um igpu interestingly not on the GPU so yep completely fine this is now 10 bit 422 30 frames per second h364 which will most likely be played back on the CPU yep no decoding in here neither in there it plays back no frames dropped even with a color grade so it's completely fine scrubbing makes the CPU go you know a little bit hot there what 87 degrees there we reach just because it does take a lot of CPU power moving on to 4 to 2 25 frames per second pressing play here it's fine scrubbing timeline very fast as well like I've got no issues really pressing play it's very very instant timeline scrubbing on this 25 frames per second is a little bit choppy but this is as good as it's gonna get that's how good as I've ever been here that's as good as I've ever seen it and then this second clip here is an SI or all intra clip from the Sony a7s3 so it's much more smoother it's a little bit easier to play back I think this should be played back on the CPU as well yeah as you can see there's nothing there now but if I do scrub on this it will be on the CPU and if I press play the playback will be actually on the CPU there we're playing back there bear in mind this is with the color grade on there as well so I'm I'm quite impressed actually this is 422 60 frames per second here's your 264 so this should be on the CPU yep as you can see 40 about playback on the CPU oh did we drop some frames no three frames not a continuous drop so that's all right 60 frames per second that's not bad shrubbing on the timeline is pretty good as well obviously the fans are kicking in quite loud on it right now an occasional drop of frame comes in there we've dropped through two Fame frames as you can see there but this is full resolution you know when you'll be editing this you'll probably go half the resolution anyway on the 4K clip because this is not a 4K resolution on your screen so this is h265 now and I think this is 20 fifty frames per second yes 50 frames per second and when you're pressing play so this should be now played back on the igpu is it decoded there yep interestingly the GPU decoding hasn't actually kicked in yet even though the GPU decoder should be even better than the igpu ones because the the GPU on the arc there on the arc gpus can decode up to 8K and av1 h.264 nh265 codex you know depending on problems with blood sampling and so on but at up to 60 frames per second which is quite crazy so here we have dropped six frames there on the igpu but very very smooth playback on the 10-bit 4-0 footage there moving on to Canon c200 okay so this is a little bit of a harder footage because this is 60 frames per second as well and this is a dcie 4K okay pressing let's press play look at that zero frames dropped that 13600k is seriously impressive look at that look at those 14 cores just getting on with it zero frames dropped 60 frames per second Canon c200 Raw that is pretty insane and this scrubbing on the timeline with the color grade on as well is very very smooth so this is two c200 clips on top of each other 100 utilized 4.6 gigahertz running on those cars but look at that zero frames dropped and we're still running this is just two shots of the Moon it is doing it that's absolutely crazy we have thermal throttle there though I think we just whoa on quite a lot of the P cars there's only one p chord that hasn't thermal threshold yet so this is The Nutcracker of a codec that usually breaks a lot of the systems this is 4K 60 frames per second h265 422 from Canon R5 and usually when you play this back you don't actually get any smooth playback at all okay interestingly when you start off it kind of drops a few frames it does keep dropping frames actually which is interesting the Igbo here is pretty much maxed out as you can see the decoder depending on the clip it actually changes the D chords inside of the media engines comes from One Clip to the other one it is dropping actually frames on Full Resolution which is interesting I wonder what's the bottleneck here maybe it's this GPU that we're running out of GPU memory well looks like GPU memory is there 3D what is 100 Here video decode video processing copy compute compute there we go compute is hundred percent so if we take the color grade off let's see if that's any different I'm gonna press play zero frames dropped there we go it doesn't have to compute the playback anymore on the dedicated GPU so screwing through the timeline as well you can see it's super super smooth playing it back is no problem at all it's just when you've got the color grade on then the GPU starts to be the bottleneck because it just can't put that color grid on top of it and play it back in real time that's the first bottleneck now of that dedicated GPU but for 160 dollars not bad let's see if we could uh if we lower the resolution to half there we go problem sorted look at that compute anymore is not 100 it's just because the 4K resolution 60 frames per second 402 it just can't handle it on that GPU half the resolution no problem with the color grade fine full resolution now this is red 4K raw we're going to press play no problem as you can see our computes there is cracking on with it no problem very very smooth as well this is like a combination of CPU and GPU playback on the red before we move to the higher resolutions let's try this here so this is 120 frames