Sadly though, Intel missed that incredible window of opportunity by about a year.
Today marks the introduction of the Arc A750 and A770 graphics cards.
There are two versions of the Intel A770, the standard 8GB model and a more premium 16GB model.
Then there’s the slightly cut down A750 which will cost $290.
Now, for testing all GPUs we’ve used the official clock specifications, so no factory overclocking.
The game played well and performance was excellent.
In fact, the A770 wasn’t that much slower than theRadeon 6700 XT, very impressive.
The F1 2021 results were also good.
The Arc A770 was 15% faster than the6650 XTat 1080p and just 10% slower than the6700 XT.
It also blew theRTX 3060out of the water to come in just 9% slower than the3060 Ti.
The Arc A750 also did well, just edging out the 6650 XT and RTX 3060.
The Arc A750 was also strong here, beating theRTX 3060by a 9% margin.
Another very solid result here for Intel.
Unfortunately things go a bit skeewiff for the Arc GPUs in Horizon Zero Dawn.
Given what we’d seen so far, that’s a disappointing result.
Meanwhile, the Arc A750 is only delivering 6600-like performance.
This is not a good title for Arc.
Far Cry 6is another poor title for Intel Arc, depending on what you compare them to.
The A750 also managed to match the Radeon 6650 XT and crushed the GeForce RTX 3060.
Then at 1440p the Arc GPUs look great and the A770 isn’t that far off theRTX 3070.
Shortly after that benchmark session, Intel addressed the performance issues with a new driver.
Amazing performance here, we just wish we saw more of the same.
That’s a problem for Intel because performance is nowhere with the A770 and A750.
Yes, these results are accurate and even at 1440p it’s a mess.
Cooling Performance
The Intel reference cards worked well in terms of cooling and temperatures.
The Arc A750 ran at a core temperature of 67C with the memory at 70C.
Both are very acceptable, especially given the 1500 RPM fan speed, which resulted in near-silent operation.
The GPU clocked at 2.4 GHz and the memory ran at the advertised 16 Gbps.
So AMD has made life difficult here for Intel.
It’s just not going to happen with Alchemist and realistically that was never going to be possible.
We have the same opinion of the6650 XTandRTX 3060.
In this price range you’re better off buying theRadeon 6650 XT.
