**A Critical Review of NVIDIA's Ampere Architecture: The Arc GPU**

In this article, we will delve into the world of graphics processing units (GPUs) and examine one of the most highly anticipated architectures to hit the market: NVIDIA's Ampere. Specifically, we will be reviewing the Arc GPU, a mid-range offering that promises to deliver impressive performance at an affordable price. As enthusiasts, it's essential to separate facts from fiction, and in this article, we'll do just that.

**The Performance Landscape**

According to NVIDIA, the Arc GPU is capable of delivering outstanding performance, with some benchmarks suggesting it outperforms its predecessor by a staggering 120%. For example, in F1 at 1080p, the Arc GPU takes the lead over the 3050, while at 4K, it edges out the 6600 XT. However, we must take these results with a grain of salt, as they are based on specific benchmarks and may not reflect real-world performance. Furthermore, NVIDIA's claims are undercut by its own data, which shows that the Arc GPU is only marginally better than the 750 in certain scenarios.

**The User Experience: A Mixed Bag**

While the Arc GPU boasts impressive raw performance, it falls short in other areas. The user experience is marred by driver issues, with some users reporting frustration and difficulty troubleshooting problems. This is a critical concern for enthusiasts who value stability and consistency above all else. In this regard, NVIDIA's Arc GPU does not shine, particularly when compared to its predecessors.

**Positioning and Value**

In terms of pricing, the Arc GPU seems to be positioned as a mid-range offering, with some benchmarks suggesting it offers a 120% performance boost over the 750. However, we must consider the total cost of ownership (TCO), including factors such as driver updates and support. In this regard, NVIDIA's Arc GPU appears to offer a more attractive value proposition than its predecessor.

**The Role of Intel**

Intel's entry into the mid-range market has been a game-changer for enthusiasts, offering a more competitive alternative to traditional GPU manufacturers like NVIDIA and AMD. While the Arc GPU is not without its flaws, it represents an exciting development in the market, one that will likely push both NVIDIA and AMD to innovate and improve their offerings.

**A Word of Caution**

For the average user, we cannot wholeheartedly recommend the Arc GPU at present due to its reliability issues and poor driver experience. While enthusiasts may be more forgiving of these shortcomings, others may find themselves frustrated with the product's performance and usability. Ultimately, it is up to Intel to earn back our trust through continued improvements in driver quality and stability.

**General Advice for Enthusiasts**

If you're happy with your current computer setup and don't feel an immediate need to upgrade, we recommend holding off on purchasing the Arc GPU. The market is constantly evolving, and we may see significant updates or new developments in the near future that would make this product more appealing. Furthermore, buying into a mid-range offering solely to support NVIDIA's R&D efforts may not be the best use of your hard-earned cash.

**A Final Word**

In conclusion, while the Arc GPU represents an exciting development in the market, it is essential to approach its release with caution. We recommend taking a wait-and-see approach, allowing for further updates and improvements before making a purchasing decision. As always, our goal is to provide you with accurate information and help you make informed decisions about your hardware purchases.

**A Message from Steve**

I'd like to take a moment to address the elephant in the room: it's not your responsibility as a consumer to prop up NVIDIA's R&D efforts by buying their products. While we appreciate the company's investment in research and development, we believe that Intel's entry into the mid-range market has already disrupted the status quo.

