Review Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition Review: Bringing Back Midrange GPUs

[Deleted member 431422]

TechPowerUp has that in their summary table. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-arc-a770/38.html

I'm adding the site to "to read"... Thank you

 

[Matt_ogu812]

The Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition proves that Intel actually has the potential to compete with the likes of AMD and Nvidia in graphics cards. It delivers a compelling alternative for the $349 asking price, with plenty of forward-looking features, though drivers continue to be a work in progress.

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"The Russian invasion of Ukraine if you're looking for reasons."

Now that's a far stretch.

 

[tek-check]

I cannot see anything above $500 as less than high-end. Far too expensive to be called mid-range in my book regardless of who AMD or Nvidia pitches them at. I'm quite disappointed that they have been so successful at grooming so many of their customers into accepting exorbitantly inflated prices versus what the prices should have been if GPUs had healthy competition instead of a duopoly.

Sure. You have upper-midrange 6700XT below $400 now.
It is Nvidia that prices their GPUs higher than equivalent ones from AMD.

 

[Eximo]

Yeah, the 3050 is still well above MSRP for no particular reason. 3060 is basically there but still overpriced compared to the RX6600 and is beat out by the 6600XT/6650XT. Start getting into more proper price/performance comparisons above that.

 

[Co BIY]

Any user reports on the Arc cards ?

 

[Eximo]

Drivers are still pretty bad. Got stuck in a notification loop the other day asking to update, then telling me that REBAR wasn't enabled, then asking to update, then telling me that REBAR wasn't enabled and so on for about 9 rounds. (which is not possible on that motherboard anyway, you would think they would check) The self updater doesn't seem to work either, just takes you to Intel download via browser, kicks it off and does nothing with it presumably. Still says there are updates available. Probably have to take care of it manually at some point.

Common issues so far. Sound over HDMI intermittently doesn't recover after the screen has been off a while. Have to go into device manager and disable/enable the HDMI sound driver. Also necessary when launching games sometimes.

Extremely brief black screens when closing browsers tabs that are displaying video. (Doesn't happen all the time, may be sidebar advertisement related)

Still stutters in older DX titles.

 

[CodyBur]

I'd like to see benchmarks cappped at 60fps. Not everyone uses high refresh rate monitor and today, when electricity is expensive and most likely will be even more in the near future, I'd like to see how much power a GPU draws when not trying to run the game as fast as possible.

This makes no sense from a reviewers perspective as I'd say your case scenario reflects very little-in any- of most users who'd be reading reviews. First off, high refresh monitors are EXTREMELY cheap now, and anyone who can afford to buy a GPU of this level or higher can easily afford to buy a $200 or less monitor, and if not, it doesn't really make a lot of sense to even be purchasing such a GPU. Secondly, if you want a GPU that's can hit 60 fps while using the least electricity, just purchase one of the many GPUs available that are capable of doing so at the lowest tdp possible, as there's lots of options that are plenty capable (such as the RX 6600) at prices cheaper than this one. But to expect a reviewer to take this into account when far more people are going to be interested in seeing what a GPU is fully capable of is, like I said, just silly.

 

[Liem]

Just bought an open box a750 and it is a surprisingly smooth experience, from installation to game, I have not encountered anyt glitches for the moment... and it 's a compliment to Intel from an AMD follower since the 486 Dx2 66.
I play most game wit high or highest setting in 1080p or 1440p and it is quite smooth
I must say: Bravo Intel, on this one. I am very impressed.

 

[Eximo]

The latest driver package solved many of the problems I was having.

Arc Control is now a standard taskbar application rather than an overlay. Near as I can tell all my issues with the sound have gone away. It now automatically detects when sound is necessary and fires it up. A little slower than I am used to, but within a second or two.

They concentrated on some DX9 titles and they are much improved, but less popular ones still have issues. But there isn't anything I have thrown at it that it can't at least run. Everything I have run with DX12 has been zero issues. I don't think I have any vulkan titles to try out.