I am having a surprisingly good experience with the Intel A750 LE

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Quiet in here. So I thought I'd share my experience with ARC. I picked it up at Newegg on the $199.99 sale.

System Specs:
Ryzen 5600 ECO with 4.65GHz boost
Deep Cool Castle 120mm AIO
2x16GB 3600 MT/s
Gigabyte B550i AORUS PRO AX (ReBar enabled)
2TB Silicon Image UD90 gen 4 nvme
EVGA SFX 650W gold full modular
CoolerMaster NR200 mini-ITX case
Intel ARC A750 LE (Latest drivers)
MSI Optix 27" 1080p 165Hz
WIn11 pro

DDU in safe mode to nuke the Nvidia drivers.shutdown, installed ARC, ran the installer which I had already downloaded. The installation process was as easy and smooth as the other vendors.
I have been using it since last Tuesday as my daily driver. Again, a smooth experience with no issues to date.

Gaming is more problematic. I am mostly testing older games like the Fallout series, Batman Arkham games, OG Crysis, older Assassins Creed. I have tested 20 games so far, and here is how it went. Most of the DX9 games required adding the DXVK files. After which all are running fine for me. Surprisingly, Arkham Knight required the DXVK DX11 64bit to run. I thought that would just fire right up.

Crysis doesn't like fullscreen or AA. Other than that, runs good.

AC: Black Flag, you can't use the Nvidia features for MSAA or AO, or you get graphical glitches. Other than that no problems.

The only game I could not get running was Delta Force Black Hawk Down. It is the only directX 8.1 game I have tested.

Star Trek Elite Force 2 is OpenGL, and it works a treat. Even with the 1080p lines added to the config file so I can play at native res, it works perfectly.

Spiderman Miles Morales is the most modern title played. I had watched a video on the A770 from Iceberg Tech. He was getting freezing issues he normally only sees on old CPUs with the game. I was able to replicate the problem by playing on high or very high presets while swinging fast and close to the street in crowded areas. On medium it doesn't happen. Even with RT on high.

Certainly the gaming experience isn't as polished as red or green, but with a little effort it's still a fun time. And it's not like the DXVK is a lot of work. A couple of minutes to download and unzip the files. A minute to drop the needed ones into a game folder. Then I can play the games like normal. It is obvious that some really old DX games like Black Hawk Down will have to wait for the project contributors or Intel to add support for them. I don't think that's a deal breaker for most gamers.

Anyways, I am pleased to be supporting player 3. I hope battle mage, or Gandalf as I dubbed it, is a bang for buck champ. Competition benefits the consumer.

 

[Hyderz]

Im glad you are finding the gpu good to use and its probably going to get better with driver updates as they patch more performance issues with dx9/10 titles
This could only mean that the next generation of intel gpu will be better optimized and have more equal footing in ray tracing and rasterization in the mid tier gpus

 

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Im glad you are finding the gpu good to use and its probably going to get better with driver updates as they patch more performance issues with dx9/10 titles
This could only mean that the next generation of intel gpu will be better optimized and have more equal footing in ray tracing and rasterization in the mid tier gpus

Yeah, I am nothing but impressed with how much progress the software team is making in such a short time. Comparing my experience to what was reported at launch, is night and day. I have been having so much fun playing games on it, I forget I am supposed to be testing them.

 

[Kikovic]

Yeah, I am nothing but impressed with how much progress the software team is making in such a short time. Comparing my experience to what was reported at launch, is night and day. I have been having so much fun playing games on it, I forget I am supposed to be testing them.

I have the same experience with an a770 in a kind of backup system that i have. Really enjoying the card.
The monitor i use is 1080p but could not be happier about the performance of the gpu.

 

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Over 3 weeks using it as a daily driver and it's been solid, with no black screens or BSODs. Here is a list of the games I've played and any pertinent comments. The goal was 1080 locked 60. I did test uncapped on my 165hz 1080 monitor with some games, but mostly this is pulling HTPC duty in the living room on a 55" 1080 TV.

AC:Black Flag. Passed. This game has issues when enabling ambient occlusion and MSAA. It's like the shadow map floats around in front of you or something. It's a weird one. I experienced this issue using AMD, it is not an ARC problem. My guess is it is due to the settings being proprietary Nvidia features. Game is fine with these features turned off.

Dirt 4 = Passed

Arkham City = Passed

Arkham Origins = Passed

Arkham Knight = PASSED - Fixed by adding 64bit DXVK d3d11 and dxgi DLLs to same folder as game .exe

Call of Duty 2 = PASSED - Fixed by adding 32bit DXVK d3d9 and dxgi DLLs to same folder as game .exe

Fallout 4 - Passed

Fallout New Vegas = PASSED - Fixed by adding 32bit DXVK d3d9 and dxgi DLLs to same folder as game .exe

Original version of Mafia= Passed

Halo 3 from the MC collections = Passed

Mad Max = Passed

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor = Passed. I played this for 3.5hrs. Killing orcs is addictive.

