Can the Arc A380 beat a 10 year old flagship (no)

[almoststew1990]

I'm asking the question on all our minds: Is the 2022/3 Intel Arc A380 an upgrade than the 2013 4GB AMD Radeon R9 290X?
I got the Arc for about £150 a couple of months ago. I got the 290X for £65 second hand. This was going to go in my project PC, currently a 4c/8t 3.6GHz Sandybridge Xeon with 16GB RAM.
However the testing was done on my 5800X3D PC with Resizable BAR turned on (for both GPUs)

I tried out a couple of DX9, DX10, DX11, DX12 games, at 1440P I used FSR whenever it was available, usually in balanced mode, no RT.

I'm surprised that the 290X holds up so well to be honest, in fact the average average framerate is 25% higher and it's not as if I loaded up on the DX9 games. The A380 is a lot smaller but is just as quiet and still has/needs an 8-pin power connector so it probably isn't much more power efficient. Definitely cooler though bloody hell

I think I'll stick with the 290 in the project PC (which doesn't even have the sam bar thing)

 

[almoststew1990]

Uhm, I'm pretty sure the A380 should be way more power efficient, at least it should in games the drivers actually work properly, I suspect that's why it gets smashed in some DirectX9 games.

You're right, it has a TBP of 75W. My card has an 8 pin power connector allowing for 225W power draw. The R290X has a TDP of 290W but only has 8 + 6 pin connectors! So I had assumed the A380 was only 75W down on the 290X but for 25% less frame rate.