**A Final Thought**

As enthusiasts, we're always on the lookout for ways to improve our gaming experiences. With the Arc GPU, NVIDIA promises a more competitive offering at an affordable price. While its performance may not be perfect, it represents an exciting development in the market that will likely push both NVIDIA and AMD to innovate and improve their offerings.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enIntel's Arc a750 might give the company a fighting chance or at least the beginnings of one in the graphics Market the a770 it just couldn't overcome the driver issues or counterbalance them sufficiently given the price it had but the a750 is generally within six to eight percent of an a770 and it's priced at 290 dollars as opposed to 350 for the 16 gigabyte 770. so already the value looks much better against Intel's own higher end card this isn't new though we've seen this in the past like with the RX 470 versus the RX 480 from AMD for example and so today we're looking at the 750 which is poised for a better fight at 290 dollars it still has all the same driver issues as the 770 of course but they might be a little bit easier to look past depending on what type of user you are before that this video is brought to you by be quiet and there's silent wins for fans the silent wins four vans Market themselves as being useful on radiators Tower coolers and cases alike the fans have a six-pole motor and use a fluid Dynamic bearing which helps with the noise profile and with longevity the fans use anti-vibration mounts for reduced noise transfer to the case and have a rated lifespan of 300 000 hours learn more at the link in the description below so for the driver discussion and what these cards are we've already talked about all that we'll link both of those videos below but the drivers in the 770 review it's all the same problems with the 750 we're not going to go over the whole thing again the biggest problem that Intel has right now is these cards are still lacking some very basic features and the reason they're lacking features because even within the same team Intel is scattered and not really focusing on the right thing they're focused on stuffing all this bloated into their drivers rather than trying to get the basics working like being able to control the fans for example or being able to use the user interface without becoming infuriated but they'll hopefully get there and we're still excited about the fact that now when we go through GPU benchmarking we've got three different brand names that that show up on a chart the first time we typed in Intel at the front of a video card to go into a GPU Benchmark chart was actually a pretty exciting time so hopefully Intel can pull through but the drivers will leave the discussion to the Past videos they're still not there that said with the right value combination it might start to make sense for a user who I really just wants to buy it almost as like a toy like something to mess around with uh that can hopefully handle the games you play reasonably well it's useful for things like certain coding aspects as well we're not looking at that stuff today but from a gaming perspective uh perhaps in the Enthusiast tanker Market there's still space for this even though it doesn't quite fit the mainstream because it would be too frustrating to use and we just can't recommend it there but get into this thing so for the differences the a750 runs 28 XE cores as opposed to the a770 which is at 32. so the 750 is at most of a 770 in terms of what the GPU contains for Shader cores it's at 4096 Honda 770 and it's at 35.84 on the 750. memory has us at 8 gigabytes here which is plenty for this class of card and it's a 256-bit boss on both the 770 and the 750 also the 750 is still pcie gen 4x16 so you've got all your land and it's also a 225 watt TDP just like the 770. for a quick reference we showed this in the last review as well we have a price table we just looked up some cards we took three of the cheapest ones averaged some really simple stuff we didn't do anything Advanced or special here and did that before our review so we kind of frame what competes with what when going into the 750 and 770s okay enough of all that uh this one is genuinely much more interesting from like a benchmarking and game standpoint than the 770 because that value is so much stronger so let's get straight into it and start with some benchmarks well it's got thermals power uh the fan behavior and gaming here's the thermal chart for the a770 and the a750 this time and we're going to repopulate it with the a770 First with that one we observed the 7 72 Degree Target temperature for the GPU with the memory running about 80 degrees thermals ramped to a steady state temperature at about 250 seconds so relatively slow due to the rapid fan ramp here Intel could burn some more time on fan increase in RPM to try and reduce how audible the uptick in speed is and this comes down to the fan curve that set in V bios alongside the temperature Target memory thermals ran at about 78 degrees which is completely reasonable for modern gtr6 memory packages so no problems there the cooler at least appears to be adequate as for how the fan responds to these conditions it ramps to about 1600 RPM to hold the target temperature of 70 degrees just like the a770 except the fan can spin about 100 to 200 RPM slower while holding the same temperature we already tested noise levels in the a770 review so you can check that for more detail it's the same set of fans so the noise is the same power testing is up now and this one the Intel r a750 pulled 234 Watts when under a full load that has it alongside the RX 6800 so the a750 is far less power efficient here for what you're getting and it's also about the same as the 3070. once again Intel has a ways to go for power efficiency even on tsmc's node the rx6600 is another example of this at 137 Watts the 6600 didn't regularly outperform the a750 in benchmarking but it didn't enough cases to embarrass it at that power difference we'll start the gaming benchmarks with Total War Warhammer 3 at 1080p with a custom set of high graphic settings where our standard deviation for average FPS is only 0.3 FPS this is an extremely precise test in our suite the rk750 tested at 83 FPS average beaten by the a770 by about 8 percent at 90 FPS average so that 7 or so FPS that is what costs you the extra 50 or 60 bucks like 20 more expensive over to get to the a770 and that makes the a750 look good value-wise especially considering intel only sent out the 16 gigabyte 