Intel Arc A380 overclock makes the GPU 60% faster in Doom Eternal

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Intel’s first Arc Alchemist desktop graphics card was launched last month – but as you may recall, it’s still only on sale in China – and numerous reviews of the low-end model from manufacturer Gunnir are now cropping up, complete with disappointing conclusions on performance. However, one review gives us a possible explanation for what might be happening here.

These reviews of the Gunnir Arc A380 Photon have popped up in China (of course), Germany, and a couple of other countries including Russia, the latter being the one we’re interested in here.

Broadly speaking, the reviews (as flagged up by VideoCardz(opens in new tab)) have not been pretty for Intel, with Igor’s Lab declaring the Gunnir card ‘not approved’ for example (with a score of 1/5, but note, there was considerable criticism leveled at Gunnir, the manufacturer itself and the quality of its card, as opposed to Intel which produces only the GPU).

However, as spotted by Hot Hardware(opens in new tab), there is a brighter bit of news – sort of – here in that aforementioned Russian review, carried out by Pro Hi-Tech on YouTube(opens in new tab). While the Gunnir A380 came out behind Nvidia’s GTX 1650 and disappointed with its overall performance, the reviewer observed that the graphics card only pulled just over 35W despite being equipped with an external power connector — indicating it could be chugging a lot more than this, as a GPU can get a modest amount of power directly from the motherboard, and only needs external power from the PSU if it’s a 75W+ model.

So, the reviewer decided to juice up the A380 and see the results, and while Arc GPUs don’t work with third-party overclocking utilities, luckily Intel has its own integrated overclocking feature built into