• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

The Intel Arc owners thread

New drivers boost Stable Diffusion 2.7 times.

videocardz.com

Intel Arc A770 GPU gets 2.7x boost for Stable Diffusion with the latest Olive-optimized drivers - VideoCardz.com

Intel ARC AI image generation gains performance thanks to optimized drivers Intel sees an opportunity in promoting Arc A7 GPUs for generative AI. The Arc Alchemist GPU’s performance may not be up to par with the RTX 40 and RX 7000 GPUs in gaming, there’s still a lot of work to be done in that […]
videocardz.com videocardz.com

Not something with which I've experimented.
 
Last few drivers have included an HDMI firmware. Not exactly sure what it's doing...
On the 4972 drivers now, and haven't noticed any issues. Everything has been running alright for me (that I've tried) lately.
Hope they keep up the pace. There's been a few driver releases in the last month.
 
Tried one out, worked well just abit glitchy with the drivers and support, went back to nvidia pretty fast though!
 
Intel released drivers for Frontiers of Pandora but they've also been plugging away at driver improvements

wccftech.com

Intel Arc GPUs Get Up To 34% Performance Boost In Latest Drivers, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Support

Intel has released its new Arc BETA GPU driver which continues the tradition of bringing huge performance uplifts & adding new game support.
wccftech.com wccftech.com

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (DX12) Up to 8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Battlefield V (DX11) Up to 23% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Crossout (DX11) Up to 5% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings
Dishonored 2 (DX11) Up to 16% average FPS uplift at 4K with Ultra settings
Dying Light 2 Stay Human (DX11) Up to 31% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings
Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition (DX11) Up to 12% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Highest settings
For Honor (DX11) Up to 14% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Extreme settings
Phasmophobia (DX11) Up to 5% average FPS uplift at 1440p with High settings
Train Sim World 3 (DX11) Up to 34% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Click to expand...
 
Yes. Battlemage is rumoured to give performance similar to the RTX 4070 Ti or 4080. I think back to AMD's Ryzen where the third generation completely stomped the competition.
 
Hardware Unboxed say that XeSS is now better than FSR on AMD GPUs. It lacks frame generation, however, and they didn't test it on Arc GPUs.

 
Quartz said:
Hardware Unboxed say that XeSS is now better than FSR on AMD GPUs. It lacks frame generation, however, and they didn't test it on Arc GPUs.

Click to expand...
He didn't test it on Arc cards because the version of the software that has been upgraded works across all brands, if you own an Arc GPU they automatically run better as the software (XMX) can use the AI hardware on Arc to render a better image. I know he used DLSS in the video but that's just there for comparison and more people have access to that then hardware accelerated XESS.
 
Freddie1980 said:
He didn't test it on Arc cards because the version of the software that has been upgraded works across all brands, if you own an Arc GPU they automatically run better as the software (XMX) can use the AI hardware on Arc to render a better image.
Click to expand...

Well yes, but it would be useful to see how it's improved there.
 
Arc is getting praise as a card for Photoshop creators here


It doesn't do so well in the rest of the tests.
 
Positive review of the A580 for 1080p Ultra and 1440p (High & Very High) gaming by ETA Prime


He also includes testing with XeSS and gets over 80 fps in CP77 at 1440p.
 
I've been impressed with Intel's commitment to it's products and the improvements they have delivered. I can honestly say I'm looking forward to Battlemage and provided it turns out we'll I'll seriously consider it (looking to upgrade from a 6600 XT).
 
The attitude towards Arc has shifted a lot, so I do worry that it'll come out and just be the same* as AMD's/Nvidia's offerings, with worse drivers.

*Everything labelled a tier higher and priced more to boot.
 
Last edited:
At some point i really want to dabble into intel GPU's. The used market for the A770 is really enticing, seen them as cheap as 250 on market place.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom