The Intel Arc owners thread

Phixsator · 11 Mar 2025 at 11:51

Boomstick777 said:
Can anyone advise how to fix IDLE high power draw, noticed it's pulling a fair bit with the board and chip draw, see picture below. I've got ASPM enabled, I'm on an ASUS PRIME B760M-A WIFI.

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It's due to the vram not clocking down. Now I don't know if it is intended behaviour from Intel drivers but you could try and test it. AMD had the problem a long time ago and the culprit was high refresh rate displays and vblank if my memory serves me right. So you can try and set the monitor to 60hz and also disconnect any additional monitors there might be. If that ends up working and the memory downclocks correctly then the next step could be to mess with CRU and set a custom resultion at 1 or 2 hz below maximum supported by the monitor. No idea if it will work though but its a place to start. In case it is intended behaviour by Intel then your SOOL(!"#! Out of luck).

Boomstick777 · 11 Mar 2025 at 12:20

Phixsator said:
It's due to the vram not clocking down. Now I don't know if it is intended behaviour from Intel drivers but you could try and test it. AMD had the problem a long time ago and the culprit was high refresh rate displays and vblank if my memory serves me right. So you can try and set the monitor to 60hz and also disconnect any additional monitors there might be. If that ends up working and the memory downclocks correctly then the next step could be to mess with CRU and set a custom resultion at 1 or 2 hz below maximum supported by the monitor. No idea if it will work though but its a place to start. In case it is intended behaviour by Intel then your SOOL(!"#! Out of luck).

Thanks, I can confirm this behavior, vram just not clocking down, I've tried all kinds of settings with ASPM, Windows OS changes etc, but it seems stuck at 2375.0MHz. I'm hoping some tech wizard on here can help me fix this, running so high at IDLE is going to bug me

Boomstick777 · 11 Mar 2025 at 12:54

Huzzah! Seemed to have made progress! This time I set everything to default, ARC drivers, and reset BIOS. Then I went through each section and turned literally every ASPM setting I could find to 'L1' and the power at IDLE has dropped! I just need to narrow down which ones actually do something?!

Gibbo · 13 Mar 2025 at 10:06

Very limited stock but Intel reference B580 back in stock.

Intel ARC B580 12GB PCI-Express GDDR6 Limited Edition Graphics Card

SKU: GRA-INT-03759
EAN: 5032037280815
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Boost Clock: 2670MHz, Memory: 12GB 19000MHz GDDR6, Memory Interface: 192-Bit, Intel XMX Engines: 160, DirectX 12 Ultimate Support, OpenGL 4.6, PCI-Express 4.0, 3yr Warranty

£300 (incl. VAT)

£240 (incl. VAT)

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Intel ARC B580 12GB PCI-Express GDDR6 Limited Edition Graphics Card

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Quartz · 13 Mar 2025 at 18:57

Too late for me but I hope they sell very quickly.

Quartz · 16 Mar 2025 at 15:42

A deep dive into RT on the B580.

Raytracing on Intel’s Arc B580

Edit: The article originally said Intel’s BVH nodes were 4-wide, based on a misreading of QuadLeaf.

chipsandcheese.com

bigjonnyauk · 18 Mar 2025 at 09:14

Here one for you guys , maybe this issue has been encountered among previous pages.

i have the Asrock Steel Legend and when gaming temps are around 60-65 which im sure is fine but i wanted to adjust the fan curve in the intel graphics software to ramp them up a little. on Basic mode the zero rpm works fine and my fans stay off until needed. but the minute i change any dot on the graph ( even the last one as a test) by just 1% and then click apply the fans are always on even after a restart.

I have the Asrock b650hdvm2 mobo and have also looked into reducing the power at idle but for the life of me cant find the apsm setting or the l1 setting

fullspizz · 18 Mar 2025 at 09:43

I'm debating on whether to pull the plug on one of these to replace my EVGA 1080?
Processor will be a 5700X3D. so whilst not the best, hoping the driver overhead won't cripple it too much.

Quartz · 18 Mar 2025 at 10:03

fullspizz said:
I'm debating on whether to pull the plug on one of these to replace my EVGA 1080?

This video should help you:

TLDW: it's swings and roundabouts. The B580 can be significantly better or it can be modestly worse.

Poneros · 18 Mar 2025 at 10:17

fullspizz said:
I'm debating on whether to pull the plug on one of these to replace my EVGA 1080?
Processor will be a 5700X3D. so whilst not the best, hoping the driver overhead won't cripple it too much.

