The Intel Arc owners thread

Quartz · 23 Oct 2022 at 19:23

I have an Intel Arc A770 and I believe @oweneades has one too. Anyone else?

To get things rolling here are some results (copied from this thread):

Running the benchmark in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands now at 4k, medium settings and getting an average of 57 fps. Occasional judder. The judder is removed by turning down the texture streaming from High to Medium. This raises the average fps to 61. I'm using a SSD and not a NVME drive which may account for the streaming issue. I get 110+ fps solid on my 4090 on Badass settings - everything cranked

Here are my settings:

Horizon Zero Dawn gets over 50 fps at Medium Settings with motion blur turned off.

The Forza Horizon 4 benchmark gives over 60 fps at Medium and High settings at 4k.

Superposition managed about 70fps at 4k.

Quartz · 23 Oct 2022 at 20:59

The eagle eyed will note that I have stuck to DX12 games.

Quartz · 24 Oct 2022 at 00:23

oweneades said:
@Quartz - Just to avoid confusion I have a A750 and not a A770.

Remind me, which CPU do you have? If you have one that is much better than my 8700 then it would be interesting to see how much difference the CPU makes.

Quartz · 24 Oct 2022 at 09:15

willhub said:
Based on Forza Horizon 4 I'd put this at GTX 1080 level but I suppose FH4 is DX11?

Forza Horizon 4 is DX12

Quartz · 24 Oct 2022 at 11:08

Jay85 said:
How you guys finding it so far?

I mean for the price it feels like stonking good value and the results from what you've posted so far seem good.

I think it's about £100-£150 too expensive as a gaming card: the A770 needs to be about £50 cheaper than its competitor, the RX 6600XT (maybe RX 6650 XT). That said, fine wine will almost certainly apply if Intel commit the resources, especially with DX11 and - particularly - DX9 games. DX9 games currently go through a translation layer which kills performance; make a native DX9 layer and performance there will increase massively. Hell, I used to play Freespace 2 until recently (recently I just watch videos) and that's DirectX 6 or 7! We'll see.

I've only given mine very limited usage - Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, mainly. I have also only used DX12 games and benchmarks.

My initial view, based on a whole 1.5 day's usage, is that Intel have made a fine start and if they stay the course their next cards will compete with Nvidia and AMD at the top level.

I will also point out that Intel have used the same 3/5/7 naming scheme as their CPUs which means that there may be an Arc A9xx in reserve.

Quartz · 24 Oct 2022 at 14:37

Chuk_Chuk said:
Did you just want to test it out,

Pretty much this. Plus tinkering. Plus I will soon need a modern GPU for a spare PC - I have a 4090 in my main PC but that's got an 11400 in it and I am considering upgrading to a 13600 or 13700.

Quartz · 1 Nov 2022 at 15:46

I've installed the latest beta driver and have noticed a slight degradation in performance in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - a bit of stuttering - but that may have been TTW autoadjusting settings until I set them back.

Quartz · 3 Nov 2022 at 12:13

Hardware Unboxed like Intel's XeSS on Arc GPUs.

Quartz · 7 Nov 2022 at 15:53

Vipernet said:
Ended up picking up an A750 from OcUK for my work machine. Good upgrade from a gtx 970, and my exports in after effects and lightroom are noticeably quicker.

It's not my focus but apparently the A750 and 770 are beasts for productivity.

Quartz · 7 Nov 2022 at 15:54

random_matt said:
My A770 worked fine in Timespy, weird. Has the worst coil whine in history though, really not joking.

No coil whine here. Perhaps, being old, I just cannot hear the frequencies?

Quartz · 7 Nov 2022 at 16:51

random_matt said:
May have to cap FPS at a 100 or something.

Ah, I've never got fps so high on my Arc - I game at 4k.

Quartz · 8 Nov 2022 at 14:42

Axeboy said:
Performance not great as expected, but to be fair my motherboard doesnt have the resizable bar setting. Ill try a BIOS update later.

To enable Rebar on my motherrboard I had to first enable above-4g support.

Quartz · 15 Nov 2022 at 17:29

I'm not sure what has happened: my i7-8700 system will now not POST with REBAR enabled. It's a Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming with the F16B BIOS that enables REBAR support.

Quartz · 23 Nov 2022 at 23:33

I got to the bottom of it: CSM needs to be disabled in the BIOS.

Quartz · 25 Nov 2022 at 00:26

I've had an evening of fun playing Far Cry (the original). 4k, max settings, DX9. The translation layer seems to be working well.

Then I tried to benchmark Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Just got a black screen. The benchmark was running and I could hear the sounds and the framerate was shown but the screen was black. The game menus worked fine.

Quartz · 2 Dec 2022 at 10:35

Intel have dropped prices on their A750 cards.

Quartz · 7 Dec 2022 at 22:15

And a whole 1 point gain in Port Royal.

Quartz · 8 Dec 2022 at 10:18

Grim5 said:
Port Royal is DirectX12, not 9, so what are you trying to even say

Yes, but drivers often improve performance in more than one area.

Quartz · 8 Dec 2022 at 10:38

The DX9 improvements were loudly touted but there were other fixes too.

Quartz · 29 Dec 2022 at 14:19

This video is from the American PCWorld, reporting massive gains in DX9 and much improved stability.