per second um playback so this is 8-bit 420 120 frames per second it's a 264. let's see what plays it back okay it gets played back on the CPU and quite an impressive playback actually Yep looks like we're only dropping seven frames as you get going you drop a few frames but then that's fine timeline is so so but all right this is h26442 10 bit which means that it's going to be massively on the CPU as well so software playback but only eight frames we've dropped during this playback this is history 265420 10 bit 120 frames per second let's press play and see if this is going to be interesting it still chooses to use the igpud code rather than the dedicated gpod code as you can see here now we're dropping a few frames but same thing in here 422 AC 265 10 bit that should be played back on the you know dedicated GPO decoders but nope not gonna do it this is red 5K let's press play see if we can play this back okay and we're dropping frames okay here's the CPU bottleneck now thermal throttle link not at the moment but we're not quite able to do it so this is red 6K now okay with color grade let's press play nope not quite let's take the color grade off give it a little bit of an ease um okay we're dropping quite a few frames there let's try these new footage as someone sent me no definitely can't do 6K let's try B raw 6K because that is quite an easy footage to play back a bit easier than red 6K still be raw 6K yeah it's very very smooth plays back no problem two clips on top of each other yeah it's fine let's put color grade on as well and yeah there we go that's where we start dropping frames because the GPU is going to be the bottleneck can't quite play the color grade back the lumetri color is actually accelerated on the on the GPU yep okay let's try 8K as well so this is Canon R5 8K half the resolution and we're still dropping frames this time with thermal throttling as well on most of the cars and hello okay probably not 125 watts 122 Watts 65 Watts oh interestingly quarter resolution plays back scrubbing through no problem let's see with the color grade and that was with the color grade actually that's good news look that's very very smooth today's editable actually okay red 8K raw press play without the color grades all right wait wait wait wait wait wait wait and press play 140 Watts 142 Watts Bolt from the sockets it will drop 51 frames but it's kind of okay well that was half the resolution let's try full resolution yeah it's complete cheesecake nothing comes through here absolutely nothing happens okay so here's the thing the um encoders chose the igpu more of the time rather than the D GPU and as you can see our CPU was the bottleneck in quite a few of the things because obviously with thermal throttling and only six P cars here the rest of them are equals they do stuff as well but um they don't run as fast and when we're looking at our GPU here Intel Arc you can see that the total power we only pulled was 40 Watts there okay looks like we've got a graphics card update there as well we're gonna update that see if that is any different I did check that actually before the video so they might have just launched it during the video I did run this Intel driver and support assistant just before I filmed this video just to double check that we've got up to date drivers but looks like we don't so here's a GPU Performance Tuning as well because the A380 can actually be like overclocked over we call it I'm going to put the GPU thermal limit first of all 95 degrees it's completely five Max Core Power limit to 66 Watts okay performance boost 100 and then in terms of millivolts let's add extra 100 or something like that on over voltage okay let's uh apply systems settings on system reboot okay performance boost 100 whatever that one performance boost mean we're gonna add extra GPU power let's add extra do you want let's put it all to flipping maximum let's see what happens okay there we go and let's restart looks like uh we've crashed the GPU okay what we'll do is just wattage limit and performance boost we're going to do that no millivoltages added this time okay we'll see if we can pull any more wattage through there than before interesting it's initializing GPU which is a first thing that I've seen I haven't seen that with AMD or in Nvidia gpus okay let's see if it's any better now full resolution of this and would you look at that a driver update can do miracles look at that we're playing this back it's the same system nothing's changed would you look at that okay we're dropping one frame there now I'm not sure if this is because we've um pushed the power limit a little bit higher and maybe the GPU can the clock speed can go higher through Intel Arc control or the driver update let's reset to defaults this okay and let's try this now look at that that's the actual problem so when you get the GPU because look at the temperature of our CPU like what 66 degrees maximum right we've pulled 39 Watts it's it's completely fine when I'm pressing play okay zero frames drop right now [Music] does look like it's dropping a little bit frames but not as much as before so the driver up that did make a difference but let's put these settings back there just to get the maximum performance out of this GPU it still uses the igpu to play back some of the footage even when we go through like here