Should at least wait 2-3 weeks for 5060. It's kinda hard to recommend the B580 with all the Intel issues given its only advantage over the 4060 is basically the vram now that the 4060 can be had even cheaper than the B580.

hornetstinger · 18 Mar 2025 at 10:17

fullspizz said:
I'm debating on whether to pull the plug on one of these to replace my EVGA 1080?
Processor will be a 5700X3D. so whilst not the best, hoping the driver overhead won't cripple it too much.

B580 seems bit inconsistent and for £300 I'd expect more even results. It's a shame as it showed promise for those on 1080 and more efficient 1440p games

I did consider 580 but £300 isn't mega affordable and with 7700 I wouldn't it hurt the CPU.

fullspizz · 18 Mar 2025 at 10:32

Quartz said:
This video should help you:

TLDW: it's swings and roundabouts. The B580 can be significantly better or it can be modestly worse.

I started to watch that but WTF, he tries to be funny but isn't.
Also, he references a 1080 Ti. Mine is just a 1080 so performance on mine will be worse.

Quartz · 18 Mar 2025 at 11:46

fullspizz said:
Also, he references a 1080 Ti.

Well yes, but a 1080 Ti is only modestly better than a 1080, so the video should still be of some help.

fullspizz said:
I started to watch that but WTF, he tries to be funny but isn't.

Fortunately there are summaries if you scrub through.

Quartz · 20 Mar 2025 at 12:55

Just seen this on Reddit that will interest American readers.

And new drivers are up. Significant performance increase for Black Ops 6 on the B580.

Intel® Arc™ & Iris® Xe Graphics - Windows*

This download installs Intel® Graphics Driver 32.0.101.7026 (WHQL Certified) for Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics, Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics, Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics, and Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors with Intel® Arc™ Graphics.

www.intel.com

Intel said:
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6* (DX12)
Up to 15% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Extreme settings
Up to 12% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Extreme settings

Emlyn_Dewar · 22 Mar 2025 at 13:42

I really hope we see more games using Intel's frame gen soon. I guess it'll help now Intel have remembered that they needed to give devs the ability to...
I've been messing around with the A770 in a very small, horrible airflow case. Keeping it at 160w power profile actually managed to keep it relatively quiet, but has a little bit of performance trade-off over the 210w or higher profiles. I was using F1 24 as a way to test the noise under load. I found XeSS and Xe frame-gen in this game to be very impressive.

Was genuinely thinking about selling this system, hence all the testing, but it might just be small enough for me to keep it.

bigjonnyauk · 27 Mar 2025 at 19:09

Quartz said:
Just seen this on Reddit that will interest American readers.

And new drivers are up. Significant performance increase for Black Ops 6 on the B580.

Intel® Arc™ & Iris® Xe Graphics - Windows*

This download installs Intel® Graphics Driver 32.0.101.7026 (WHQL Certified) for Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics, Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics, Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics, and Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors with Intel® Arc™ Graphics.

www.intel.com

Can confirm this i now just set it to ultra and nothing else and am seeing around 90fps with no xess.

Must be honest ive been pretty happy with this card, i have had issues with one game which is far cry 6 , no matter what i did it was a stutter fest. i believe this is a game issue though.

I do however still have the issue whereby i cannot change the fan curve for my steel legend in the intel graphics software. at default fans act as expected by not spinning until a certain temp. The minute i alter even the dot for say 70 degrees and nothing else and restart then the fans are always spinning. As the tuning software is in beta ode i am hoping its just a bug they are working on.

Unfortunately msi afterburner does not see the b580 and allow you to alter the fan curve there

Quartz · 27 Mar 2025 at 22:41

bigjonnyauk said:
i have had issues with one game which is far cry 6 ,

Funnily enough, the Arc A770 was the one GPU that allowed me to run the original Far Cry. I must confess to not having tried it on the B580 - Sniper Elite 4 has taken over as my sniping game.

bigjonnyauk · 27 Mar 2025 at 22:45

Quartz said:
Funnily enough, the Arc A770 was the one GPU that allowed me to run the original Far Cry. I must confess to not having tried it on the B580 - Sniper Elite 4 has taken over as my sniping game.

Its just 6 that has the issue. I've come from a rubbish laptop so am playing older games that it didnt run.

Have pretty much maxed out settings on rdr2 and gears of war 5

No issues on blops or apex either

Quartz · 3 Apr 2025 at 12:58

Two of Linus's employees have been tasked with trying the B580 for a month. Initial results are impressive.

Quartz · 3 Apr 2025 at 22:28

For those who haven't viewed the video, it was recorded before the launch of the AMD 90 series and one is coming from a RTX 4090 and the other from a RTX 3090.