News Intel Fixes Arc GPUs' High Dual-Monitor Power Consumption, 3+ Monitors Still a Problem

[Admin]

But Intel's Arc graphics cards are still power hungry when driving three and more displays.

Intel Fixes Arc GPUs' High Dual-Monitor Power Consumption, 3+ Monitors Still a Problem : Read more

 

[Deleted member 1353997]

But in idle mode GPUs don't need to send 60 or 120 high-resolution deep color images per second to displays, which is something that Intel's Arc-based graphics cards did (and competing products from AMD and Nvidia do not).

To be fair, even Nvidia occasionally has trouble with multi-monitor power consumption:
NVIDIA Finally Fixes Multi-Monitor Power Consumption of Turing GeForce 20. Tested on RTX 2070, 2080 and 2080 Ti. | TechPowerUp

 

[Deleted member 431422]

I really hope Intel will release Arc A5xx for 1080p gaming. I'm sick of what nVidia and AMD are doing with their latest GPU's. We need Intel, but not A380, or A750/770 which is too expensive for 1080p gamer.

 

[SSGBryan]

There isn't going to be an A5xx, tommo1982.

The good news is that an A750 is currently $250.

 

[magbarn]

AMD has the same issue with high refresh rate setups, my idle GPU consumption doubles/triples if I turn on >60 fps on my dual monitor setup on the 6700XT

 

[Co BIY]

Seems like this is the kind of problem that should have had a solution that came direct from the iGPUs with little new work.

Obviously its not that simple.