Overseas benchmark results & review summary of GPU 'Intel Arc A750 / A770' released by Intel as the third camp



In September 2022, Intel

announced the GPU `` Arc A770 '' for desktop PCs, which claims to have `` performance equal to or higher than that of the RTX 3060 Ti ''. Since many overseas media have released the benchmark results and usability of such 'Arc A770', I tried to summarize.

Intel A770, A750 review: We are this close to recommending these GPUs | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/intel-a770-a750-review-strong-gpu-alternatives-that-we-very-nearly-recommend/

Intel's Arc A770 Limited Edition is the start of something great
https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-arc-a770-review/

Intel Arc A770 And A750 Limited Edition Review: Putting Alchemist To The Test | HotHardware
https://hothardware.com/reviews/intel-arc-a750-and-a770-limited-edition-reviews

Arc A770 Loses Up To 24 Percent Performance Without Resizable Bar | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/arc-a770-loses-25-percent-performance-without-resizable-bar

It seems that the review kit distributed to overseas media this time included the VRAM 16GB model of Arc A770 and the lower model 'Arc A750'. The specs of both are as follows. Both GPUs support ray tracing, and the upsampling function ' XeSS ' is also available.
model Arc A770 Arc A750
GPU architecture Alchemist Alchemist
render slice 8 units 7 units
Number of ray tracing units 32 28
graphic frequency 2100MHz 2050MHz
VRAM 16GB 8GB
memory interface 256-bit 256-bit
memory bandwidth 560GB/s 512GB/s
system interface PCIe Gen4.0 x16 PCIe Gen4.0 x16
power consumption 225W 225W
power terminal 1 x 8 pin 1 x 6 pin 1 x 8 pin 1 x 6 pin
hardware accelerator AVI, HEVC, H.264, VP9 AVI, HEVC, H.264, VP9
output DisplayPort2.0×3, HDMI2.1×1 DisplayPort2.0×3, HDMI2.1×1
Supported APIs DirectX12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6,
OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 13
DirectX12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6,
OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 13
Compatible OS Windows 10/11, Ubuntu Windows 10/11, Ubuntu
Intel Deep Link Correspondence Correspondence
Warranty period 3 years 3 years


Below are the results of Ars Technica benchmarking with multiple GPUs including Arc A770 and Arc A750. The Arc A770 beats the RTX 3060Ti in all three benchmarks except Fire Strike Ultra, and the Arc A750 also beats the RTX 3060Ti in Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme.



The number of frames per second (fps) when running the open world game '

Red Dead Redemption 2 ' at 4K and the highest settings is as follows. The Arc A770 and Arc A750 outperform the RTX 3060 and RX 6600XT in both average fps (orange) and average fps in the bottom 1% (blue).



On the other hand, when running '

Grand Theft Auto V ' at 4K at the highest setting, the fps of Arc A770 and Arc A750 were about half that of RTX 3060.



The table below summarizes the results of XDA Developers' verification of the effects of the supersampling function 'XeSS'. ' Shadow of the Tomb Raider ' has better fps with XeSS on, but ' DEATH STRANDING ' has lower fps. XDA Developers commented on this result, 'XeSS seems to be still in development.'



Also, Intel's Arc series includes an AV1 encoder, but according to XDA Developers, as a result of outputting a 4K60fps movie of about 4 minutes and 30 seconds using the Arc A770's AV1 encoder, it was output with an H.264 encoder. It is said that it succeeded in reducing the weight of 200 MB with the same image quality as the movie.

Below is a table summarizing the number of processed frames per minute when HotHardware renders CG images with the 3DCG software 'Blender'. The Arc A770 and Arc A750 seem to be able to process more frames than the RX 6600XT, but less than the RTX 3060.



As mentioned above, the Arc A770 and Arc A750 perform as well or better than the RTX 3060 depending on the application. However, when 'Resizable BAR', which makes PCIe communication more efficient, is disabled, it has been confirmed that performance drops. For example, Ars Technica encountered a phenomenon that ``the display of the web browser is disturbed and becomes unusable'' in an environment where Resizable BAR is disabled.



in Hardware, Posted by log1o_hf