Sparkle Arc A750 Titan OC

[W1zzard]

Almost one year after our original launch review we revisit the Intel Arc A750. Sparkle's A750 Titan OC is a factory-overclocked custom design with a large triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solution that lower temperatures considerably. Manual overclocking potential is also slightly better than the Intel reference card.

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[the54thvoid]

I admit to a cursory glance over the review, but I always check relative perf and power. And by the Silver Surfer's shiny shins, this takes almost as much power as a 4070ti in gaming. Ouch. And ouch again.

 

[KrazyT]

I admit to a cursory glance over the review, but I always check relative perf and power. And by the Silver Surfer's shiny shins, this takes almost as much power as a 4070ti in gaming. Ouch. And ouch again.

Ha ha, I do the same (looking the noise output too) and the power drain is anormaly high, no ? Even in V-Sync 60 Hz ...
Strange, normal behaviour, bug ?

 

[ZoneDymo]

Im really looking forward to battlemage

 

[Iain Saturn]

That power consumption is horrible.

Own it for 3 or 4 years and it becomes a very expensive card.

 

[Pumper]

Idle space heater.

 

[Aretak]

For all the totally organic hype online about how much Intel's drivers have improved, not much seems to have changed performance-wise. Comparing this review to the A750 review from a year ago, at 1440p the 3060 Ti was 25% faster back then and 26% faster here. The test suite of games has changed a bit, but average performance is the same (or slightly worse).

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Man I feel like Sparkle has been out of the gpu game for a while was the GTX 600 series their last discrete gpu can't remember it's been so long.

 

[Denver]

Titan? Well, Its a little bit pompous if you look at the performance...

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Titan? Well, Its a little bit pompous if you look at the performance...

As legendary as the intel software team has apparently been it still performs worse than a 6600XT while using more power than a 2080ti.... For sure that kinda sucks.

 

[docnorth]

For all the totally organic hype online about how much Intel's drivers have improved, not much seems to have changed performance-wise. Comparing this review to the A750 review from a year ago, at 1440p the 3060 Ti was 25% faster back then and 26% faster here. The test suite of games has changed a bit, but average performance is the same (or slightly worse).

Actually they did improve against competing GPUs. Last year A750 was e.g. on par with 6600 at 1080p and below 6600 xt at 1440p. In seems 3060 ti (and 3060) perform slightly better with this suite of games. But the power consumption is tragic, especially compared with the current gens.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Actually they did improve against competing GPUs. Last year A750 was e.g. on par with 6600 at 1080p and below 6600 xt at 1440p. In seems 3060 ti (and 3060) perform slightly better with this suite of games. But the power consumption is tragic, especially compared with the current gens.

Hopefully Battlemage is their sandybridge moment but not holding my breath.

 

[damric]

Man I feel like Sparkle has been out of the gpu game for a while was the GTX 600 series their last discrete gpu can't remember it's been so long.

Is this the same Sparkle of the FSP Group aka Fortron Sparkle Power Tek?

 

[Nostras]

What especially kills it is the price. I understand Intel is new to the game but the comparison with AMD is especially ugly.
Even more so as features is like Nvidia >> AMD >>>>> Intel.
This thing needed to be like 15% cheaper than the 6600XT to be a worthwhile option (with some very gnarly caveats).

This card is also quite the dud, what do you mean this card is louder? How?
Looking at the temperature difference if we would do a cooler comparison it would've been slightly better than stock, which is a fail considering the size difference.
Noticeably the consumption is higher but the performance has barely moved. ???

Honestly W1zzard was really nice in his conclusion, I would've called it a pointless product.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Is this the same Sparkle of the FSP Group aka Fortron Sparkle Power Tek?

I'm not sure I just remember seeing Sparkle cards around the GTX 500 series.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

I admit to a cursory glance over the review, but I always check relative perf and power. And by the Silver Surfer's shiny shins, this takes almost as much power as a 4070ti in gaming. Ouch. And ouch again.

Power consumption is definitely Alchemist's biggest Achilles' heel. If Battlemage can bring the perf/W in check and make up some ground in relative performance, we'll have a genuine contender on our hands.

The two things keeping my A750 on the shelf: It can't run Last Epoch (no idea why) nor fold (no hardware FP64 ).

EDIT: spelling

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

INTEL has everything they need to build their own gaming computers using their own hardware.

 

[mechtech]

How is the performance in DX11? I recall ARC having issues with Borderlands 3 when it was first released.

(sorry not sure which titles if any were tested or are DX11)

 

[80-watt Hamster]

How is the performance in DX11? I recall ARC having issues with Borderlands 3 when it was first released.

(sorry not sure which titles if any were tested or are DX11)

I didn't try very many titles, but the few that would run in either DX11 or 12 seemed to perform similarly in either mode.

 

[Solaris17]

I would love a rebench of a 770

 

[mechtech]

I didn't try very many titles, but the few that would run in either DX11 or 12 seemed to perform similarly in either mode.

ya no clue, maybe it was just a BL3 thing??

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[ZoneDymo]

Hopefully Battlemage is their sandybridge moment but not holding my breath.

Oh man I can see it now, we were hoping it would be their Sandy bridge moment but it turned out.... it was their Pentium D moment..

 

[R0H1T]

Hopefully Battlemage is their sandybridge moment but not holding my breath.

You mean Conroe?

 

[oxrufiioxo]

You mean Conroe?

That would be better but doubtful.

 

[Space Lynx]

damn, I didn't realize rtx 2080 was still hanging in there. talk about value if you bought that card at msrp on launch day and still use it. lmao