Intel ARC GPU discussion thread

[lightning70]

Will develop over time. A new player is a must in the market, there is almost Nvidia Monopoly right now. There must be competition. I am more hopeful for the next generation than AMD and Intel.

 

[AusWolf]

I just saw the news on this. FINALLY! I know this kind of thing takes time, but man if Intel could have just done this from the outset we would have seen a lot more interest in Arc as an enthusiast toy. I'll have to give this a go when I've got time.

My interest was there anyway, I just still can't buy one at a reasonable price.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Microcenter has Arc in stock near me, even the 16GB version. Asking $350, IIRC.

 

[Solaris17]

Microcenter has Arc in stock near me, even the 16GB version. Asking $350, IIRC.

yeah it must be bad in the UK because you can get them for MSRP in the US no problem.

 

[Assimilator]

yeah it must be bad in the UK because you can get them for MSRP in the US no problem.

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AusWolf is probably the only person in the UK who actually wants to buy one of these pieces of garbage.

 

[TearsOfTelos]

Would love to get my hands on a Gunnir one but the only place I can buy it is on Alibaba.

 

[Fouquin]

Tool doesn't seen to work for me (all it seem to do for me is setting a locked frequency to 2600gh max). And i remember Skatterbencher saying one of his videos that the tool only works within "the warranted perimeters".

Yeah looks like it doesn't overcome whatever limits Intel put in place. Which is funny because Arc Control WILL push the card to the point it crashes, and this tool seems to trigger every throttle condition all at once because simply recreating Intel's own boost state (1.17v @ 2400MHz) causes the card to drag ass at 1900MHz while pegged to the power limit. Not nearly as powerful as it looked when Skatterbencher was doing 3GHz+ on their A380.

It's possible I'm not understanding how each variable relates and that I just need to learn more about how the tool works. As it stands the power limit unlock trick is still the more powerful tweaking option at hand.

 

[TearsOfTelos]

Yeah looks like it doesn't overcome whatever limits Intel put in place. Which is funny because Arc Control WILL push the card to the point it crashes, and this tool seems to trigger every throttle condition all at once because simply recreating Intel's own boost state (1.17v @ 2400MHz) causes the card to drag ass at 1900MHz while pegged to the power limit. Not nearly as powerful as it looked when Skatterbencher was doing 3GHz+ on their A380.

It's possible I'm not understanding how each variable relates and that I just need to learn more about how the tool works. As it stands the power limit unlock trick is still the more powerful tweaking option at hand.

I have tried to combine the tool with the power unlock trick. Even with no power limit I can't seem to go over 2600mh.

The card is also pulling more voltage that I can get just using ARC control. Could be worth looking into seeing if you can use the ARC control performance boost slider with the extra voltage from the tool.

 

[P4-630]

ARC Overclock tool

Homebrew Intel Arc OC Tool Released by Legendary Overclocker

Simple and lean, but mind the bugs

www.tomshardware.com

 

[jaded]

can anyone with Valorant installed confirm if its still bugged? and how does Tarkov run if anyone plays that?
and which model do you prefer?
im reading the acer is better for reapplying paste later and in itx cases for the half blower fan.
I do like intels stock w the clean design. theyre the same price now on egg

does anyone know if an ancient i7 2600 + 970 is worth running separately for a two pc stream setup to do the encoding part? or would it be better at this point with a 5800x + a770 to do both the game and encoding.

thanks

settings- usually play low 1080 at 144hz

 

[ugijago]

does arc gpu run with older motherboard(p6t deluxe etc)? or it will be black screen?

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

ARC should run - but performance will be drastically reduced due to lack of reBAR.

For whatever reason ARC is quite dependent on reBAR.

 

[Fouquin]

does arc gpu run with older motherboard(p6t deluxe etc)? or it will be black screen?

Yep it works on many older boards but as @Count von Schwalbe said it will take a massive performance hit due to the lack of reBAR. Like basically cut in half in some games.

 

[masterdeejay]

does arc gpu run with older motherboard(p6t deluxe etc)? or it will be black screen?

Uefi (for the card bios), Pcie 3.0 ( rebar is part of the standard) and some bios support needed for rebar (like at least x79, x99) Resizable BAR on LGA 2011-3 X99
Bios support is just a bios uefi ffs driver so almost all pcie 3.0 uefi motherboard support it with some modding.

That lga1366 is older pcie 2.0 standard that dont have rebar and no way to enable it.

 

[RadeonProVega]

Has anyone tested Xemu and Xenia on one?
if so, how is the performance?