Days Gone - Passed

Crysis = Settings that cause Crysis crashes or frame rate issues so far -
Fullscreen
Anti Aliasing
I turned everything else to max and stable. Fullscreen is running at 24fps; didn't play long enough to see if it would crash or not. Turn on any AA and it crashes shortly. Other than that it is running fine.

Star Trek: Elite Force 2 (OpenGL) = Passed

Spiderman: Miles Morales = Passed. Freezing/pausing when swinging near ground level in crowded areas on 1080 High or very High presets. Medium runs smoothly.

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (DX8.1) - Fail. All troubleshooting steps taken, no dice.

Fallout 3- Pass. Another title that requires adding the DXVK files to the game folder where the .exe is.

Gears 5 - Pass. 1080 everything maxed locked 60.

F.E.A.R. Platinum - Passed

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Passed

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - Passed

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga - Passed

Stalker Call: of Pripyat - Passed

Assassins Creed: Odyssey - Passed, but with unacceptable performance in DX11. Vulcan performance is much better. Sometimes more than double the fps better.

Cyberpunk 2077 - Passed. XeSS looks much better than FSR in this one. The ghosting behind cars with FSR is - jumps out at you bad. Impressive RT performance for a $200 card.

Watch Dogs 2 - Calling this one a FAIL. Tough to get past initial resolution settings. DXVK triggers easy anti cheat so stuck on DX11. Where you are forced to play at reduced settings, even at 1080p, in a game from 2016.

Assassins Creed: Syndicate - Passed. Yet again, Vulcan is a must for locked 60 fps performance or better. DX11 radically underperforms to the point of unplayable.

Witcher 3 enhanced - Passed. Ray tracing and XeSS combine for a great experience.

 

[W1zzard]

+1 on that .. I just retested A770 and A750 on 25 (newer) games + 10 games RT and had a great experience

 

[ZoneDymo]

I remember Crysis being weird with fullscreen full stop, no matter what card you had, I remember it required a custom resolution profile in order for it to not mess up with that.
Not saying that is the case here, but who knows, dont know if Intel even allows custom resolutions.

 

[Solaris17]

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Would you mind taking a look at the flash thread and giving me the readout of the following command?

Guide: Flashing Intel ARC GPUs

ARC is in its infancy and I have playing with the platform since around the end of last year. I have several cards and found it curious that when I installed my older A380 the BIOS was older. After some searching I realized Intel takes a different approach to firmware updates. The updates are...

www.techpowerup.com

igsc fw hwconfig

 

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Would you mind taking a look at the flash thread and giving me the readout of the following command?

Guide: Flashing Intel ARC GPUs

ARC is in its infancy and I have playing with the platform since around the end of last year. I have several cards and found it curious that when I installed my older A380 the BIOS was older. After some searching I realized Intel takes a different approach to firmware updates. The updates are...

www.techpowerup.com

igsc fw hwconfig

Played some more games -

GTA 5 - Pass. Can't do max distance scaling or high MSAA and keep locked 1080 60. Other than that plays great. I recommend a frame cap because in the menu, trying to change settings it hits the engine's frame cap and it keeps hitching. Super annoying.

Tomb Raider 2013 - DX11 Fail. DX in these older games is largely a waste of time. Can't hold 1080 60 maxed settings. First village I made it to, it tanked to the 40s with bad pacing. 32bit DXVK Vulcan is great, no issues staying locked 60 in the same areas.

Assassin's Creed: Origins -DX fail. DXVK Pass. Same as the other AC games.

Orange Box games -
Half Life 2 - Passed
HL2 Episode 1 - Passed
HL2 Episode 2- Passed Removed the frame cap and maxed out with 8x MSAA
Portal - Passed

Gotham Knights - Passed.

 

[Macro Device]

Does it run Worms: Armageddon (the OG one)?
What about Max Payne series?
How does it fare in Postal 2?
FlatOut 2?

 

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Does it run Worms: Armageddon (the OG one)?
What about Max Payne series?
How does it fare in Postal 2?
FlatOut 2?

I don't own any of those at the moment. If I pick some of them up, I'll post the results. I definitely enjoyed Max Payne games BITD.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Halo Custom Edition 1.0.10: (DirectX 9)

This is actually a Windows problem, since a later version of Windows 10, IIRC, probably sometime after 1607, maybe after 1511? Windows will have an appcrash error on exit when in fullscreen mode.
It will be stealthly logged by later versions of Windows 10, and Windows 11 on each exit from fullscreen mode.

