Wednesday, June 22nd 2022
Intel Arc A380 Desktop GPU Does Worse in Actual Gaming than Synthetic Benchmarks
Intel's Arc A380 desktop graphics card is generally available in China, and real-world gaming benchmarks of the cards by independent media paint a vastly different picture than what we've been led on by synthetic benchmarks. The entry-mainstream graphics card, being sold under the equivalent of $160 in China, is shown beating the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and RX 6400 in 3DMark Port Royal and Time Spy benchmarks by a significant margin. The gaming results see it lose to even the RX 6400 in each of the six games tested by the source.
The tests in the graph below are in the order: League of Legends, PUBG, GTA V, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2. We see that in the first three tests that are based on DirectX 11, the A380 is 22 to 26 percent slower than an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, and Radeon RX 6400. The gap narrows in DirectX 12 titles SoTR and Forza 5, where it's within 10% slower than the two cards. The card's best showing, is in the Vulkan-powered RDR 2, where it's 7% slower than the GTX 1650, and 9% behind the RX 6400. The RX 6500 XT would perform in a different league. With these numbers, and given that GPU prices are cooling down in the wake of the cryptocalypse 2022, we're not entirely sure what Intel is trying to sell at $160.
Sources:
Shenmedounengce (Bilibili), VideoCardz
The tests in the graph below are in the order: League of Legends, PUBG, GTA V, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2. We see that in the first three tests that are based on DirectX 11, the A380 is 22 to 26 percent slower than an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, and Radeon RX 6400. The gap narrows in DirectX 12 titles SoTR and Forza 5, where it's within 10% slower than the two cards. The card's best showing, is in the Vulkan-powered RDR 2, where it's 7% slower than the GTX 1650, and 9% behind the RX 6400. The RX 6500 XT would perform in a different league. With these numbers, and given that GPU prices are cooling down in the wake of the cryptocalypse 2022, we're not entirely sure what Intel is trying to sell at $160.
190 Comments on Intel Arc A380 Desktop GPU Does Worse in Actual Gaming than Synthetic Benchmarks
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that is the reason for the difference between real world and syntethic benchmarks. I've said this would happen, AMD still struggles to get decent drivers let alone Intel as a newcomer.
This is a great step up from an Intel IGP! Yeah I'm trying to be an optimist here, I know.Yeah and Intel certainly didn't have time to get a similar job done, like they managed to do for synthetics? They've delayed how many years now? And if they need that long, what does that say about their efforts going forward? Intel Fine Wine? We know that even for AMD that one didn't really make them money.
And let's not forget we're also just looking at one model in the stack here. If this persists throughout, we should start to wonder if their effort is even a real effort. If this really is the best they could do, Raja really did a Raja after all and Intel is left picking up the pieces. Its not unthinkable that Intel already intervened by postponing so often, because its a total waste of silicon to get higher stack pieces going with this performance per square mm. The launch in China is already speaking volumes. This is not how you want to position and launch premium stuff.
This makes the RX6500 look like screamingly-fast bargain.
Hopefully the higher performance Arc's are just that.
Still, I believe the A380 will sell in some markets. A card that can do 1080p60 in multiplayer is going to be hugely popular with MMORPG gamers who don't care for extreme fps. No wonder Intel decided to launch this in Asia.
This company is FAR from new to GPU. The reality is they have been 'working on' their graphics solution for decades now, and they always did the least necessary to keep their CPUs in the market. That principle is hurting them now, when they have to show their money's worth.
I mean you can flood the chain with these shitty Arcs but that won't be doing you any good. The main difference for Intel is therefore not just the fact its a discrete product, but the fact its not automagically bundled with a CPU so it has to count for something. Its for that exact reason they start on mobile: customers don't buy their product, they buy a laptop.
For a giant like Intel there aren't any excuses here. They're blundering ahead; still no chiplet CPU. Still no competitive dGPU stack. Still securing stuff for a future we're about to get, but not now, tomorrow! The only optimism I can find with Intel is the fact their big.little idea is actually working out for them, in a limited way. But even with that 'design win' they're still trailing competition on CPU, and the competition can easily incorporate it within its own design win, while Intel can't return the favor just yet.
A review would be nice. One that looks at die size and such, to put things in the proper perspective.
I mean there: Intel Arc A380 Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database