770s which are more expensive moving to comparisons versus Nvidia the a750 outperforms the RTX 3050 by 33 and the 3050 cost four percent more than the 750. it's clear why Intel chose to make comparisons to Nvidia when boasting about price to Performance because that's where it makes Arc look the best forgetting about AMD entirely does Intel some favors here the 750 performed 14 better than the old RTX 2060 which is actually still available for about 248 dollars new making the a750 17 more expensive for that 14 gain the 2060 still somehow remains relevant as even a new purchase in 2022 compared to the RX 6600 XT at 323 bucks they sometimes the leads by 3.6 percent and it leads the 248.6600 60 by 23 so in this game the a750 looks good for Value moving to 1440p the Intel a750 came up has 57 FPS average just behind the a770 which scored about eight percent higher the a750 outdid the RTX 3050 by a large 41 margin clearly establishing itself has a better value than nvidia's cheapest RTX card as for the RX 6600 Intel's a750 runs a 39 higher average FPS while costing 40 to 50 dollars more additionally the a750 beat the RTX 2060 by 20 and the RX 6600 XT by 16 the Intel a750 pulls ahead and 1440p proportional to its 1080p Rank and that is due to its advantages and higher resolutions AMD as a reminder has sort of the opposite it has an advantage at 1080p so that's why these stack UPS really widen the gap between these two Brands as resolution grows next up is Rainbow Six Siege at 1080p where the Intel Alchemist GPU is set at the bottom of the chart even below the old RX 580 and GTX 1070 it's just embarrassing we confirmed these numbers with Intel and we also ran the test multiple times the arc cards would do better with Vulcan but suffer with dx11 in some games and this is one of them the a750s poor performance here is really brought to light by the RTX 3050 which is 97 ahead in average FPS the a750 was just leading the 3050 in the last test so to swing this hard of a loss is impressive and it speaks to the issues with a new vendor where it's just not that predictable the RTX 2060 leads the a750 by 122 percent with the 6600 XT leading by a comically wide gap of 186 percent Advantage so at this point it's just an Intel Arc problem the a750 at 120 FPS is led by the a770 by only five percent but everything else the Gap is much wider than it should be here is the frame time chart as a reminder lower better but more consistent is best the problem is Apparent at first glance here from frames 0 to 100 the frame times are between 14 and 16 milliseconds for Intel and then they immediately drop down to about eight milliseconds slowly they climb again and then sharply drop again we see another huge increase in frame times from frame 1950 to 2050 and again near the end of the chart now oddly Visa actually still consistent in the sense that any cluster of frames is pretty close together and that's good there are only occasional massive changes but one of those every now and then we change scenes or transition in an environment that's okay the RX 580 though gives us the contrast where it maintains a low frame timeline across the entirety of the test both cards are fairly consistent in terms of the every few seconds they're clustered close to each other but the 580 is consistent throughout the entirety of The Benchmark Intel Arc has issues with just certain scenes threatless tasks even with Intel's 1440p and 4K advantages it can't overcome the basic problem of just not running the X11 well in this game the a750 ends up at 99 FPS average at 1440 which sounds fine except the 580 has the same frame rate and significantly better lows so for this one Intel has managed to make something that performs the same as a 200 to 250 card from 2017 which itself is a refresh of a card from 2016. we might as well look at 4K before moving away from this game but for now we can Mark Rainbow Six as functionally broken on Arc at 4K the 750 ran at 66.6 FPS average the number of the Beast except the Beast is actually Intel's drivers the 66.6 FPS result had about the same as the RX 6600 and that amount of sixes is just dangerous for YouTube's Auto captioning and might get us demonetized so we're gonna move on F1 2022 is one of the easiest Graphics loads we test but it still manages to be GPU Bound in most scenarios it's also running the X12 so we can give Arc a safe haven from the scars left on it by Rainbow Six the a750 ran at 100 FPS average leading the 300 RTX 3050 by about eight percent it's not a huge lead but under normal circumstances that'd be enough to consider the 290 a750 instead unfortunately for Intel there are wider issues that require a much bigger advantage to overcome the performance and consistency games a game for some other options the RTX 2060 leads the a750 marginally but not noticeably and the a770 does about the same with only a 6 FPS jump the RX 6600 would be the next major step up it's about 20 FPS more or so and the pricing has Arc cost in forty dollars more so it's looking good for the 66. at 1440p scaling shifts the a750 ahead of the 2060 now leading by a slight but measurable six percent the lead over the 3050 gross to 19 and that's up from eight percent at 1080p it's a big jump starting to become a noticeable Advantage for Intel and those aren't bad here either it's managing to maintain frame time consistency while also pulling ahead and performance Advantage Let's See How Far That that scaling will carry the card at 4K the a750 now pulls ahead of the RTX 3050 by 32 percent so it's gone from 8 to 19 to 32 percent that's some wild scaling and not something we've traditionally seen we know Nvidia did better towards the 4K side and AMD did better at 1080p but we've never seen the differences jump This Much from one resolution to the next even the a770 broke rank here it pulled ahead by 17 versus the a750 which is uncharacteristic this illustrates to us that the hardware differences in the a770 are becoming more relevant to its hierarchical rank even against a card with the same architecture when the load is sufficient at 4K but as for the a750 the card remains mostly playable you'd just be best off dropping the settings or resolution to get a solid 60 FPS Final Fantasy 14 is up now tested using dx11 and running on maximum settings dx11 is one of the weaker cases for Arc as we've seen but it does surprisingly well on Final Fantasy and that scales rapidly as the rest resolution increases the a750 ran at 164 FPS average here which had it functionally the same as the a770s 173 FPS average the 770 only has a lead of 