Intel ARC A770 & A750: 18 Months Later - Finally Worth it?

Intel's Arc gpus released almost 2 years ago officially released we didn't get to see dedicated gpus like the a770 or a750 until the end of 2022 ark's initial launch was rough due to poor performance caused by driver issues since then Intel has put forth a lot of work to improve their drivers and is seeing increases in performance by up to 75% in some titles so how are they in 2024 I had to see for myself and of of course share everything with [Music] you believe it or not Intel's Hardware is a force to be met on paper these things look amazing but we'll have to see if that transfers over to real world testing I've got a total of four gpus for today's comparison and all of them come in under $300 the first card in the lineup is the Acer Predator by Frost a770 it's got a 2.2 GHz Graphics clock a 2.4 GHz boost clock and it comes with 16 GB of gddr6 memory now this runs on a 256-bit memory bus at 17.5 gbits per second which gives you an effective bandwidth of 560 GB per second I know those numbers don't really mean a lot to you now but just try to remember them because things change as I move along the stack the a770 runs at 225 wats of board power so I wouldn't really call that efficient the cheapest a770 I was able to find as of today's filming is this exact model the Acer Predator bifrost OC comes in at $284.9 over on NewEgg after a $15 off promo code huge thanks to our friends over at Sky tech gaming who sponsored today's video they provided the a770 that we used in today's testing to give us a wider look at Intel's Arc lineup of course the other Intel card I used in today's testing is their a750 limited edition which I picked up over on Amazon during their Black Friday sale for $180 it's got a250 MHz Graphics clock and a 2400 MHz boost clock which is the same as the a770 it does have 8 GB of gddr6 memory which is half of the a770 is they both run on a 256-bit memory bus with the a750 at 16 GBS per second this gives an effective memory bandwidth of 512 GB per second now it does require the same 225 watts of board power that the a770 does the cheapest a750 I was able to find was over on Amazon for $29.99 it's the sparkle orc OC Edition I did decide to include both AMD and Nvidia in today's testing for team red I went with the AMD RX 7600 reference style card it has a 2250 MHz clock and a 2655 MHz boost clock it also has 8 GB of gddr6 memory just like the a750 it has a 128bit memory bus at 18 GBS per second which gives you an effective memory bandwidth of 288 GB per second now that's a lot lower than the a750 and a770 however it also requires less board power at only 165 WTS the cheapest RX 7600 I was able to find was the XFX Speedster Swift 210 core over on Amazon and it's $249.99 right now for Team Green I went with the assus tough gaming RTX 360 OC this graphics card runs at 1852 MHz clock speed and 1882 MHz boost it's got 12 gbes of gddr6 memory on a 192-bit memory bus running at 15 gbits per second that gives you an effective memory bandwidth of 360 gbt per second now it also requires less board power than the two Intel cards at 170 Watts so pretty much on par with the AMD card the cheapest model I was able to find was the assus Dual OC in white for $284.9 that's over on new EG now that you know what cards are in the lineup let's talk performance I ran a total of five games at two different resolutions so you've got both 1080P and 1440p you're welcome my test bench setup is an AMD ryzen 7 5800 X 3D on an MSI b550 Tomahawk motherboard it's also got 32 gigs of Corsair Vengeance Pro running at 3200 MHz cooling the CPU is deep Cool's massive assassin 4 CPU tower cooler some of you might think I should have used liquid cooling instead but it worked just fine never pass 60c the first title up was Forza Horizon 5 I ran the tests on the ultra preset which enables R Racing to high and msaa 2x I also turned off upscaling Technologies to see native performance numbers these are the results of a three run average for each at 1080p the RX 7600 takes the win with 115.5 FPS and 94.5 for the 1% lows the stack rolls down from there with the 3060 hitting 94.1 the a770 at 90 and the a750 at 86.2 the RX 7600 keeps the lead at 1440p with 95 FPS average and 79.9 1% lows Intel's cards are quite a bit behind but so is the 3060 Forza seems to favor AMD let's look at another title that's more neutral I used to run Apex Legends in all my benchmarks but I've kind of drifted away from it over the past year I decided to bring it back in my first test for 2024 so let's see what they've got I used maxed out settings cuz it's a fairly simple game to run the winning slot at 1080p is a little more crowded in Apex as the 7600 3060 and a770 all compete for first place the difference between them is running R to run variants that and you won't notice a 2fps difference at all 1440p is more the same where they all got within 3 FPS of each other right around that