 

[ugijago]

ARC should run - but performance will be drastically reduced due to lack of reBAR.

For whatever reason ARC is quite dependent on reBAR.

Yep it works on many older boards but as @Count von Schwalbe said it will take a massive performance hit due to the lack of reBAR. Like basically cut in half in some games.

Uefi (for the card bios), Pcie 3.0 ( rebar is part of the standard) and some bios support needed for rebar (like at least x79, x99) Resizable BAR on LGA 2011-3 X99
Bios support is just a bios uefi ffs driver so almost all pcie 3.0 uefi motherboard support it with some modding.

That lga1366 is older pcie 2.0 standard that dont have rebar and no way to enable it.

so if i put it in my mobo it will black screen? not detected? or just like other 2 said ,at least can still run?
because is see some comment put in motherboard not detected but other said it can
what alternative can i buy should i go for 1660 or 6600? unfortunately this last month cheap 6600 is all sold out dunno when they restock
arc 380 here around 173 dollar
1660 around 226
6600 same around 226 but cheap one now all gone now i see only 260 ++ (T_T)

 

[masterdeejay]

If the mobo supports uefi cards (it probably does) it might work, but you get half performance without rebar.

 

[Dristun]

Has anyone tested Xemu and Xenia on one?
if so, how is the performance?

Tried Xenia and ARC is useless for it. ProjectGothamRacing4 never hits 30fps and stutters, Fable 2 crashes during the intro cutscene. Tried changing DX12 to Vulkan, disabling msaa/vsync, changing render targets, and all these different combinations are even worse than default settings. For emulation imho it's best to forget about ARC, too many issues across many different emulators that will probably take years to get fixed because both emu devs and intel have more pressing issues at hand.

 

[RadeonProVega]

Tried Xenia and ARC is useless for it. ProjectGothamRacing4 never hits 30fps and stutters, Fable 2 crashes during the intro cutscene. Tried changing DX12 to Vulkan, disabling msaa/vsync, changing render targets, and all these different combinations are even worse than default settings. For emulation imho it's best to forget about ARC, too many issues across many different emulators that will probably take years to get fixed because both emu devs and intel have more pressing issues at hand.

Thanks, haha. Guess i will pass it on for now. Honestly I'm waiting for them to release a better workstation card, the two i seen are very low in specs atm.

 

[masterdeejay]

A770 efficiency mode
source reddit: link1 link2

 

[KrazyT]

A770 efficiency mode

They don't lie !
Almost as good at 150W than 105W.
Good to see !

 

[masterdeejay]

Some older games: A770 LE 16gb stock

Crysis 1 benchmark tool crashes but the game works fine. Fullhd, all on the highest settings 16x AA.


Far Cry 2 runs fine


X3 - Terran Conflict also runs good


X3 - Terran Conflict
--------------------------
Game Version: 1.2.0.0
Operating System: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (22000.co_release.210604-1628)
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
Graphics Card Info: Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics [4095 MB] Driver: 31.00.0101.4091
CPU Info: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4215R CPU @ 3.20GHz (16 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Usable System Memory: 49152 MB
Video Settings During Benchmark:
Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 * [32], fullscreen
Using Shader Profile: 3.0
Antialias Mode: 4x
Anisotropic Mode: NONE
Graphics & Shader Settings:
Texture Quality: high
Shader Quality: high
High Quality Bumpmaps: enabled
Environment Mapping: enabled
Glow Filter: enabled
Ship Color Variations: disabled
More Dynamic Lights: disabled
Used Vertexsize: 40 bytes
Framerates
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Scene "Trade" 62.3 average fps 26.0 minimum fps 125.0 maximum fps
Scene "Fight" 141.2 average fps 54.0 minimum fps 297.0 maximum fps
Scene "Build" 190.9 average fps 116.0 minimum fps 379.0 maximum fps
Scene "Think" 89.6 average fps 49.0 minimum fps 164.0 maximum fps
Overall average framerate: 121.0 fps

 

[Dristun]

A rare day of glory for Intel GPUs!

 

[dragontamer5788]

A rare day of glory for Intel GPUs!

I mean, that's a really good result. $350 for 3080-like performance is really good value.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

A rare day of glory for Intel GPUs!

And this is why we should care about:

Intel Arc Beats NVIDIA and AMD to Hogwarts Legacy Game Ready Drivers

Intel became the first of the three discrete GPU makers to release a day-0 graphics driver for "Hogwarts Legacy." The new Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers version 101.4123 beta comes with optimization for the hotly anticipated Harry Potter universe-based RPG, as well as the survival horror...

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