Intel has lifted the review embargo for its new Arc A750 and A770 graphics cards, and the first third-party gaming benchmarks have appeared online. And, according to the benchmarks, the high-end model is faster than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060.
Going into more details, PCWorld reports that the Intel Arc A770 is faster than the RTX 3060 in most scenarios. One exception, though, is Cyberpunk 2077 in which the RTX 3060 is faster than the A770.
PCGamesHardware has reported that the Intel Arc A770 outperforms the RTX 3060 in Ray Tracing benchmarks. However, in DX11 games, Intel’s high-end GPU falls behind NVIDIA’s counterpart.
Tomshardware shows similar results. While the Arc A770 outperforms the RTX 3060 in multiple games, there are still some that run faster on NVIDIA’s hardware.
Lastly, HardwareUnboxed reports that its 12 games, the Intel Arc A770 is slower than the RTX3060 at 1080p. However, at 1440p, the A770 appears to be faster than the NVIDIA GPU.
All in all, these benchmarks fall in line with everything we’ve heard so far about these new GPUs. While they appear to be doing great in Ray Tracing benchmarks, they are lagging behind in DX11 games. Additionally, there are also some DX12 games that can run slower.
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Looks like a solid mid range value card for those that want to run modern games on <4k screens.
It’s a good card with recent DX12 titles on a Windows 10th gen+ or Ryzen 5000+ system.
But:
*it needs ReBAR or performance tanks, that means you need a recent 10th gen+ or Ryzen 5000+ system. (in theory some 9th gen and 3000 series can support ReBAR with BIOS updates depending on the motherboard manufacturer, but it’s pretty messy)
*it performs very poorly in DX9.0 titles because it has no native DX9.0 support and uses DX12 translation
*Linux support is non-existent, it only supports an older kernel. This is really a GPU specifically for Windows users.
Not too shabby, I expected worse results.
Really? Remember this car was supposed to compete with the RTX 3070 and not the 3060… I bet Intel are losing a tonn on this PoS. One thing that makes PC Gaming PC Gaming is the fact that you can go back and play games from any year you want. But with this cards absence of true DX9 or lower support it proves that it is not a “value buy” at all.
Stupid. How many titles are DX9 that are modern and still playable? Not even emulators use it. Its pretty much gone.
Ok mid-range cards for current-gen gaming…good start for Intel. Hopefully next iteration is better…