The Intel Arc owners thread

[Quartz]

Gamers Nexus report on Intel's response to their video

Interesting commentary on DX9 and DX11 developments.

And its £200, cheaper than the A750

The A750 has been cheaper. And Intel's real competitor to the RTX 3050 is the A580, not the A750. All three are overpriced IMHO.

 

[Quartz]

Battlemage will help somewhat, but even if intel manage to do the impossible and double their performance per watt (or the equivalent in die space), thats only 7800XT/4070 super performance.

Rumoured performance for the high end is a bit better than RTX 4070, and if that comes in at £400, that's £120 less than OCUK are currently charging for a 4070 or an in-stock 7800 XT. And who knows, maybe they'll improve the drivers even more and get somewhere near a 4080?

 

[humbug]

The RTX 3050 is overpriced, always has been, its a bad GPU, really bad at its price IMO.

But that video shows quite a mixed result A750 vs 3050, the A750 is on par, a little faster or much slower than the 3050.

The best out of the 3 is the RX 6600 XT, often by quite a large beefy chunk, i don't know how much that GPU is as OCUK don't stock it but the even faster 6650 XT is £230.
Really that's what the A750 is competing with and its a long way off competitive.

 

[humbug]

I just looked on the U.S retailer that Steve used for pricing on the cards he used, he picked the cheaper A750 on there at £210, fair enough, but picked one of the more expensive RX 6600 at $200, there is one at $170 and there is a very much faster RX 6650 XT for $230.

There's some cherry picking going on there to misrepresent the pricing, he could have had the AMD competitor he used for $40 cheaper than the A750 or had the very much faster card for $20 more than the A750.

 

[Quartz]

I just looked on the U.S retailer that Steve used for pricing on the cards he used, he picked the cheaper A750 on there at £210, fair enough, but picked one of the more expensive RX 6600 at $200, there is one at $170 and there is a very much faster RX 6650 XT for $230.

Pricing changes from day to day. Notice that in the comparison video I posted the RTX 3050 is marked as $219 - far cheaper than today.

 

[SuperElectric]

Rumoured performance for the high end is a bit better than RTX 4070, and if that comes in at £400, that's £120 less than OCUK are currently charging for a 4070 or an in-stock 7800 XT. And who knows, maybe they'll improve the drivers even more and get somewhere near a 4080?

Yep, if they could release today it would be incredibly exciting. December 2024/January 2025, not so much.

 

[humbug]

There is also a rumour that AMD are launching a £400 4080 late this year, like all these rumours i'll believe it when i see it.

 

[Quartz]

Mainly positive comments with a few oddities. 'Solid' is his final judgement. He makes an excellent comment about Arc's real problem being mindshare - Radeon has a bit of the same problem.

 

[Quartz]

Yep, if they could release today it would be incredibly exciting.

Paul's Hardware have just received a mystery GPU...

 

[Quartz]

Pytorch now supports Arc.

Intel Arc GPUs Now Supported In The Intel Extension For PyTorch, Boosting AI, Deep-Learning & LLM Capabilities

Arc A-Series GPUs are now supported within the Intel Extension for PyTorch (IPEX), offering faster AI capabilities in deep learning & LLMs.

wccftech.com

No, I've never heard of Pytorch before.

 

[SuperElectric]

Paul's Hardware have just received a mystery GPU...

There's no way Battlemage is being sampled to reviewers and there no leaks at all. Must be some other card?

 

[Quartz]

There's no way Battlemage is being sampled to reviewers and there no leaks at all. Must be some other card?

You're no fun!

Actually, there have been leaks about Battlemage

Your choice if you believe him.

 

[Quartz]

Good news for those playing Counterstrike 2

Re: Counterstrike 2 poor performance arc a770 16gb

Hello everyone, I have a quick update. The issue with the black screen when launching on Vulkan was reproduced and our debug team is looking into it. For the performance difference we ran benchmarks with the latest public driver 101.5194 (Deathmatch- 1440p/high settings) comparing with RTX 4060...

community.intel.com

1% behind a 4060 is good going!

 

[Quartz]

Someone has compiled a compatibility spreadsheet:

Intel ARC A770 Variants Compatibility List

ARC A770 Performance can vary,Tested / Community,Recommended GAME TITLE,COMPATIBILITY,TESTED ON DRIVER,REPORTS,Install/reinstall the lastest driver using DDU in safe mode, only if problems occur ! Dishonored 2,Okay,4.953,very high, AA can cause issues, game engine is blurry same as DH1,ReBar : O...

docs.google.com

 

[SuperElectric]

Good news for those playing Counterstrike 2

Re: Counterstrike 2 poor performance arc a770 16gb

Hello everyone, I have a quick update. The issue with the black screen when launching on Vulkan was reproduced and our debug team is looking into it. For the performance difference we ran benchmarks with the latest public driver 101.5194 (Deathmatch- 1440p/high settings) comparing with RTX 4060...

community.intel.com

1% behind a 4060 is good going!

Only 5 months after release

 

[JediFragger]

Good news for those playing Counterstrike 2

Re: Counterstrike 2 poor performance arc a770 16gb

Hello everyone, I have a quick update. The issue with the black screen when launching on Vulkan was reproduced and our debug team is looking into it. For the performance difference we ran benchmarks with the latest public driver 101.5194 (Deathmatch- 1440p/high settings) comparing with RTX 4060...

community.intel.com

1% behind a 4060 is good going!

Not bad, chip size is 188mm squared vs 406!!!!

(yes I realise it's 5nm vs 6, still not great though!).

 

[Quartz]

New drivers 31.0.101.5333 available. They're mainly aimed at laptop users but desktop users also benefit.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

I installed, but so far I've only played divinity original sin 2, which doesn't really count.

 

[Quartz]

Hardware Unboxed test the 6 GB RTX 3050, but of real interest is how well the A580 fares:

TLDW: the A580 fares rather well.

 

[Quartz]

ETA Prime tests the Arc A310 low profile

TLDW: better than an IGPU. Worth considering if you need a single-slot low profile GPU that doesn't need additional power.