5.4 percent which again isn't worth the 21 price increase so the a770 almost really doesn't need to exist for this initial launch it would just be better for Intel's reputation but they needed multiple products so compared to the rx6600 the a750 leads it by about five percent with a slight reduction in lead from the RTX 3060 while being significantly cheaper the RX 6600xde holds an 11 lead here 1440p gets more interesting where we previously saw an advantage of about five percent over the RX 6600 the a750 now leads by a massive 28 percent Intel scaling is coming into play the car jumps ahead of the 6600 XT as well Landing only behind the RTX 3070 the RX 6700 T and things above that as for the a770 that's almost linear in scaling predictably because it's the same architecture and it lands again at about five percent ahead at 4K the a750 ran at 52 FPS average keeping about the same distance between it and the a770 from previous tests the card is playable whereas the rx6600 has dropped into territory where you'd be better off reducing the resolution the lead of the a750 over the 6600 is now 42 percent so it climbed from five percent to 28 to 42 percent AMD is trending down which is known with its architecture Intel's trending up and the two of those combined in very interesting ways for the competition between them if the cards could play at 8K we might see this continue to ridiculous levels shout out of the Tomb Raider brings us back to dx12 at 1080p high the first thing we noticed was that the a750 had lower one percent and 0.1 percent lows than we'd expect for the average but they're not low enough to a signal bad frame time spikes or stuttering it's more of a footnote the a770 manages to hold a seven percent lead over the 750 making the former again seem unworthy especially considering cards like the 6600 can lead either the 6600s 126 FPS average result has a 16 ahead of the a750 a stark difference from Final Fantasy and the 6600 XT holds a 35 lead over the a750 we noticed that the lows recovered in 1440p testing these results were repeatable between multiple test passes in both resolutions so to us this means that the GPU might be shifting its bottleneck more to Intel strong points like memory performance the a750 is about tied with the rx6600 here with a measurable lead developing as compared to the RTX 2060 or RTX 3050 strange Brigade is back this one isn't played by many people at this point but it's one of the best optimized games we've tested and it has Vulcan which is the real reason we're showing it this gives a better idea for API scaling at 1080p for Intel house weakest situation the a750 manages 176 FPS average that has the a770 back to its eight percent lead from earlier and the a750 basically leads everything else not counting 30 70s and up so it establishes a 23 advantage over the RTX 3060 or a massive 62 advantage over the RX 6600 finally for 1440p the a750 leads the 3060 by 21 and the rx6600 is led by 65 percent not much different than before Intel just needs more games like this so wrapping up then it's first of all it's been a hell of a two weeks here at GN uh we're all pretty tired because we had the four CPUs plus we re-benchmarks all the other CPUs because we built new benches and test weeds then we re-benchmarked all of the gpus all this stuff has happened within two weeks the it's literally thousands of test passes at this point within two weeks from the team here so first of all for those of you on my team who do bother to watch the videos after we push them out the door thank you for getting us through the last few weeks uh now for the rest of you who are trying to figure out if you want to buy this card here's the quick recap the a770 it's about six to eight percent better than the 750 on average that difference is functionally meaningless it's negligible you're talking about a difference of sixty dollars in actual money means a lot more to people than a couple frames most the time and that's what we said about the 470 the 4A the 575 the 595.80 this is a an age to hold tale of company launches two gpus and one of them is just slightly better than the other one where it doesn't really make sense to buy the higher end one but they're probably just trying to there's some marketing strategy there with trying to force an upsell in certain segments so uh that's the good news is that it's most of a 770. now there's also staying on the upside for a moment here if you look at games where there's a positive light for Arc where it's doing well which again it's completely chaotic it's not consistent where it does well and where it doesn't for the average user you will not be able to predict where it will do well we can kind of predict it at this point but it's mostly down to apis so the positive side though total Warhammer 3 has the 750 at 1080p at 33 better than the RTX 3050 and the 3050 is a little bit more money at least at the time we were writing this review so that's a good thing for the 750 the 750 was also 14 better than an RTX 2060 again at 1080p now at 1440ps we've been saying for since the A380 review it starts to do a lot better and really pull ahead as you increase that resolution and so for 1440 the 750 out does the 3050 by 41 that is a massive increase over even just 1080. and it out does the 6600 non-xt by 39 percent that's in Total War again at 1440. so that's looking good a Rainbow Six looks really bad for the 750. so that's sort of the downswing of this Vulcan uh has some just general game issues right now and then Dia and that's not Intel that's Rainbow Six developers and then dx11 is bad for until it's a bloodbath so in that one the uh 2060 out did the 750 by 120 percent so useless in this game with this API for the 750. uh F1 1080p it was eight percent better than a 3050 a final fantasy it was five percent better than a 6600 a 6600 XT let it buy 11 1080p in Final Fantasy so you know overall this one is positioned better the fan could probably use a little more clearance this one's position this was not disassembled by the way the card is positioned better than the last one so uh purely from performance if you only look at this in charts and you ignore the entirety of the software experience and the stability and consistency in how the product works then it starts to look actually defensible as something to purchase so that's good for Intel that's where they need to be they need to be in that the camp of like yeah I guess I can deal with that for a little bit and hope that they keep pushing driver updates but for the average user we just we still can't