Intel is lowering hopes for its Arc GPUs

Intel’s tempering expectations for its upcoming Arc A750 Limited Edition GPU. In a new video that’s just three minutes long, the chipmaker gives us a brief glimpse of the card’s fairly average on-paper performance.

Before we dive in, it’s important to note that the A750 is considered one of Intel’s top-of-the-line GPUs, as indicated by the “7” in front of its name. In Intel’s naming conventions the Arc 5 and Arc 3 sit below the Arc 7, which are supposed to offer mid- and entry-level performance, respectively.

During the video, Intel’s Ryan Schrout boots cyberpunk 2077 On a PC with the A750 chip, and instead of giving us a long look at gameplay, Shroud skips straight to performance. With the game set to the “High-quality” preset and 2560 x 1440 resolution, Schrout says the card gets “under 60 frames per second (FPS)” on average, which isn’t bad, but not necessarily bad. What you’d expect from a company like Intel’s foray into discrete graphics cards.

Shroud next shows off benchmark tests, revealing how well the card fares against the entry-level Nividia GeForce RTX 3060. The Intel Arc A750 performs 1.06 to 1.15 times better than the standard RTX 3060. cyberpunk 2077, F1 2021, control, frontline 3, And fortnite, But these benchmark tests come with an asterisk — Schrout explains that “Ark’s performance won’t look like it in all games,” and describes the test as “a great view of what the Ark is capable of doing with the right game competence.” and software engineering.” (Not to mention that these tests were not conducted by an independent party.)

Obviously, it’s impossible to tell how a card actually performs until we try it for ourselves, but this first look at what Intel offered isn’t exactly mind-blowing. Intel’s Arc A750 GPU is set to launch later this summer, but Intel has already released its A370M and A350M mobile GPUs in a few different notebooks, as well as the entry-level Arc A380 desktop GPU (known as is supposed to hit the global market later this year).

So far, things aren’t looking great for Intel’s new line of GPUs. The Linus Tech Tips review noted that Intel’s addition of the A370M actually made the 16-inch HP Specter x360 laptop “worse” than the previous RTX 3050 model, while the PC gaming YouTube channel Gamer Nexus did it with the A380. Inconsistent performance reported. Bugs and other glitches are inevitable in any new product, and as Linus points out in his video, users may be less inclined to buy something that requires diving into unknown territories, specifically GPUs. So readily available and around 40-series cards from Nvidia. corner.