Intel Previews Arc A750 Graphics Card Performance

[TheLostSwede]

Intel has decided to share some more details on its upcoming Arc A750 graphics card, the one and same that appeared briefly in a Gamer Nexus video just the other day. The exact product being previewed is the Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition graphics card, but the company didn't reveal any specifications of the card in the video it posted. What is revealed, is that the card will outperform a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 card at 1440p in the five titles that Intel provided performance indications and average frame rates for. The five games are F1 2021, Cyberpunk 2077, Control, Borderlands 3 and Fortnite, so in other words, mostly quite demanding games with F1 2021 and Fortnite being the exceptions.

The only game we get any kind of insight into the actual performance of in the video, is Cyberpunk 2077, where Ryan Shrout details the game settings and the actual frame rate. At 2560 x 1440, using high settings, the Arc A750 delivers 60.79 FPS, with a low of 50.54 FPS and a max of 77.92 FPS. Intel claims this is 1.17 times the performance of an EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 XC Gaming 12G graphics card. At least Intel didn't try to pull a fast one, as the company provided average frame rates for all the other games tested as well, not just how many times faster the Intel card was and you can see those results below. The test system consisted of an Intel Core i9-12900K fitted to an ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero board, 32 GB of 4800 MHz DDR5 memory and a Corsair MP600 Pro XT 4 TB NVMe SSD, as well as Windows 11 Pro. According to the video, the Arc graphics cards should launch "this summer" and Intel will be releasing more details between now and the launch.

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[ZoneDymo]

a bit better than a RTX3060
with drivers that still need to mature
and RTX4000 and RDNA3 around the corner....

that price better be really right....

 

[ravenhold]

What about raytracing on ?

 

[efikkan]

So performance comparable to RTX 3060 (in cherry-picked titles), or comparable to GTX 1080 Ti(2017) if I'm not mistaken.
Well done Intel, you created something to compete with Pascal.

 

[Jism]

Benchmarks that favor intel in particular. I'd prefer seeing a real review here on TPU.

 

[TheLostSwede]

What about raytracing on ?

Not today, they want to drip feed the information to try and get as much media coverage as possible until the cards maybe launches in August...

 

[ravenhold]

Not today, they want to drip feed the information to try and get as much media coverage as possible until the cards maybe launches in August...

When theysay it's better than 3060, well, with raytracing on would be great to have that. If they'll polish drivers for raytracing till launch.

 

[chstamos]

That's the first time I'll write something good about Arc, but -even at these few, select, optimised games- it's also the first time an ARC gpu doesn't look like a complete joke. Considering the driver issues and that performance is not expected to live up to this "preview" across the spectrum of games and applications, they most certainly need to price substantially lower than 3060, in order for it to be any kind of sensible purchase. As a matter of fact, it needs to be lower than RX 6600, which can be found as low as 280 dollars right now.

At about 220-230 dollars this might start to make a viable option, though. Anything higher than that, and I wouldn't give it a second look. If intel needs to sell it as a loss maker in order to gain market share, then they need to sell it as a loss maker, or else it sinks. That's a price in making people publicly beta test your products. Gain the market share, improve the drivers, live to fight a second gen.

 

[r9]

Slowly it looks like the only way they'll get the public to use them if they come in gift bags.
Anyhow allegedly per Tom Petersen they are not just already working on the the next gen but also the gen after that as so hopefully they are here to stay. Because AMD and NVIDIA if they are competing in anything is to see who can sell their stuff for more.
And I'm not saying Intel is the "savior" but doing that price fixing gonna get little more complicated with 3 players in the game.

 

[human_error]

Plenty of people would be very happy with 60+ FPS on high settings in some of the latest games so despite all the negativity if this is priced right it can be a good option for people. Not many people buy the top end halo products so going for the mid-range is fine for a first dGPU release from Intel.

We also have to keep in mind this will end up in pre-built gaming systems - Intel can now provide a CPU+MB+GPU bundle to vendors at a discount so I'm sure we'll see these popping up there - again a high FPS 1080p or 60FPS 1440p setup would be pretty good for a pre-built and will shift a lot more units compared to what a 3080 competitor would.

 

[v12dock]

The only 5 games it beat it in... Got it Intel

 

[TheLostSwede]

The only 5 games it beat it in... Got it Intel

It's the only five games the driver is working properly with...