Other than that, it passed!

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Halo Custom Edition 1.0.10: (DirectX 9)

This is actually a Windows problem, since a later version of Windows 10, IIRC, probably sometime after 1607, maybe after 1511? Windows will have an appcrash error on exit when in fullscreen mode.
It will be stealthly logged by later versions of Windows 10, and Windows 11 on each exit from fullscreen mode.

It's not caused by Arc, either, it happens on GeForce and Radeon, TMK.

 

[Camm]

I actually think Intel's approach of using compatibility layers for older API's is a good thing, those layers can improve and adapt to changes in hardware/os/etc whilst hardware implementations will have a more difficult time, so honestly, I'm not surprised you're having a decent time with Intel after a year or so of work on their behalf. Just a pity the power/perf is so terrible on them.

 

[archie_kaos]

This Card is so good. The Drivers getting better and better. No Crashes or Problems so far. And the best thing: The best Bang for the buck at this time. Raytracing is very fast now too - which is a very nice Experience for me. I upgraded my Rig from a GTX 1070 NVIDIA-Card - the Timespy-Graphics-Score is double high as before for only 240 Euros.

 

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This Card is so good. The Drivers getting better and better. No Crashes or Problems so far. And the best thing: The best Bang for the buck at this time. Raytracing is very fast now too - which is a very nice Experience for me. I upgraded my Rig from a GTX 1070 NVIDIA-Card - the Timespy-Graphics-Score is double high as before for only 240 Euros.

ARC cards from ASRock, Sparkle, and Acer are on sale right now here in the U.S. Having a hard time not buying the SParkle Orc A750 for $199.99; it's a great looking card. Think I am going to pull the trigger on the ASRock A380 for $99.99. I always end frustrated by how I see it tested on youtube. I want to do it my way, and see for myself. I can put it in the system I am using for the A750. As I swapped that into my other NR200 ITX system with a ASRock B450 ITX and Ryzen 5700G to test it for someone on another forum. They wanted to confirm that ARC would play nice with B450. Said they couldn't find a definitive answer about it anywhere.

It edged out my 5800X3D RX6800 combo in 3DMark DX ray tracing features test. I did not see that coming.

 

[Solaris17]

They wanted to confirm that ARC would play nice with B450. Said they couldn't find a definitive answer about it anywhere.

Its funny that you say this; and that rumors even existed before launch about them only working on Intel systems. Then the rumors said the FW was only flashable on Intel systems and I laugh every time I remember because there was no evidence to support that was ever the case. I think people just wanted a reason to dislike ARC or Intel.

My test system for my flash tool is:

ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming
5800x3d

There are absolutely no issues on AMD, thats complete with secure boot, UEFI and rebar.

I swap cards, flash them, swap cards again, flash.

 

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I agree. It's has to be trolls spreading misinformation. Same guy claims he read ARC doesn't work correctly with Zen 2, based on others experiences. And that you have to use Zen 3 with it. None of it makes any sense.

So far there doesn't seem to be any impact from PCIe 3.0 either. Works a treat in this setup.

 

[Solaris17]

Same guy claims he read ARC doesn't work correctly with Zen 2

Guy is an idiot before I got my 5800x3d I ran a 2600 on the same board. Worked absolutely fine.

you should get a 380! I have two of them they take a lot of abuse

 

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Bought the ASRock A380 from Newegg. The game bundle made it irresistible; AC:Mirage and Nightingale plus a 6GB card for $99.99.

 

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About to hit the one year ownership milestone. It's been a great experience. A750LE is solid and the software is fine blueberry wine. A few sour ones in the vat along the way, like Starfield, but even those are sweet now.

I have it paired with a 5800X3D which eliminated the few games with driver overhead issues using the 5600. The ones that really benefited were the Spiderman games with ray tracing on. Gotham Knights too.

Excited for B series, or Gandalf as I call it. I'll be watching to see what the best bang for buck model is among the offerings. The new Sparkle line looks to have improved on the first blue models, so I'll give them a hard look. Acer has some good looking AMD cards now, so if they use that cooler design on Battle Mage they may get my money. I am not expecting an LE/Founder's Edition type of model this time around, but you never know.

 

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It's been rock solid for months now as my wife's daily driver. I'll be picking up a B series card in a month or 2 when stock and selection is better. Stoked that as we hoped, Battle Mage is a bang for buck champ. This is exactly what the vid card space needed.

 

[archie_kaos]

Battlemage is sold out in Germany. The Prices are rising. Intel does the right Job. Its not artificially limited told by German Press who asked some Vendors. Intel is producing a high amount and is selling them fast. Its looking good for Arc. I still love my A750... im waiting for the coming B750 or B770.