The only real disadvantage of these cards is their DX9 and DX11 performance, graphics APIs that have become much less popular over the last five years but make up a large proportion of older games. Here, the Intel GPUs are hamstrung by a relatively immature driver and performance suffers as a result. Similarly, you shouldn't get the Arc GPUs if your system doesn't support Resizeable BAR, a technology that allows more direct access to GPU memory - without it enabled, performance tanks. Thankfully, most motherboards made in the last three plus years do support the feature. What are the prices of the Arc A770 and A750? You hate troubleshooting: We've had serious errors just in testing this machine, and the inconsistent Intel Arc drivers will likely require some troubleshooting on your part down the line, too. Unleash your imagination and captivate audiences with rich digital content creation using a hyper advanced media engine, augmented by AI and accelerated by Intel® Deep Link technology. Create compelling content, powered by the first graphics card with support for all current leading media formats, and keep yourself up to date with the most advanced AV1 video encode capabilities.

TBH, not an unexpected outcome for their first product. The DX12 emulation was a strange choice, forward-thinking sure, but not at that much cost to older games they know reviewers are still testing on. Was wishing/hoping Intel's R&D budget could've gotten a little closer to market parity (I'm sure they did also for pricing) but I don't know what their R&D budget was for this project. Seems like their experience in IGP R&D could've been better extrapolated into discrete cards, but apparently not.These cards are especially good for content creators, with AV1 encoding providing a massive quality boost versus older H.264 and H.265 at the same bitrate, or alternatively a much lower bitrate while maintaining the same quality. Intel focused on the Arc A750 and DirectX 9 for the launch of this driver, but the company claims that this driver will benefit all of its graphics cards, not just the Arc A750. (It made promises of improvements in DirectX 11 titles, as well.) This means you should see improvements with Intel’s Arc A380 and the more powerful Arc A770 Limited Edition too. Klarna Bank AB (publ) is Authorised by the Swedish Financial Services Authority (Finansinspektionen) and is subject to limited regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority.

This reduced price helps with the latter issue, but again, Intel claims that it’s made significant headway into resolving its driver issues, too. Intel claims an average 43% performance gain on DirectX 9 with its new driver compared with the Arc A750’s launch driver. Improvements in select titles, like CS:GO, are listed to be even higher, at 77%, with frame times also improving considerably to deliver a more consistent experience. Intel revealed pricing for the Arc GPUs in a new presentation, which includes benchmarks showing the Arc A750 can trade blows and sometimes beat the RTX 3060 in several games running at 1440p, including Fortnite, Elden Ring, and Apex Legends. My biggest concern is future support. They said they're committed to dGPUs, but this product line clearly didn't live up to their expectations. Unless we're all being horribly lied to on GPU pricing, it doesn't seem like Intel is making much/any money on the A750/770. Certainly not as much as they'd hoped. If next gen is a flop also.....who knows, maybe they call it quits. Then what? Would they still provide driver updates? For how long? To be sure, this is a small sample. But overall, these results suggest the improvements from the new driver may be pretty limited unless you are playing the older DirectX 9 games Intel touted. However, we no longer test games that rely on DirectX 9 due to their age, and because almost all other GPUs today are able to run DirectX 9 games at least moderately well. The Intel Core i5-13400 inside the Maingear MG-1, however, is one of the better budget processors offering strong gaming and synthetic performance overall. Considering the relatively budget price of this machine, the company definitely made the right call going with the Raptor Lake CPU instead of opting for an older Alder Lake version. Despite the fact there's a good chance you're getting actual Alder Lake cores, and therefore not necessarily Raptor Cove P-cores and their extra cache (Intel use both Alder Lake and Raptor Lake dies for the 13400-series) you do get more cores for your money compared to the Core i5 12400 and consequently more cache because of it. For gaming at 1080p and 1440p, you're absolutely in good hands here.Because both the A750 and A770 can have a lower price over Nvidia’s RTX 3060, Intel is emphasizing the “performance per dollar” uplift consumers will receive if they opt for an Arc graphics card. So if newer games that support these techs aren't the issue, what's the problem? Well, older games built around the DirectX 9 and DirectX 11 graphics APIs perform much worse on Arc than DirectX 12 or Vulkan games, as these APIs are supported via a translation layer to DX12. These games tend to be less demanding in general, so this isn't disastrous, but Arc becomes a better deal the more likely you are to play modern releases rather than semi-recent titles - the ones that are new enough to still be challenging for this tier of graphics hardware but not new enough to use a modern API. Yup, to rephrase that - the RTX 3060 is outclassed by around 20 percent by the Arc A750, yet this card is significantly cheaper. If I was in the market for an entry-level gaming PC build targeting 1080p, this is the graphics card I'd choose. Have a AMD 6000 series and this, A770 for the comparative price of what is can do / process according to a comparsion with with one of steams major gfx test apps. The AMD top range 6950 XT in a 4k test got about 9000 and this got 6500 roughly, So as you can see for price as to what you get is great and a lot of games will run on this absolutely fine. I really don't know why the gaming desktop community ain't catching on. Yes driver may need time, yes i don't know what its like for mining. As for sound the A770 is nearly silent, i here the CPU fan over the card fan for air cooling. The only reason i bought it, is because i once ran a game off of the integrated GFX of an INTEL CPU by accident and noticed "smeg" all difference, so i wanted to see what their offering could do. I am not disappointed in this card all all and just hope it gets the support from the community and company it should have. Factoring in the price point, the mediocre specs, and the inconsistent nature of the Intel Arc A750 in its current form, I can't really recommend this particular build to anyone, even if they are on a tight budget. While the 1080p and 1440p performance is solid when it works, the number of crashes I encountered and the difficulties with game stability in general mean that you're ultimately better off investing in a rig that's running something from Team Green or Red instead at a similar or even slightly higher price point.

Looking at the direct competition, which, based on current GPU prices , would be the AMD RX 6600 or RX 6650 XT and the Nvidia RTX 3050, things are a bit messy. Let's just get this out of the way and say that the RTX 3050 ends up hopelessly outclassed. That was already true with the RX 6600, and the Arc A750 can pour some salt into the wound. But the AMD cards aren't going to roll over so easily. Details about the extent of our regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority are available from us on request. Intel classifications are for general, educational and planning purposes only and consist of Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCN) and Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) numbers. Any use made of Intel classifications are without recourse to Intel and shall not be construed as a representation or warranty regarding the proper ECCN or HTS. Your company as an importer and/or exporter is responsible for determining the correct classification of your transaction. However, that price drop alone may not be enough to make the Arc A750 worth buying. The Intel Arc A750 performed rather poorly when we reviewed it. The card’s performance was inconsistent, and driver issues caused some games, like Red Dead Redemption 2, to not run at all. This, along with reduced prices on competing AMD and Nvidia cards, made the Arc A750 difficult to recommend. Now, while it's true you can simply open the case up and slot an extra NVMe drive in there, that really shouldn't be the case for a computer costing over a thousand dollars, not when many of its rivals ship with 1TB as standard. It makes me seriously question just how viable this machine really is for the future as an investment in the PC gaming space, because it's already showing signs of struggling right now.The specs of the new Intel Arc series GPUs aren't half bad for the price, and bring with them some intriguing features, too. You can see this for yourself in our table below. You're after a good value budget rig: There are far better value systems on offer even from Maingear itself. Finance is only available to permanent UK residents aged >18, subject to status, terms and conditions apply. Second, Arc cards are brilliant at ray tracing and their XeSS AI upscaler is comparable in quality to Nvidia's DLSS 2 - although it is supported by much fewer games than DLSS or AMD's FSR 2.