Intel has given us some fresh and up-to-date gaming performance benchmarks for the Arc A750 graphics card. A video detailing these benchmarks, as well as a blog post, came out earlier today and goes into a fair amount of detail. According to Intel, the Arc A750 is about the same as Nvidia’s RTX 3060, and in some cases, it’s better.
This demo is much more thorough than the previous showing in July. It’s also a reassuring sign for Intel’s first foray into the market of graphics cards, but the state of Intel’s drivers remain a point of concern.
It’s important to note that the RTX 3060 is a mid-range card at the moment, so the Arc A750 is by no means a high-spec contender. In fact, it’s clear that Intel still has a way to go to compete with Nvidia and AMD given that Arc GPUs are based on a more advanced silicon node than the competition. There are also major concerns in regards to how Arc GPUs will handle older games based on DirectX APIs like DirectX 11. Intel’s current focus is on DirectX 12, but plenty of today’s popular games only utilize DirectX 11.
The Intel benchmarks show some promise for the Arc A750’s gaming performance. To test out the Arc A750, Intel had two builds prepared for two game sets. The first set featured builds with a Corsair 4TB NVMe SSD, and an Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero with a 1601 bios. The second set featured the same motherboard with a 1505 bios, a Samsung 870 EVO 500GB SSD, and a Western Digital 8TB HDD. Each PC had an Intel Core i9-12900K, Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5-5200 memory, and used Windows 11.
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Most titles were tested with DirectX 12 at 1440p on high presets and maintain 60 fps or above. In more than a few titles, performance is even better than the same tests
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