magic 144 FPS Mark I do want to note that even though the RX 7600 had the highest FPS numbers it also had the most stuttering and lag look at those 1% lows cyberpunk 2077 was next and I used the built-in Benchmark to keep things consistent I ran the high preset with no upscaling or rate tracing and crowd density on medium at 1080p the RX 7600 takes the win with 95.9 FPS average and 74.4 1% low the a770 can't quite make it as it sees 83.9 and 67.6 it catches up however at 1440p achieving a perfect tie with 61 FPS average and 50 for the 1% low of course fortnite has to be included in all my testing now this was using direct X12 High preset with nanite Lumin and raid tracing turned off also I used Native resolution no upscaling the RX 7600 wins at 1080p again with 117.959 the 3060 seems to be more of a direct competitor matching with 103.6 switching over to 1440p the a770 closes the Gap to within 5 FPS of the 7600 the last game up is Hogwarts Legacy and I wanted to use this title because the 8 GB vram has not shown any issues so far this was ran on high preset which enables RT to high quality at 1080p all the gpus Run the game fine but the 7600 is the worst of them this time when I switched up to 1440p that's when things got interesting at Native resolution the two 8 gig cards could barely run as most of the testing was horrible and jumpy they only managed to hit about 34 FPS with even worse 1% lows this is where the RTX 360's 12 GB G and the a770 16 GB were really able to shine they had no problems running this at 1440p Native resolution the a770 got up to 46 FPS with 23.91% lows even though it's not that magic 60fps number it still produced good gameplay I decided to enable upscaling technology to see if I can improve performance a bit this brought the 8 GB cards to a playable experience and improve the larger capacity cards to over 60 FPS the vram limitation I experienced during Hogwarts Legacy is an interesting one and something I wouldn't mind exploring later on in future content if that's something you want to see don't forget to hit subscribe down below and turn on that Bell icon so you'll be notified when that content goes live gameplay on Arc was great I had no problems with stuttering or crashing except on the a750 when it ran out of vram in Hogwarts Legacy but the a770 was the smoothest card of the whole lot well I should give credit to Nvidia because the RTX 36 6 did just as good in less demanding titles the RX 7600 may have taken the FPS win but don't count out Intel Arc it wasn't that big of a gap and the performance hiccups the 7600 experienced when it ran out of vram was kind of a big deal I saved features and software to last because it could take up a whole video of its own I'll try to keep things short and simple Intel's software has improved immensely I didn't have these cards back when they released but other reviewers stated that their software and user interface was so bad that it was totally unusable when I installed both gpus to my test bench all I had to do was Google Intel Arc drivers hit the download here button and wait for installation I had no issues with failed installs complications or overlays not allowing me to multitask with other windows it seems like Intel has fixed all the complaints they received during launch this brings me to Features Intel has really put forth their best effort when it comes to making their entry into PC gaming solid both the the a770 and a750 come with av1 video encoding which helps capture smooth streaming or video recording I tested this to capture my Hogwarts Legacy gameplay Arc can also enable R tracing in games without a huge performance hit in fact they have better RT performance than AMD if you want to boost your frame rate they also include an upscale technology called xes which is kind of like nvidia's dlss except not as good yet what what kinds of features do you look for to GPU do you like to see those rate race Reflections in games or maybe enable upscaling Technologies to achieve those ultra high frame rates maybe both well then what are my impressions of Intel's Arc GPU lineup 18 months after release I for one am impressed they've priced these cards so well they compete with amd's value and they offer build quality and features rivaling Nvidia I may not have had to deal with the headache when these came out but I I did get to see how smooth the experience was today and of course I didn't get to test every game and use case scenario for these Intel art cards but I feel like I gave it a good showing if you're looking for something for under $300 that has lots of features and you won't have to upgrade your GPU in a year or two don't sleep on Intel I'm glad I didn't and as I always say I'm Danny with Danny's Tech Channel and I'll see you in the next [Music] one two of us yeah I know

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Length: 11min 33sec (693 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 24 2024