Holy fucking shit.
That is fucking absymal. It's barely faster than the soon-to-be-2-generations-old bottom-of-the-barrel MX 450 (which also has only half the VRAM) and the driver situation is, as expected, a joke.
But more than that, the frametimes... oh my god, those frametimes. Overwatch (bottom left and bottom middle) is reading 66 average FPS yet the frametimes are all over the place. That's not the fluid playable experience that you need in a MOBA, that's an unplayable stuttery mess.
It's quite clear that Intel's graphics division has been lying to their execs about what Arc can and can't do and how far along it is, except this test launch in South Korea has made it abundantly clear to the execs how much of a clusterfuck Arc really is, with the result that they've given the graphics team three months' grace to fix their shit. Except that you can't fix fundamental problems like this in three months.
This is going to be i740 all over again, and a lot of former Intel employees are going to be out of a job in June. Honestly the execs need to burn down that entire graphics division and rebuild it from scratch, because it's become quite obvious that it's fundamentally rotten to the core in terms of how it's (mis)managed, and that continuing to throw money at the graphics division isn't working and won't work as long as the wrong people are in charge.
I was expecting Arc to be bad; I was not expecting it to be a disaster of this magnitude. But I guess this is what happens when you have the kind of broken corporate culture that allows something like the 10nm debacle to happen.
