Intel Arc GPUs Outperform Nvidia At Raytracing In Some Games

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While Nvidia and AMD have dominated the graphics card industry for quite a long while now, Intel may be on the cusp of shaking up this niche at long last. Its Arc lineup of graphics cards may have been a long time coming, and it might not be able to go toe-to-toe with super-high-end GPUs such as the RTX 3090Ti and its imminent successor, but mid-tier offerings are already rather promising.

In fact, the latest benchmark sheet from Intel suggests that its Nvidia RTX 3060 competitor, the Arc A770, may well be better performaning in a variety of raytracing-enabled video games. Intel's flagship GPU seems to run some raytraced games substantially better than the RTX 3060 at 1920x1080, though it's far from a complete wash for Nvidia's mid-tier offering.

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While Intel claims its laptop Arc GPUs outperform Nvidia's mobile RTX chips, information about the mainline desktop cards has sadly been somewhat scarce ahead of its release. Now, however, Intel's benchmarks suggest that the A770 runs some raytracing games way better than the RTX 3060 does. Specifically, raytraced Fortnite seems to run about 56% faster at 1080p on the A770, while benchmarking darling Control performs roughly 19% better. In select cases, however, RTX 3060 still fares better, with F1 2022, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Battlefield V all showing less performance on the Intel GPU.

Overall, Intel's testing referenced 17 unique games, with just four of them running better on the Nvidia RTX 3060. This, it's worth pointing out, is without touching upon any AI-based supersampling solutions. The following graph showcased Intel's proprietary XeSS AI supersampler, which can substantially boost the card's