recommend Arc right now because it's it's going to be frustrating for you and we don't want people to go out there and buy stuff where if you're buying only on charts it looks doable and then you're just upset when you get home and it's not working in a way that's easy to troubleshoot so that's the angle to look at if you're an Enthusiast that doesn't scare you great consider it a couple things here so uh first of all if you're happy with your computer today then just general reminder don't upgrade if you you either upgrade because you feel like you just want a fun project to do maybe you want something to distract you whatever that's great reason to upgrade but if you're happy with the performance right now and you don't feel like an immediate needs upgrade go ahead and hang on to what you have see what rolls out in the next few months and uh you know you stretch your dollar a lot farther that way it's also just less waste in general so that's a good thing we like to remind people that because it's easy to get so caught up in upgrading Cycles now uh ultimately remember also it is not the consumer's responsibility to prop up a hundred plus billion dollar Company by buying their 300 video cards thanks Steve so if you genuinely need a video card right now and you need something about this performance and you're aware of the downsides and you can deal with them then at least in terms of pure numbers it's competitive but you shouldn't be buying this only because you want to basically fund Intel's Kickstarter it owns Fabs it is one of the wealthiest companies in the world in history it's pretty high up there too uh you shouldn't be buying these things purely to support them it is not your responsibility to pay for Intel's r d which is what this is this is an r d project but they had to kick it out there into the wild because otherwise they just can't get enough Mass exposure to get all of those bug reports and issues back to iterate fast enough that's why I had to go this way so it's up to Intel to earn your money is what we're saying and uh it's not up to you to to just buy it just because it's new and that goes for any of these video card companies but with what we have today at least on the positive side this one is far stronger than the 770 was at the price point it is a much stronger value proposition so they're in a better place than where they were with the 770. the build quality is still really disappointing uh for the card and you can watch her tear down on that and the drivers will keep following up as they iterate and let you know when it gets better and at what speed but that's it for this one it's at least a little more positive than the last two videos on Arc and hopefully Intel can continue this trend because it's getting really interesting where it's like the best thing that's happened to AMD is Intel entering this Market because now AMD and Intel a much similar market share than Say in video which is like way out there they can start competing with each other in ways that should push each other forward maybe they can start catching up down video we have other features we want to look at we look at xcss and at RTX or RT and all that stuff that'll be future pieces and we're too slammed right now everyone here is exhausted thanks for watching subscribe for more go to stor.gamersaccess.net to support our unending work on the benchmarking or patreon.com Gamers and access if you want to give us a few bucks thanks for watching we'll see you all next timeIntel's Arc a750 might give the company a fighting chance or at least the beginnings of one in the graphics Market the a770 it just couldn't overcome the driver issues or counterbalance them sufficiently given the price it had but the a750 is generally within six to eight percent of an a770 and it's priced at 290 dollars as opposed to 350 for the 16 gigabyte 770. so already the value looks much better against Intel's own higher end card this isn't new though we've seen this in the past like with the RX 470 versus the RX 480 from AMD for example and so today we're looking at the 750 which is poised for a better fight at 290 dollars it still has all the same driver issues as the 770 of course but they might be a little bit easier to look past depending on what type of user you are before that this video is brought to you by be quiet and there's silent wins for fans the silent wins four vans Market themselves as being useful on radiators Tower coolers and cases alike the fans have a six-pole motor and use a fluid Dynamic bearing which helps with the noise profile and with longevity the fans use anti-vibration mounts for reduced noise transfer to the case and have a rated lifespan of 300 000 hours learn more at the link in the description below so for the driver discussion and what these cards are we've already talked about all that we'll link both of those videos below but the drivers in the 770 review it's all the same problems with the 750 we're not going to go over the whole thing again the biggest problem that Intel has right now is these cards are still lacking some very basic features and the reason they're lacking features because even within the same team Intel is scattered and not really focusing on the right thing they're focused on stuffing all this bloated into their drivers rather than trying to get the basics working like being able to control the fans for example or being able to use the user interface without becoming infuriated but they'll hopefully get there and we're still excited about the fact that now when we go through GPU benchmarking we've got three different brand names that that show up on a chart the first time we typed in Intel at the front of a video card to go into a GPU Benchmark chart was actually a pretty exciting time so hopefully Intel can pull through but the drivers will leave the discussion to the Past videos they're still not there that said with the right value combination it might start to make sense for a user who I really just wants to buy it almost as like a toy like something to mess around with uh that can hopefully handle the games you play reasonably well it's useful for things like certain coding aspects as well we're not looking at that stuff today but from a gaming perspective uh perhaps in the Enthusiast tanker Market there's still space for this even though it doesn't quite fit the mainstream because it would be too frustrating to use and we just can't recommend it there but get into this thing so for the differences the a750 runs 28 XE cores as opposed to the a770 which is at 32. so the 