Intel's Arc graphics cards have quietly become excellent | Digital Trends
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Intel's Arc A770 and A750 were decent, if imperfect, GPUs at launch, but they've massively improved since then.

"Intel’s Arc A770 and A750 were decent at launch, but over the past few months, they’ve started to look like some of the best graphics cards you can buy if you’re on a budget. Disappointing generational improvements from AMD and Nvidia, combined with high prices, have made it hard to find a decent GPU around $200 to $300 — and Intel’s GPUs have silently filled that gap.

They don’t deliver flagship performance, and in some cases, they’re just straight-up worse than the competition at the same price. But Intel has clearly been improving the Arc A770 and A750, and although small driver improvements don’t always make a splash, they’re starting to add up."

  • Riley@social.audiovalentine.com
    16·
    2 years ago

    @nanoUFO Honestly, I am considering picking one up for Starfield, depending on how they perform there. I’m sure their Linux support isn’t incredible, but Nvidia also has a lot of issues on Linux and I’ve been running my 1060 for years now.

    • blackluster117@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      51·
      2 years ago

      Have you considered upgrading to an eBay 1080ti? Still a bulletproof card depending on your application, unless you’re trying to get that sweet sweet AV1 encoding.

      • Widget@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        I don’t think realtime AV1 encoding is really going to be necessary for quite awhile tbh. A Ryzen i3 should be able to hit around 10fps on software AV1 encoders and get like 5x the quality. Otherwise x264 on medium is blazing fast and way better than what hardware h.265 will get you.

  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    I really want an energy efficient variant next time around. I currently have a 1050Ti and when i upgrade i sort of want something that’s relatively better but with less wattage if possible.

  • Disaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    OneAPI also looks quite juicy… from someone currently suffering under ROCm and in refusal to give the green goblin any business.

    • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      If you can bear the terrible drivers, consider a used nvidia card. They can be decent deals for gaming as well.

        • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          Crashes, broken adaptive sync, general display problems and, most importantly, stutter. I’m running a version from about a year ago on my 1070 Ti because every time I try to update, some game starts to stutter and I get to use DDU and try multiple versions until I find one that doesn’t have that problem.

          About 2-3 weeks ago, an update also worsened LLM performance by a lot on 30 and 40 series cards. There were a lot of reports on Reddit, not sure if they fixed it yet.

          My default advice for any issue on r/techsupport that could be nvidia driver related has been to DDU and install a version from 3-6 months ago and that has worked shockingly well.

          That reminds me, have the r/techsupport mods migrated to lemmy yet? Their explanation of the whole reddit issue was great, so I don’t think they’ll want to stay on there.

          Anyways, back to the topic. Since OP also mentioned ROCm, I’m assuming he uses Linux for that. The nvidia drivers on linux are pretty much unusable because of all the glitches and instabilities they cause. Nvidia is a giant meme in the linux community because of this.

  • Dorbiman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’ve got a Vega 64 in my HTPC, and it can run Diablo 4 okay at 4k, but would like to upgrade. It’s hard to find a comparison, but does anyone know how an Arc A750/770 compares to a Vega 64?

  • poejreed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    My main concern is if they will keep up the support, I don’t want to go buy something that looses driver support in a year or two. I feel like I have seen too much of that from various companies, though i can’t think of too many examples from intel other than Optane.

        • mantaba@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          17·
          2 years ago

          Sounds unfair to criticize an article from 2021 for not being up to date with the ever changing metrics of Userbenchmark.

          The point stands. Userbenchmark has announced and made changes to their own metric calculations because Ryzen Cpus were getting better scores than intel. It has a very clear anti-AMD stance that is clear on the written reviews and linked videos like the one in your screenshot.

          Just from this comparison, I have no clue how Userbenchmark achieved the 8% given the values they’re posting below. 8% is still also reasonably below what other reviewers posted at the time. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-5600-xt-pulse/27.html https://www.techspot.com/review/1974-amd-radeon-rx-5600-xt/

          This just to say that they are pretty clearly biased and do not shy away from altering their metrics to favour one product over the other.

            • mantaba@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              16·
              2 years ago

              You attacked the credibility of the article just for having some out of date information. Just because something they reference is out of date, does not mean the article is less relevant. It’s still things that happened and they should weight on how you view Userbenchmark as a source of information.

              I am replying to your userbenchmark defense. Of course the articles I posted have nothing to do with the 3060ti, they were meant to source my claim that even the 8% on your posted screenshot doesn’t seem like an accurate evaluation when comparing these 2 GPUs

  • kn100@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    It was extremely close between the 6700xt and the A770 for me when I was picking my GPU for my virtualized windows gaming PC. The only reason I went with the 6700xt was because I knew it’d work. I think if Intel sticks this out and actually releases some new cards, they could easily become a decent competitor to AMD and Nvidia for cards the majority of people actually buy. I know in myself part of the reason I didn’t pick Intel this time around was fear that they’d just give up and leave me with an abandoned card.