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The Intel Arc owners thread

TLDW: the A580 is a fine card for 1080p, but for the money get the RX 6600 instead. The card needs to be at least £50 / $50 cheaper.

Paul's TLDW: it stomps the RTX 3050 and is stomped by the RX 7600 but the RX 7600 is 25% more expensive.
Kitguru's TLDW: not much slower than the A750, stomps the RTX 3050, stomped by the RX 7600. Noisier and more power-hungry too. Note though that they were testing an overclocked card from Sparkle.
HUB's TLDW: ReBAR an issue for the likely target market. Driver quality issues - Intel being new to the game. Performance as above. Get the RX 6600 instead. Note that HUB tested without the new Starfield driver. Again, they tested Sparkle's overclocked A580.
 
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This guy really likes his A750. He particularly likes it for application acceleration - Da Vinci Resolve in his case. He's even thinking of keeping it over his RX 6950.


The only issues he found were with Halo.
 
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New drivers boost Stable Diffusion 2.7 times.

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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 […]
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Not something with which I've experimented.
 
Intel released drivers for Frontiers of Pandora but they've also been plugging away at driver improvements

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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.
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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
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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.
 
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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.
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Well yes, but it would be useful to see how it's improved there.
 
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