750 is at most of a 770 in terms of what the GPU contains for Shader cores it's at 4096 Honda 770 and it's at 35.84 on the 750. memory has us at 8 gigabytes here which is plenty for this class of card and it's a 256-bit boss on both the 770 and the 750 also the 750 is still pcie gen 4x16 so you've got all your land and it's also a 225 watt TDP just like the 770. for a quick reference we showed this in the last review as well we have a price table we just looked up some cards we took three of the cheapest ones averaged some really simple stuff we didn't do anything Advanced or special here and did that before our review so we kind of frame what competes with what when going into the 750 and 770s okay enough of all that uh this one is genuinely much more interesting from like a benchmarking and game standpoint than the 770 because that value is so much stronger so let's get straight into it and start with some benchmarks well it's got thermals power uh the fan behavior and gaming here's the thermal chart for the a770 and the a750 this time and we're going to repopulate it with the a770 First with that one we observed the 7 72 Degree Target temperature for the GPU with the memory running about 80 degrees thermals ramped to a steady state temperature at about 250 seconds so relatively slow due to the rapid fan ramp here Intel could burn some more time on fan increase in RPM to try and reduce how audible the uptick in speed is and this comes down to the fan curve that set in V bios alongside the temperature Target memory thermals ran at about 78 degrees which is completely reasonable for modern gtr6 memory packages so no problems there the cooler at least appears to be adequate as for how the fan responds to these conditions it ramps to about 1600 RPM to hold the target temperature of 70 degrees just like the a770 except the fan can spin about 100 to 200 RPM slower while holding the same temperature we already tested noise levels in the a770 review so you can check that for more detail it's the same set of fans so the noise is the same power testing is up now and this one the Intel r a750 pulled 234 Watts when under a full load that has it alongside the RX 6800 so the a750 is far less power efficient here for what you're getting and it's also about the same as the 3070. once again Intel has a ways to go for power efficiency even on tsmc's node the rx6600 is another example of this at 137 Watts the 6600 didn't regularly outperform the a750 in benchmarking but it didn't enough cases to embarrass it at that power difference we'll start the gaming benchmarks with Total War Warhammer 3 at 1080p with a custom set of high graphic settings where our standard deviation for average FPS is only 0.3 FPS this is an extremely precise test in our suite the rk750 tested at 83 FPS average beaten by the a770 by about 8 percent at 90 FPS average so that 7 or so FPS that is what costs you the extra 50 or 60 bucks like 20 more expensive over to get to the a770 and that makes the a750 look good value-wise especially considering intel only sent out the 16 gigabyte 770s which are more expensive moving to comparisons versus Nvidia the a750 outperforms the RTX 3050 by 33 and the 3050 cost four percent more than the 750. it's clear why Intel chose to make comparisons to Nvidia when boasting about price to Performance because that's where it makes Arc look the best forgetting about AMD entirely does Intel some favors here the 750 performed 14 better than the old RTX 2060 which is actually still available for about 248 dollars new making the a750 17 more expensive for that 14 gain the 2060 still somehow remains relevant as even a new purchase in 2022 compared to the RX 6600 XT at 323 bucks they sometimes the leads by 3.6 percent and it leads the 248.6600 60 by 23 so in this game the a750 looks good for Value moving to 1440p the Intel a750 came up has 57 FPS average just behind the a770 which scored about eight percent higher the a750 outdid the RTX 3050 by a large 41 margin clearly establishing itself has a better value than nvidia's cheapest RTX card as for the RX 6600 Intel's a750 runs a 39 higher average FPS while costing 40 to 50 dollars more additionally the a750 beat the RTX 2060 by 20 and the RX 6600 XT by 16 the Intel a750 pulls ahead and 1440p proportional to its 1080p Rank and that is due to its advantages and higher resolutions AMD as a reminder has sort of the opposite it has an advantage at 1080p so that's why these stack UPS really widen the gap between these two Brands as resolution grows next up is Rainbow Six Siege at 1080p where the Intel Alchemist GPU is set at the bottom of the chart even below the old RX 580 and GTX 1070 it's just embarrassing we confirmed these numbers with Intel and we also ran the test multiple times the arc cards would do better with Vulcan but suffer with dx11 in some games and this is one of them the a750s poor performance here is really brought to light by the RTX 3050 which is 97 ahead in average FPS the a750 was just leading the 3050 in the last test so to swing this hard of a loss is impressive and it speaks to the issues with a new vendor where it's just not that predictable the RTX 2060 leads the a750 by 122 percent with the 6600 XT leading by a comically wide gap of 186 percent Advantage so at this point it's just an Intel Arc problem the a750 at 120 FPS is led by the a770 by only five percent but everything else the Gap is much wider than it should be here is the frame time chart as a reminder lower better but more consistent is best the problem is Apparent at first glance here from frames 0 to 100 the frame times are between 14 and 16 milliseconds for Intel and then they immediately drop down to about eight milliseconds slowly they climb again and then sharply drop again we see another huge increase in frame times from frame 1950 to 2050 and again near the end of the chart now oddly Visa actually still consistent in the sense that any cluster of frames is pretty close together and that's good there are only occasional massive changes but one of those every now and then we change scenes or transition in an environment that's okay the RX 580 though gives us the contrast where it maintains a low frame timeline across the entirety of the test both cards are fairly consistent in terms of the every few seconds they're clustered close to each other but the 580 is consistent throughout the entirety of The Benchmark Intel Arc has issues with just certain scenes threatless tasks even with Intel's 1440p and 4K advantages it can't overcome the basic problem of just not running the X11 well in this game the a750 ends up at 99 FPS average at 1440 which sounds fine except the 580 has the same frame rate and significantly better lows so for this one Intel has managed to make something that performs the same as a 200 to 250 card from 2017 which itself is a refresh of a card from 2016. we might as well look at 4K before moving away from this game but for now we can Mark Rainbow Six as functionally broken on Arc at 4K the 750 ran at 66.6 FPS average the number of the Beast except the Beast is actually Intel's drivers the 66.6 FPS result had about the same as the RX 6600 and that amount of sixes is just dangerous for YouTube's Auto captioning and might get us demonetized so we're gonna move on F1 2022 is one of the easiest Graphics loads we test but it still manages to be GPU Bound in most scenarios it's also running the X12 so we can give Arc a safe haven from the scars left on it by Rainbow Six the a750 ran at 100 FPS average leading the 300 RTX 3050 by about eight percent it's not a huge lead but under normal circumstances that'd be enough to consider the 290 a750 instead unfortunately for Intel there are wider issues that require a much bigger advantage to overcome the performance and consistency games a game for some other options the RTX 2060 leads the a750 marginally but not noticeably and the a770 does about the same with only a 6 FPS jump the RX 6600 would be the next major step up it's about 20 FPS more or so and the pricing has Arc cost in forty dollars more so it's looking good for the 66. at 1440p scaling shifts the a750 ahead of the 2060 now leading by a slight but measurable six percent the lead over the 3050 gross to 19 and that's up from eight percent at 1080p it's a big jump starting to become a noticeable Advantage for Intel and those aren't bad here either it's managing to maintain frame time consistency while also pulling ahead and performance Advantage Let's See How Far That that scaling will carry the card at 4K the a750 now pulls ahead of the RTX 3050 by 32 percent so it's gone from 8 to 19 to 32 percent that's some wild scaling and not something we've traditionally seen we know Nvidia did better towards the 4K side and AMD did better at 1080p but we've never seen the differences jump This Much from one resolution to the next even the a770 broke rank here it pulled ahead by 17 versus the a750 which is uncharacteristic this illustrates to us that the hardware differences in the a770 are becoming more relevant to its hierarchical rank even against a card with the same architecture when the load is sufficient at 4K but as for the a750 the card remains mostly playable you'd just be best off dropping the settings or resolution to get a solid 60 FPS Final Fantasy 14 is up now tested using dx11 and running on maximum settings dx11 is one of the weaker cases for Arc as we've seen but it does surprisingly well on Final Fantasy and that scales rapidly as the rest resolution increases the a750 ran at 164 FPS average here which had it functionally the same as the a770s 173 FPS average the 770 only has a lead of 5.4 percent which again isn't worth the 21 price increase so the a770 almost really doesn't need to exist for this initial launch it would just be better for Intel's reputation but they needed multiple products so compared to the rx6600 the a750 leads it by about five percent with a slight reduction in lead from the RTX 3060 while being significantly cheaper the RX 6600xde holds an 11 lead here 1440p gets more interesting where we previously saw an advantage of about five percent over the RX 6600 the a750 now leads by a massive 28 percent Intel scaling is coming into play the car jumps ahead of the 6600 XT as well Landing only behind the RTX 3070 the RX 6700 T and things above that as for the a770 that's almost linear in scaling predictably because it's the same architecture and it lands again at about five percent ahead at 4K the a750 ran at 52 FPS average keeping about the same distance between it and the a770 from previous tests the card is playable whereas the rx6600 has dropped into territory where you'd be better off reducing the resolution the lead of the a750 over the 6600 is now 42 percent so it climbed from five percent to 28 to 42 percent AMD is trending down which is known with its architecture Intel's trending up and the two of those combined in very interesting ways for the competition between them if the cards could play at 8K we might see this continue to ridiculous levels shout out of the Tomb Raider brings us back to dx12 at 1080p high the first thing we noticed was that the a750 had lower one percent and 0.1 percent lows than we'd expect for the average but they're not low enough to a signal bad frame time spikes or stuttering it's more of a footnote the a770 manages to hold a seven percent lead over the 750 making the former again seem unworthy especially considering cards like the 6600 can lead either the 6600s 126 FPS average result has a 16 ahead of the a750 a stark difference from Final Fantasy and the 6600 XT holds a 35 lead over the a750 we noticed that the lows recovered in 1440p testing these results were repeatable between multiple test passes in both resolutions so to us this means that the GPU might be shifting its bottleneck more to Intel strong points like memory performance the a750 is about tied with the rx6600 here with a measurable lead developing as compared to the RTX 2060 or RTX 3050 strange Brigade is back this one isn't played by many people at this point but it's one of the best optimized games we've tested and it has Vulcan which is the real reason we're showing it this gives a better idea for API scaling at 1080p for Intel house weakest situation the a750 manages 176 FPS average that has the a770 back to its eight percent lead from earlier and the a750 basically leads everything else not counting 30 70s and up so it establishes a 23 advantage over the RTX 3060 or a massive 62 advantage over the RX 6600 finally for 1440p the a750 leads the 3060 by 21 and the rx6600 is led by 65 percent not much different than before Intel just needs more games like this so wrapping up then it's first of all it's been a hell of a two weeks here at GN uh we're all pretty tired because we had the four CPUs plus we re-benchmarks all the other CPUs because we built new benches and test weeds then we re-benchmarked all of the gpus all this stuff has happened within two weeks the it's literally thousands of test passes at this point within two weeks from the team here so first of all for those of you on my team who do bother to watch the videos after we push them out the door thank you for getting us through the last few weeks uh now for the rest of you who are trying to figure out if you want to buy this card here's the quick recap the a770 it's about six to eight percent better than the 750 on average that difference is functionally meaningless it's negligible you're talking about a difference of sixty dollars in actual money means a lot more to people than a couple frames most the time and that's what we said about the 470 the 4A the 575 the 595.80 this is a an age to hold tale of company launches two gpus and one of them is just slightly better than the other one where it doesn't really make sense to buy the higher end one but they're probably just trying to there's some marketing strategy there with trying to force an upsell in certain segments so uh that's the good news is that it's most of a 770. now there's also staying on the upside for a moment here if you look at games where there's a positive light for Arc where it's doing well which again it's completely chaotic it's not consistent where it does well and where it doesn't for the average user you will not be able to predict where it will do well we can kind of predict it at this point but it's mostly down to apis so the positive side though total Warhammer 3 has the 750 at 1080p at 33 better than the RTX 3050 and the 3050 is a little bit more money at least at the time we were writing this review so that's a good thing for the 750 the 750 was also 14 better than an RTX 2060 again at 1080p now at 1440ps we've been saying for since the A380 review it starts to do a lot better and really pull ahead as you increase that resolution and so for 1440 the 750 out does the 3050 by 41 that is a massive increase over even just 1080. and it out does the 6600 non-xt by 39 percent that's in Total War again at 1440. so that's looking good a Rainbow Six looks really bad for the 750. so that's sort of the downswing of this Vulcan uh has some just general game issues right now and then Dia and that's not Intel that's Rainbow Six developers and then dx11 is bad for until it's a bloodbath so in that one the uh 2060 out did the 750 by 120 percent so useless in this game with this API for the 750. uh F1 1080p it was eight percent better than a 3050 a final fantasy it was five percent better than a 6600 a 6600 XT let it buy 11 1080p in Final Fantasy so you know overall this one is positioned better the fan could probably use a little more clearance this one's position this was not disassembled by the way the card is positioned better than the last one so uh purely from performance if you only look at this in charts and you ignore the entirety of the software experience and the stability and consistency in how the product works then it starts to look actually defensible as something to purchase so that's good for Intel that's where they need to be they need to be in that the camp of like yeah I guess I can deal with that for a little bit and hope that they keep pushing driver updates but for the average user we just we still can't recommend Arc right now because it's it's going to be frustrating for you and we don't want people to go out there and buy stuff where if you're buying only on charts it looks doable and then you're just upset when you get home and it's not working in a way that's easy to troubleshoot so that's the angle to look at if you're an Enthusiast that doesn't scare you great consider it a couple things here so uh first of all if you're happy with your computer today then just general reminder don't upgrade if you you either upgrade because you feel like you just want a fun project to do maybe you want something to distract you whatever that's great reason to upgrade but if you're happy with the performance right now and you don't feel like an immediate needs upgrade go ahead and hang on to what you have see what rolls out in the next few months and uh you know you stretch your dollar a lot farther that way it's also just less waste in general so that's a good thing we like to remind people that because it's easy to get so caught up in upgrading Cycles now uh ultimately remember also it is not the consumer's responsibility to prop up a hundred plus billion dollar Company by buying their 300 video cards thanks Steve so if you genuinely need a video card right now and you need something about this performance and you're aware of the downsides and you can deal with them then at least in terms of pure numbers it's competitive but you shouldn't be buying this only because you want to basically fund Intel's Kickstarter it owns Fabs it is one of the wealthiest companies in the world in history it's pretty high up there too uh you shouldn't be buying these things purely to support them it is not your responsibility to pay for Intel's r d which is what this is this is an r d project but they had to kick it out there into the wild because otherwise they just can't get enough Mass exposure to get all of those bug reports and issues back to iterate fast enough that's why I had to go this way so it's up to Intel to earn your money is what we're saying and uh it's not up to you to to just buy it just because it's new and that goes for any of these video card companies but with what we have today at least on the positive side this one is far stronger than the 770 was at the price point it is a much stronger value proposition so they're in a better place than where they were with the 770. the build quality is still really disappointing uh for the card and you can watch her tear down on that and the drivers will keep following up as they iterate and let you know when it gets better and at what speed but that's it for this one it's at least a little more positive than the last two videos on Arc and hopefully Intel can continue this trend because it's getting really interesting where it's like the best thing that's happened to AMD is Intel entering this Market because now AMD and Intel a much similar market share than Say in video which is like way out there they can start competing with each other in ways that should push each other forward maybe they can start catching up down video we have other features we want to look at we look at xcss and at RTX or RT and all that stuff that'll be future pieces and we're too slammed right now everyone here is exhausted thanks for watching subscribe for more go to stor.gamersaccess.net to support our unending work on the benchmarking or patreon.com Gamers and access if you want to give us a few bucks thanks for watching we'll see you all next time\n"