Having a cursory glance at stuff like userbenchmark.com it seems like ARC is worth considering from a low-end price - performance perspective. But is there anything it is particularly bad at? I read all sorts of bad things about drivers etc but I don't know how out of date this info is.
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If you have a case with a vertically mounted GPU (e.g. Silverstone FT) and want an Arc GPU you should choose Sparkle.
Great read and great customer service. Had a similar experience with Asrock tbh when i bought one of their Z690 itx boards that was reading a wrong voltage. They were more than keen to fix it and offered a replacement board if a bios update didn't remedy it. I ended up sending the board back though for a refund and ended it there instead.
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Intel v vague with 'this year', that says Q4 to me.
In 1 laptop.
Don't have one personally but my brothers ASRock Arc A770 PG has pretty loud coil whine
The Asrock card is so hilariously overbuilt its quite funny. I had one for a brief period before switching to the BiFrost (8GB of VRAM was the only downside for the Phantom). Made the A750 LE look titchy in comparison.
No. None at all. 770 LE.
Sparkle introduces Arc A310 & A380 low-profile GPUs - VideoCardz.com
Sparkle launches first Arc GPUs in 2024 It seems like Sparkle opted for a low-key approach with this launch, keeping things on the down-low without much buzz. The latest updates on their website now reveal the presence of two Arc A3 models, both sporting a compact form factor design. Sparkle’s...
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Hardware Unboxed review the Radeon RX 7600XT and note how well the A770 fares, being a competitor card in performance to the Radeon 7600, 7600XT, and RTX 4060 in most games.
Naturally, HUB couldn't bring themselves to bring up the A770 in the comparisons, only mentioning it very briefly in the conclusion. I don't know why they hate Intel so much.
Naturally, HUB couldn't bring themselves to bring up the A770 in the comparisons, only mentioning it very briefly in the conclusion. I don't know why they hate Intel so much.
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New Intel Arc GPU driver with 30% FPS improvement for DX11 games Intel is about to release a new driver with promising improvement for DirectX11 titles. Intel has issued a short note to the press, indicating an imminent release of an updated GPU driver, potentially today. The upcoming driver...
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Can't say I'd had any issues with Palworld on the A770, but if it improves performance even more, I'll take it!
Edit: Saw a few people on Reddit complaining about this driver. People in the Arc section seem addicted to DDU... I just downloaded it from the Intel site and installed straight over the top of my existing, without clean install. Worked fine.
Palworld was already running great at 3440x1440 and I never run overlays, so no idea if performance is any better.
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Can't say I'd had any issues with Palworld on the A770, but if it improves performance even more, I'll take it!
Edit: Saw a few people on Reddit complaining about this driver. People in the Arc section seem addicted to DDU... I just downloaded it from the Intel site and installed straight over the top of my existing, without clean install. Worked fine.
Palworld was already running great at 3440x1440 and I never run overlays, so no idea if performance is any better.
Same when running any of my ARC cards I just installed directly over the top of the old driver (selecting clean install where applicable). I do the exact same with Nvidia or AMD cards as well.
The only time I use DDU is when switching between the difference vendors and that is probably not really required any more (force of habit scenario).
Will have to to get the BiFrost back into my desktop so see how the new driver performs when it is released.
