Intel ARC A770/A750 Driver Update, Intel Claims Big Performance Gains!

foreign [Music] box today we are revisiting Intel's Arc a770 with an updated Benchmark using the latest available driver and this is a test many of you have been requesting ever since Intel made some pretty big claims earlier this month about improved performance in short Intel claimed their new 4091 driver improved DirectX 9 performance on average by 43 with individual gains as high as 87 so some pretty Mega performance claims there today's video is sponsored by LG and their brand new 27-inch Ultra gear OLED gaming monitor the 27 gr95qe this display is the perfect choice for high refresh rate HDR gaming has a blazing fast 240Hz refresh which combined with Elite response times gives you super clear motion among the best we've ever tested plus you get a stunning HDR experience thanks to all leads per pixel local Demi and deep zero blacks giving you that Punchy vibrant dazzling image quality we expect from a true HDR product which this is I recommend this monitor it performed well in our review over on monitors unboxed so to learn more and upgrade yourself to an ultra gear OLED check the links in the description below there are also some more modest claims of DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 performance improvements so I think it's about time we looked into them unfortunately they're due to time I was only able to focus on the a770 but I did go back and quickly test the a750 and we'll look at that more towards the end of the video but the reason I was under the pump for this one was because I should be away enjoying some sunshine and kayak fishing for the first time in a few years taking a bit of a quick holiday but I promise a 40 plus game Benchmark with the a750 and a770 will happen in the not too distant future anyway let's just get on with it now all gpus have been tested at the official clock specification so no Factory overclocking the CPU used is the ryzen 7 5800x3d with 32 gigabytes of dual rank dual Channel ddr4 3200cl14 memory on the Asus Rog Crosshair 8 extreme motherboard in total I've tested 12 games at 1080P and 1440p so let's get into the data first up is Rainbow Six extraction and this is a title that AMD made no specific performance claims for and here we're seeing no real change in performance the results with the new driver were improved by a mere two percent and this was already quite a strong title for Intel's Arc GPU so it's probably unsurprising that we see no real change here however Intel did claim a modest performance Improvement in F1 2021 as well as the newer f122 version however here with F1 2021 we're seeing no real performance change and again this was already a very positive title for the a770 as it easily beat the 6650x10 RTX 3060 at both 1080P and 1440p Intel claimed one of their biggest DirectX 12 gains in Horizon zero Dawn and again it's not exactly clear what the exact performance claim was as the graphs weren't labeled typical marketing BS there but they did claim a performance uplift all the same sadly though in our testing there were no gains to be had performance with the 4123 driver was the same as the original 3802 driver at both 1080P and 1440p watchdog's Legion isn't a game that Intel claimed any performance gains for but given that we did test with it previously it makes sense to include it here so based on that you probably wouldn't be surprised to learn that at 1080P and 1440p the data with the latest drivers matches what we found originally another game that we tested previously is shadow of the Tomb Raider and again no performance improvements were claimed for this title the a770 was reasonably competitive with the 6650 XT and the RTX 3060 here especially at 1440p so that remains true with the latest driver Now intel did claim a small performance Improvement in Hitman 3 again not clear exactly how much of a percentage boost they were claiming but in any case we saw a mild three percent gain at 1080P and then basically nothing at 1440p interestingly we did see some strong performance gains in Far Cry 6 and this is a title that did see clean performance gains from Intel and quite interestingly the gains that Intel claimed should have been quite similar in Hitman 3 where we saw no performance gains anyway at 1080p the a770 was 10 faster with the newer driver allowing it to overtake the RTX 3060 by a seven percent margin though it did still Trail the 6650 XT by a rather substantial 17 margin then at 1440p we saw a nine percent improvement though this meant the a770 was still 11 slower than the 6650 XT Intel also lists cyberpunk 2077 as receiving a performance Improvement but sadly that wasn't seen in our testing at least not Beyond a frame so the 1080p results are again disappointing as the a770 was slower than the RTX 3060 but at 1440p it comes in strong dropping just 22 percent of the performance seen at 1080p to beat even the 6650 XT Dying Light 2 saw amongst the largest gains clanged by Intel for a DirectX 12 title though here we are using DirectX 11 as we're using the high quality preset which uses DirectX 11 by default whereas DirectX 12 is reserved for Road tracing and the game does recommend DirectX 11 when rtfx are disabled as it will result in better performance so at 1080p we did say a 4 boost though performance was much the same at 1440p Halo infinite wasn't mentioned by Intel so no performance claims for this one and as we see with our results using the latest driver it basically match what we saw with the original release driver so no performance change here the game also has a number of known graphical issues with Arc gpus and Intel is yet to address all of those now the second last game tested is Spider-Man remastered and this is a title that ran exceptionally well in our initial testing despite that Intel still claiming improved performance with the newer driver I certainly wouldn't call these games significant at just three percent but that's an improvement on an already very impressive result and we also saw a four percent boost at 1440p taking the a770 to 108 FPS making it just four percent slower than the RTX 3060 TI now the only DirectX 9 game that was tested with previously was Counter-Strike Global Offensive and the arc results were truly awful I'm very happy to report though that Intel has largely solved the performance related issues they're still not quite up to speed with AMD in Nvidia who are largely CPU Limited in this testing but we're also seeing a massive 119 performance Improvement to the average frame rate so obviously very impressive gains there from Intel we're also looking at a 120 boost to 1440p and an insane 180 Improvement to the one percent lows so that is obviously a very great result though I'm not willing to say the performance issues in CS go are completely solved as I did see quite a bit of stuttering when actually playing the game but it is worlds better than it was okay so after all of that the a770 is now nine percent faster on average in our testing which is certainly an impressive uplift but that also places at just four percent ahead of the RTX 3060 and still eight percent slower than the 6650 XT so it's great to see Intel making good gains in a relatively short period of time but at 1080p they really need to be beating the 6650 XT if they want to charge 350 U.S which they currently are and we'll look at that in a moment now 1440p things do look up for the a770 hear the newer driver again booster performance in our testing by eight percent on average and that was enough to just Edge out the 6650 XT albeit by a mere two percent margin but the a770 is now faster than the affordable Radeon GPU in our 12 game benchmark as for this new and improved performance does for the value of Intel's Arc a770 well it has certainly helped as you'd expect but ultimately it doesn't change the picture all that much at least at 1080p at 350 US the a770 is still radically more expensive than the Radeon RX 6650 XT costing almost 30 more per frame the 1440p results though are far more competitive here the a770 was just 14 more costly per frame than the 6650 XT and while the 50 discount the Radeon GPU offers is still quite substantial Intel's now in the ballpark and certainly offering worlds more value than Nvidia okay so overall we didn't see much of an improvement across the majority of the games we feature in our day one GPU reviews but those massive 120 gains in Counter-Strike Global Offensive will largely thank for a nine percent boost overall basically DirectX 9 performance has improved out of sight and that was really it in our testing that's great and all but without a price cut from 350 US the a770 is still a bit of a tough sell in my opinion but about that as I was wrapping this review up I noticed that the a750 has dropped to just 250 us now when I first reviewed the a750 it was priced at 290 us and I said for it to compete with the likes of AMD 6650xt it'd need to cost 220 U.S well we're not quite there but adjusting for the improved performance our 220 wish price could be increased to a 240 dollar wish price and that means we're now very close at 250 U.S so that being the case as I was wrapping this video up and just about to leave for my fishing trip I went back and ran the a750 through the 12-game gauntlet using the new driver and here is the updated cost per frame at 1080p the a750 just edged out the RX 6600 as the best value GPU reducing the cost per frame from the 6650 XT by five percent so that's great I'm not yet convinced it's quite enough to steer you away from the more tried and true option and the 6650 XT but Intel's commitment to improving performance and compatibility now really does have me thinking about the a750 as a viable option moreover if you're playing at 1440p the a750 does become the more obvious choice in my opinion given that it's now offering a 14 saving per frame when compared to the 6650 XT really 250 is a great price for the a750 and again if I are in the market for an entry level GPU I would be seriously considering going with Intel here another potential advantage of the a750 over the 6650 XT is Ray tracing support and this is something we get to look at in detail for a few reasons the largest of which being that we see RT support is fairly pointless on these more entry-level gpus after all the a750 averaged 81 FPS at 1440p and 105 FPS at 1080p on testing so halving those frame rates are probably worse probably isn't something most of you are interested in and in fact we have pulled that in the past and it did seem as though most of you weren't interested in RT performance at this performance tier or pretty much most performance tiers for that matter but just to make sure that nothing's changed I ran a poll on the hardware box Community tab just a week or so ago and found that at RTX 3060 levels of performance 85 percent of the 65 000 people who voted don't care about RT performance at all characterizing it as too slow and therefore you just wouldn't enable it so for now we're not going to invest the time but for a big head-to-head Benchmark Ray Tracer performance is something I'll touch on briefly in the future for Now intel does appear pretty well committed to making Arc work at least that's what we've seen to date driver support for new games has been really good so fingers crossed this level of dedication continues and that is going to do it for this video If you enjoyed it please do give it a like you can also subscribe for more content as I said hopefully in the not too distant future big 50 40 50 game benchmarks of these gpus compared to the relevant radio on a GeForce gpus will be coming up of course we have a heap of other content planned we also have float plane patreon sign up to either one of those you'll get access to some pretty cool stuff we have an exclusive Discord server for members only we can chat to Tim myself and the rest of our awesome community and we do a live stream as well for you guys at least once a month behind the 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Length: 12min 35sec (755 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 04 2023