 

[P4-630]

So performance comparable to RTX 3060 (in cherry-picked titles), or comparable to GTX 1080 Ti(2017) if I'm not mistaken.
Well done Intel, you created something to compete with Pascal.

Keep in mind the Arc A750 is not the fastest GPU intel will have.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Keep in mind the Arc A750 is not the fastest GPU intel will have.

Are we sure about that? Maybe they decided to can the A780 and wait until next gen to release something higher-end.

 

[Denver]

So performance comparable to RTX 3060 (in cherry-picked titles), or comparable to GTX 1080 Ti(2017) if I'm not mistaken.
Well done Intel, you created something to compete with Pascal.

It's a good level of performance depending on the price.

 

[P4-630]

Are we sure about that? Maybe they decided to can the A780 and wait until next gen to release something higher-end.

Google said: The lineup of Intel's Arc DIY cards includes A310, A380, A580, A750, and lastly, the A770.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Google said: The lineup of Intel's Arc DIY cards includes A310, A380, A580, A750, and lastly, the A770.

770/780, whatever, but we don't know that for sure. We don't know if there will be an A580 either.
All this is rumours and until something is announced, it can't be verified.
Yes, there have been drivers indicating these products, but it doesn't mean they're guaranteed to launch.
According to the link below, there's a 780 and 350 as well.

| VideoCardz.com

videocardz.com

 

[MentalAcetylide]

The competition vs. AMD & Nvidia will be welcomed and help with pricing a bit, however, I don't think Intel will come close enough just yet to have much of an effect. Maybe 5 or so years from now, but not in the present or near future.

 

[omerfak]

So performance comparable to RTX 3060 (in cherry-picked titles), or comparable to GTX 1080 Ti(2017) if I'm not mistaken.
Well done Intel, you created something to compete with Pascal.

I would kill for a 1080 Ti right now

 

[Deleted member 185088]

I think it will take them a couple of generations to offer something really worth it.

 

[Solaris17]

I think it will take them a couple of generations to offer something really worth it.

If the GN video was any indication Tom (The engineer) knows this and basically said as much.

 

[efikkan]

That's the first time I'll write something good about Arc, but -even at these few, select, optimised games- it's also the first time an ARC gpu doesn't look like a complete joke. Considering the driver issues and that performance is not expected to live up to this "preview" across the spectrum of games and applications, they most certainly need to price substantially lower than 3060, in order for it to be any kind of sensible purchase. As a matter of fact, it needs to be lower than RX 6600, which can be found as low as 280 dollars right now.

The games are not optimized for Intel, these are just the games which happen to perform better.

It's a good level of performance depending on the price.

Considering that Nvidia and AMD are about to release their new generations in the next few months, so a price of ~$200 would be decent if the TDP is also good?

I would kill for a 1080 Ti right now

It was surely a good card, even though some claimed Nvidia launched it to make AMD look bad.
Back when 1080 Ti was about to launch, I was planning to buy one, and since I had one GPU fail I bought a 1060 as a temporary solution. Then prices and availability went crazy, and I'm still rocking my 1060

 

[Assimilator]

Keep in mind the Arc A750 is not the fastest GPU intel will have.

Because of course their A770/A780 is going to be an RTX 3090 Ti killer LMAO.

These GPUs are trash, no two ways about it. I'm gonna enjoy laughing at the people posting "I bought an Intel GPU but it runs slow in <random game> REEEEEE". Then in a few more years, another round of pointing and laughing at the "Has Intel abandoned Arc, why are there no driver updates" posts.

 

[Bomby569]

I'm not that pessimistic as you guys, AMD took ages to get a competing gpu past the middle range. Intel done a good job at first try, now bring pricing down and improve drivers. Don't give up and leave us in the hand the other 2 greedy bastards

 

[64K]

Because of course their A770/A780 is going to be an RTX 3090 Ti killer LMAO.

These GPUs are trash, no two ways about it. I'm gonna enjoy laughing at the people posting "I bought an Intel GPU but it runs slow in <random game> REEEEEE". Then in a few more years, another round of pointing and laughing at the "Has Intel abandoned Arc, why are there no driver updates" posts.

At this point I would just like them to be competent enough to release the Arcs to the rest of the world besides China. The rumor is that the release for the USA is delayed until Fall. Not sure about the rest of the world. Not that I would buy one anyway but there does seem to be some interest in them.