this 120 frames per second look 24 frames dropped and if you look here the igp or D code one is not happening here's the thing that I want to do I'm going to go to bios and switch off the igpu okay so it has to use the dedicated encoders or media engines inside the GPU and let's see if these are any better because if that is true and perhaps you want to go with a KF series CPUs then you might get your media engines on the actual GPU but you know I don't really recommend the KF or the F variant of the CPUs but this could be very interesting so now as you can see the igpu is gone from there let me change this to decode one so we can see when it's playing back these things okay straight away here we are let's Press Play Let's see what happens this is better though only seven frames dropped why he played back on the CPU not on the dgpu now that's odd okay nothing gets played back on there let's see this one here now look at that so the actual media engines on the GPU aren't doing anything now we're dropping absolutely loads of frames here and Flames as well because the CPU is going so hot because it tries to play this back on software so this is what would happen if you're for example on ryzen system and you're trying to play back this and you don't have Intel quick sync that's what's gonna happen but what I want to know is like is it gonna play back anything here on the actual GPU no everything literally goes on the CPU as you can see the video is it's not decoding anything okay but interestingly here if I go to this is Japan AK uh by armadas and if you look at this this is actually av1 here we're playing back 81 codec here so this is the codec right this is 8k I'm playing back right here um looks like it's dcie it's a DCA no it's just normal okay 8K and then now we can see decoders doing something here okay we can see a little bit of this mid engine inside the GPU actually playing this back this is pretty cool I don't know what these guys are doing but flipping heck long conclusion here then there's some disappointments and let me get these out of the way first first of all the actual Arc kind of media engines inside as much as I love they used to be amazing looks like the programs are actually set up to use the igpo corders encoders in there because they're much much better even though in reality the DGP or the arc GPU encoders and media engines are much more powerful and they have much better specs like av1 and 8K 60 frames per second h264 and 5 playback they still prefer the Igbo which is just interesting like it could be both right if we had this one and let's say an RTX 1490 in a system and then a 12 or 13 900k for example then we could get very interesting playback hopefully Premiere Pro could utilize the actual Arc media engines and Nvidia media engines and the igp as well all to choose which one is best but right now I'm a little bit disappointed just the actual support for the arc media engines because I know they're good the specs are good but we just can't utilize it can't see actual real world performance on that in terms of the GPU actual timeline performance and how well did it perform I was actually quite surprised like there was quite a bit of quite a heavy color grade on there like if you if you actually seen the color red I think there was two lots and a Curves in there or maybe one lots and curves so it's quite a bit to actually you know play back on there and it was fine up to 4K whenever we went above 4K or above 60 frames per second 4K then it started to struggle but if you push the power a little bit on the arc control then you'll get a little bit of performance back and it runs very very efficient there which is really nice to see so if you want maybe like a Jeep GPU that can do some basic color grading but has very good capabilities of playing back a lot of monitors for example like you can play 4 for 8K monitors back in there which is just ridiculous right it's because very good media engine to play back any video back on your systems then this could be very very interesting there now it is idling about 16 Watts there at the moment which is not bad for a triplet design gpus but in terms of the 13600k combination I was quite surprised how well this guy actually keeps up with it so as long as you keep up to 4K and including 4K and you don't go above 4K like to 5K above then you completely fine editing your video which is really really nice to see all sorts of mirrorless camera codecs even c200 you saw no problem editing that back nature 265 because of the igpu inside absolutely amazing amazing performance obviously would be nice to see how far this CPU can stretch itself if we had the likes of 30 90 TI or 40 series gpus like a 4070 TI or something like that maybe we should check that out let me know if you want to check this out comment in the comment section below if you want to build yourself create a PC then check out the best bang for work create a PC build guide in the description below where I'm going to lay out the best parts for you to buy for your budget whatever budget you have there's a video for you there you can configure it I'll explain it all in the video check it out in the description below likes and 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Length: 25min 3sec (1503 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 07 2023