Intel Arc A750

W1zzard · Oct 5, 2022

Intel is pricing their new Arc A750 graphics card aggressively at just $290. In our review we ran extensive tests and can confirm that it offers decent performance for 1080p and 1440p gaming. It encounters strong competition though from AMD and NVIDIA, who have several products in this price range.

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Chaitanya · Oct 5, 2022

Will have to wait for couple of months for drivers to catch up, otherwise might consider these for video decoding/encoding work.

BSim500 · Oct 5, 2022

What's with the abnormally low Borderlands 3 / Divinity Original Sin 2 (1080p) scores? Idle power seems exceptionally bad. Also, if these cards are faking DX9, could you test some DX9 games to see if there are any compatibility issues?

konga · Oct 5, 2022

The title of this review seems at odds with the content and conclusion. Sorry, but I'm just not seeing the value versus similarly priced alternatives.

r9 · Oct 5, 2022

I was expecting that the 770 will be couple percent faster than the 3060ti oh well.
Hopefully Intel continues to push and develop those drivers and architecture.

80-watt Hamster · Oct 5, 2022

BSim500 said:
What's with the abnormally low Borderlands 3 / Divinity Original Sin 2 (1080p) scores? Idle power seems exceptionally bad. Also, if these cards are faking DX9, could you test some DX9 games to see if there are any compatibility issues?

Both run in DX11, which Alchemist does not handle well.

W1zzard · Oct 5, 2022

BSim500 said:
What's with the abnormally low Borderlands 3 / Divinity Original Sin 2 (1080p) scores?

DX11 + CPU-limited seems very challening for Arc Alchemist. Just like @80-watt Hamster said

catulitechup · Oct 5, 2022

@W1zzard very interesting review maybe can make a test with DXVK (mostly used for linux users and can play many DX9-10-11 titles) and works on windows too

Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine

GitHub - doitsujin/dxvk: Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine

Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine - GitHub - doitsujin/dxvk: Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine

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Maybe can make a test on linux

Blaazen · Oct 5, 2022

So, finally, Intel did it. Not so power efficient as RX6600, drivers will need hard work, but yes, the third player is here.

noel_fs · Oct 5, 2022

i dont think so

GrimReaper85 · Oct 5, 2022

There's quite some mistakes in Conclusion:
1. Only available in China - just copy&paste from A380
2. Intel is pricing the Arc A750 at 16 GB at $290
3. RTX 2060/Ti/2070/Ti - 2060 Ti and 2070 Ti don't exist, they were Super

W1zzard · Oct 5, 2022

GrimReaper85 said:
There's quite some mistakes in Conclusion:
1. Only available in China - just copy&paste from A380
2. Intel is pricing the Arc A750 at 16 GB at $290
3. RTX 2060/Ti/2070/Ti - 2060 Ti and 2070 Ti don't exist, they were Super

Welcome to the forums! Thanks! Should all be fixed. There's only A750 8 GB (not 16 GB)

ExcuseMeWtf · Oct 5, 2022

Beta product being priced good on paper - makes kind of sense, though I'd give it some more time.

RedBear · Oct 5, 2022

Agreed with catulitechup's comment above, it would be interesting to see how it performs with DXVK, especially in titles like Borderlands 3 where performance was very poor. Also, any idea on why performance seems to scale better than other GPUs at higher resolutions? At 1440p in that title it's basically at the same level of the RTX 2060 and 3050. Is it because of the CPU bottleneck issue that you've mentioned?

Lastly I wonder if the anomalously high energy consumption on idle might get improved with some driver updates.

Tom Yum · Oct 5, 2022

RedBear said:
Also, any idea on why performance seems to scale better than other GPUs at higher resolutions? At 1440p in that title it's basically at the same level of the RTX 2060 and 3050. Is it because of the CPU bottleneck issue that you've mentioned?

I think that is easily explained when you look at the transistor count and memory bandwidth of the Arc 750/770 when compared to its midrange competitors. Arc has basically double the resources as a 6600/3060, twice the memory bandwidth and twice the transistor count. At higher resolutions, the 6600/3060 become bandwidth limited, whereas the Arc 750/770 appears to be struggle more with the drivers making efficient use of the shader resources it has which is impacted less by resolution than memory bandwidth limitations.

Intel is basically selling 6800/3080 class hardware for 6600/3060 prices because that is where it performs. The benefit is that performance scales with resolution like a 6800/3080, but obviously even with that scaling, the issue of whether the Arc 750/770 offers playable experience at higher resolutions remain.

shovenose · Oct 5, 2022

Right, so either the performance will continue to improve over time with driver updates resulting in this being a great value, or the architecture is just not efficient for gaming. Will be interesting to see.

Mistral · Oct 6, 2022

Is the "Highly Recommended" award based on the assumption that one day these cards will have decent drivers?

There's no way the current experience is recommendable to a regular end user..

W1zzard · Oct 6, 2022

Mistral said:
Is the "Highly Recommended" award based on the assumption that one day these cards will have decent drivers?

There's no way the current experience is recommendable to a regular end user..

The current experience is fine, unlike when I tested A380 ... anything in particular that you're concerned with?

shovenose · Oct 6, 2022

W1zzard said:
The current experience is fine, unlike when I tested A380 ... anything in particular that you're concerned with?

Did you have any trouble with monitor compatibility where it simply doesn’t output to the monitor? I had this problem with the a380 hence why I returned it. And gamers nexus had this problem with both the a380 and a770.

W1zzard · Oct 6, 2022

shovenose said:
Did you have any trouble with monitor compatibility where it simply doesn’t output to the monitor? I had this problem with the a380 hence why I returned it. And gamers nexus had this problem with both the a380 and a770.

Right, I vaguely remember getting this once and I reseated the card and used HDMI and it worked, also with DP after that

shovenose · Oct 6, 2022

W1zzard said:
Right, I vaguely remember getting this once and I reseated the card and used HDMI and it worked, also with DP after that

Thank you. My issue was it only worked intermittently on one monitor and not on 3 others. I think mine was just defective lol.

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