The Intel Arc owners thread

[Freddie1980]

Disappointing presentation from Intel, an hour long and mostly about A.I nonsense despite this taking place at a consumer electronics event. Talk about a failure to read the room.

 

[bigjonnyauk]

yeah i was dissapointed , no doubt there is many people like me who own a b580 and will maybe want to upgrade again and will now shift to nvidea or amd. it would have been nice to just hear yup the xxx is in development and we will be releasing x card and x card.

 

[FARGO]

Hi all,

I was wondering which of the Intel cards could be a suitable replacement for my Nvidia 1060 (6GB)?

This is the rest of my system (I think):

Corsair 270R Windowed Mid Case
AMD Ryzen7 3700X +Wraith Prism
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz
Sabrent M.2 NVMe SSD 1TB
650W Corsair TX650M ATX PSU

My monitor is an AOC 1080, 144mhz panel.

It's not the most wild system, but I'm hoping a modest upgrade will keep it going for a while longer and let me enjoy my back catalogue on higher settings.

Mindful that I may need to upgrade the PSU and that there may be some compatibility issues with older games?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Quartz]

Get the best you can afford. A B580 or 16 GB RX 9060 will both be massive upgrades. The B580 will give you about double the performance of the 1060.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Feel like you wouldn’t need to upgrade the PSU. The B580 would be a nice choice, for the right price.
As Quartz says, if you’ve got the extra for the 9060 (not the 8GB model), then it would be even better.

 

[momo56]

Hi all,

I was wondering which of the Intel cards could be a suitable replacement for my Nvidia 1060 (6GB)?

This is the rest of my system (I think):

Corsair 270R Windowed Mid Case
AMD Ryzen7 3700X +Wraith Prism
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz
Sabrent M.2 NVMe SSD 1TB
650W Corsair TX650M ATX PSU

My monitor is an AOC 1080, 144mhz panel.

It's not the most wild system, but I'm hoping a modest upgrade will keep it going for a while longer and let me enjoy my back catalogue on higher settings.

Mindful that I may need to upgrade the PSU and that there may be some compatibility issues with older games?

Thanks in advance!

If you plan to keep the card for a while you will most likely need to rely on upscaling at some point. XESS on Intel is terrible in comparison to DLSS & FSR.

I've had the B580 for a while on another machine, haven't had driver issues yet on newer games but not sure how it handles older games.
The card was more attractive when it could be had closer to £200 and/or came with a free game. At £260 I wouldn't go for it.

 

[FARGO]

Thanks all for the replies! I'll keep pondering for a little while longer.

 

[Quartz]

If you plan to keep the card for a while you will most likely need to rely on upscaling at some point. XESS on Intel is terrible in comparison to DLSS & FSR.

I'm not sure that's correct. XeSS has historically been not as good as DLSS but - on Intel hardware - better than FSR which has been better than XeSS on non-Intel hardware. All technologies have advanced considerably over the past couple of years as have ways of forcing support on non-compliant games.

 

[hornetstinger]

I'm not sure that's correct. XeSS has historically been not as good as DLSS but - on Intel hardware - better than FSR which has been better than XeSS on non-Intel hardware. All technologies have advanced considerably over the past couple of years as have ways of forcing support on non-compliant games.

Xess in stalker is way better than fsr on my 9070xt

Anti aliasing feature ature

 

[Glanza]

 

[Quartz]

TLDW the pair are well-matched.