Intel ARC A750 vs Radeon RX 6600 - Did Intel's New Drivers Deliver?

when it comes to Affordable graphics cards Intel is the first brand to give us some actual good news this year they dropped the price of this Arc a750 GPU from about 290 dollars to 250 dollars and they also released a Big Driver update that is supposed to improve performance in a ton of games so I thought this was a great moment to talk about this card a bit more and now that the dust has settled and see how it compares to its main competitor in that 250 ish price class which is the AMD Radeon RX 6600 so without further Ado let's begin this is the Intel Arc a750 limited edition and it is a very good looking card custom cards in this price class usually feel a lot lighter and a bit more Plastic Fantastic but this one is built quite well and I really like its neutral design that will match well with most other Hardware it is only about 27 centimeters long two slots thick and it is barely wider than the pcie slot so it will be compatible with most cases out there to Power It Up you need an 8 pin and a 6 pin connection though I personally would have preferred two eight pin connectors because the cables would look a bit nicer with most power supplies you will have the extra two pin connections sticking out in the marketing intel was focusing their comparisons on the RTX 3060 from Nvidia but a 3060 is a lot more expensive and I personally think that Nvidia cards kind of get interesting from a 3060 TI and up so I put this Arc up against a much more likely competitor which is the AMD Radeon RX 6600 I have the gigabyte Eagle version here which should be among the cheaper options in the US you can buy an RX 6600 for about 250 dollars and in the EU you usually have a few options around or just under 300 Euros so in terms of price these two cards are direct competitors since my usual 3900k bench was busy with testing direct storage I've tested these cars with a ryzen 7600x system instead all the data is fresh and I was using the latest GPU drivers if you want to know the exact details of the test bench and all the test conditions do check the description of this video so let's see some numbers starting with the 1080p resolution in cyberpunk 2077 Arc is off to a great start it is a bit faster in both average FPS and 1 lows which are represented with a darker color in the graphs the 8750 stays nicely above 60 FPS while the RX 6600 dips below every once in a while Spider-Man remastered is a game that really benefits from a higher frame rate and here the arc is on average about 17 faster than the 6600 in my arc build video from a while ago I mentioned that the Dying Light 2 had some graphic bugs with the Intel card but those have been fixed with the latest driver as well so performance wise it is more than 25 ahead of the RX 6600 and it is Comfortably above 60 FPS while the 6600 struggles in this game in Rainbow Six Siege The Arc is also looking strong but it is a lot closer here to the AMD and I would say both cards are perfectly capable of playing this game at high frame rates in do maternal intel was showing better average FPS but worse one percent lows though here as well both cars manage to play this game smoothly in Anno 1800 Intel and AMD are pretty much tied but not every game has the arc competing that well so in Troy Total War the RX 6600 is ahead by a few frames which calculates to about six percent in Far Cry 6 the Gap is about 11 in favor of AMD but Intel does Run the game well in God of War until again manages to make the game nicely playable but the AMD card is about 15 ahead and in watchdog's Legion AMD also leads by about 15 Assassin's Creed Valhalla is one game where AMD has consistently done very well when compared to Nvidia and it is pretty much the same when it comes to Intel AMD is about 28 faster on average and Intel's one percent lows drop just below 60 FPS and finally see us go it is one game Intel has struggled with in the past but it has made some really good progress with the latest driver updates AMD is still ahead but Intel's gotten to the point where the game actually works well so there is a pretty big variance per game because some games run way better on Intel and some games run better on AMD but with these 12 games that I've tested the RX 6600 is ahead by an average of three percent but keep in mind that could be different and if you test a different set of games so I would say your game preference can really determine which card makes more sense to you and I cannot really say what type of a game favors Intel or AMD both take a clear win in some competitive Esports titles for example and both have clear wins in big Triple A single player games as well so if you mostly play one game do check which card does better there but what matters most is that if you do go for an Intel GPU you should generally get a pretty good experience fast games work well on high refresh rate monitors plenty of games run in the 100 to 120 FPS range and even the heaviest games managed to stay well above 60 FPS for that smooth experience and this is all with high graphic settings when it comes to Quad HD gaming while I personally think that for series 1440p gaming you should consider as spending a bit more on your GPU but between these cards Intel manages to do a bit better than radio on here they're only a handful of games where AMD manages to outperform Intel and in the games that get really hard to run like cyberpunk 2077 and Dying Light 2 for example the RX 6600 struggles a bit more on 1440p Intel leads in eight games including three games where the Gap is about 30 or more and amd's only significant can win is in CS go since Arc can use both Intel's own X ESS upscaling as well as amd's FSR upscaling with those enabled we actually get 60 plus FPS on all those games that are hard to run but luckily do support upscaling So if you really cannot spend more on your GPU than 250 dollars and you want to play on a 4040p monitor Arc does seem like a good option but there are also some other things to consider here so this is a first generation product and that can be an issue sometimes as they're still kind of finding their sweet spot so I had issues with Dying Light 2 with the older drivers but while those are fixed with the newest drivers control for example didn't want to run at all anymore now I'm sure there's going to be fixed as well but maybe that will cause bugs in some other titles so you kind of have to accept that sometimes you might run into some issues especially with games that are not as mainstream stream as others so even though amd's reputation with drivers is far from perfect it is still the safer choice another really important thing to remember is the fact that for Intel Arc to run well your PC needs to support resizable bar which is something that older systems will not support you need at least an AMD ryzen 3000 CPU or newer with a 400 or 500 series motherboard and for Intel you need to go for the 10th gen or newer if you're on an older platform than that and you just want to upgrade your GPU the RX 6600 is the way to go but the biggest problem that I see here is the power consumption The Arc uses more power when gaming but more importantly it uses way more power than the Radeon card in idle and rx6600 drops to under 5 Watts when not being used while the Intel consistently uses 35 Watts or more so if you're paying very little for electricity like 10 cents per kilowatt hour and you're not using your PC that much let's say it's turned on and idling for 2R hours a day and you're gaming for an hour or so that difference is not going to mean that much in this case buying an arc instead of the radiant would only cost you a little bit over ten dollars over three years but depending on your use and power costs in your country the difference can go up quickly even at a pretty reasonable 20 cents per kilowatt hour if you're someone that games a lot you're looking at fifty dollars over three years in extra electricity costs and the idle power draw especially hurts if you're someone who uses their gaming PC for light work during the day now for Europeans that are paying 50 cents per kilowatt hour the difference starts to become a huge problem in my opinion now depending on your use case so you might spend another 100 or even 200 or more Euros just to run the arc instead of the Radeon card and with our 90 cents per kilowatt hour that we're paying here in Holland you're basically wasting a GPU upgrade every three to four years and again what you're looking at here is only the difference in power costs between running the arc and the RX 6600 not the total cost and I do expect that Intel will fix this soon enough they've made huge improvements to their performance and to their stability and within a few months the arc has become a very competitive product and then with this price drop it is also a very good value option too just the fact that we actually have some affordable GPU options that offer decent performance is something that we all should be very happy about but until they do address this idle power draw it is really only an option if you don't use your PC for hours every day or if you live in a place that has electricity cheap now before I go this video is sponsored by seasonic and their Prime TX power supplies these fully modular high quality power supplies are extremely efficient they are very quiet due to their new hybrid fan control that stops the fans completely under 40 load they offer a variety of connections for any kind of system you have in mind and you even get the new 12 volt high power connection you need for the latest RTX cards from Nvidia they range from 650 Watts all the way up to 1600 Watts for the biggest enthusiasts out there and is a nice little bonus you get a cozy 12 year long warranty check them out using the link in the description below this is all I have for today do let me know in the comments down below what do you think about this Arc GPU and if this is the affordable option you would ever consider thank you so much for watching this video and I'll see you all in the next one bye foreign [Music]

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Length: 11min 34sec (694 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 09 2023