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Arc cards have pretty lackluster performance/watt which is important for LP cards, maybe with battlemage that'll change. For context an a750 uses around 240w while performing closer to a 3060 (170w), 3070 around 230w. All this while being on a more efficient process node (tsmc n6 vs samsung 8nm).
I think LP cards are pretty much dead in the water at this point. Closest thing we had was the 6400 which is an even worse card compared to the 1650…
Wish they'd release the mobile chips as low profile.
I've got a 145W 3070 in a laptop barely 2cm thick. It is a more than capable of modern gaming. 1080p high fps or 1440p and even 4k if 30-60fps is enough.
There is the RTX A2000. Pretty expensive since it's a professional card. But it absolutely slays the GTX 1650 and RX 6400 in the low profile space
been thinking of getting a gpu upgrade to play gta and rdr.. this or get a 1660 super or 6600xt? also im on a pretty old motherboard, as long as its pcie 4.0 its ok right? im on a skylake cpu haha
Resizable Bar was another big requirement, atleast initially, presume that hasn't changed….
1660 super is slower while the 6600xt is faster. Also if your motherboard doesn't have resizable bar don't even bother with intel gpus.
Thanks OP. Ordered two for SLI.
I assume this is a joke. But just for anyone not in the know, SLI is a proprietary NVIDIA technology and a dead one at that.
Multi-GPU gaming setups are a thing of the pastI don’t joke about SLI. MOAR Powerrrrrrrr
Your sarcasm detector through the roof.
I was about to buy a 2060 for 420$. This is a regular 16x pcie card is it not? Any reason it would have problems with a 8th gen gigabyte main board?
You will need to check if the motherboard support resizeable bar. Without ARC cards perform terribly .
ARC sees massive gains from ReBar which may or may not be supported by older motherboards depending on the model, so I'd definitely check that first
Ok thanks to the guys above looks like needs at least 10th gen CPU for resizable bar. So I'm out. Thanks for stopping me wasting money. Cheers.
With another 50 bucks you could consider a step up to AMD RX 6700 which should be much faster in non RT games and about the same for RT. Assuming you're gaming.
I'd buy a second hand 3070 instead. You might even find one that still has warranty.
Ended up biting the bullet. Thanks OP
Thoughts on upgrading to this from a 1070?
Its roughly equivalent to a GTX 1080 ti
I had the exact same question and looking at the specs it should be:
https://gadgetversus.com/graphics-card/nvidia-geforce-gtx-10…
https://www.gpu-monkey.com/en/compare_gpu-asrock_intel_arc_a…https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1070-vs-Int…
It just seems that immature drivers are holding it back?!?
personally wouldn't and would look at other options
Patiently waiting for a price drop for a770 and I will take one as a collection
A770 at this price and I will bite. Otherwise for someone who likes to play games on emulators as much as playing the latest triple AAA titles, this is a hard pass
What is the encoder like? I don't imagine it can compete against nvenc but AMD's is total rubbish.
It beats nvidia and amd in encoding thanks to the hardware av1 encoder https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-arc-av1-encoder-domi…
I think RTX4xxx has AV1 on NVENC, but pretty expensive only for that purpose.
Yep it does but WAAAAY outside my budget lol.
Got this to display. Thanks
Does anyone know about having 2 different GPUs running on 1 PC?
Currently have a 2060 and dont want to upgrade to a 30xx and was thinking of getting this ontop of my current card.
Are two different gpus compatible? will it increase my performance running both? or do i have to split the cards over 2 monitors or something
What you are describing is not a thing/not possible.
You can install two GPUs but they'll be running independently.
A game will be running exclusively on one GPU with no way of sharing the load.No no and no. Sell the 2060.
Do people even buy 2060s anymore secondhand?
For the right price, sure
Back in the day you could have different GPUs but Nvidia started releasing drivers that locked their GPUs out if they detected other brands.
It's probably still possible with some configuration, a year or two ago I was running multiple Nvidia GPUs with the monitor connected to the built-in MB Matrox card (to make sure all the VRAM was left for computing on NVidia GPUs).
Are two different gpus compatible? will it increase my performance running both? or do i have to split the cards over 2 monitors or something
I have two GPUs (RTX3090 + RTX3060) on my PC. You'll have to use them as separate cards for different workloads unless they both have NVLINK (like 2 * RTX3090). They will support different monitors and headless loads.
For gaming, it is not useful. Better to sell older card and get a newer one.
FWIW I purchased a A770 LE and had to return it as I couldn’t get it to play nice. I would get random hangs along with frequent hard resets even when on the desktop or Using word, after an extensive isolation test we couldn’t track the issue or conflict, the only thing we couldn’t isolate was the MOBO and the 11th gen cpu. Ended up getting a refund and purchased a 3070, with no issues, there are so many variables that can cause stability issues with the intel cards. YMMV
$300 for the card and $89 for COD MW 2 - not a bad deal for a budget PC, at all. If this is your price range, why not?
So what's Intel Arc?
Is it a new competitor to NVIDIA and ATI?
"So what's Intel Arc?"
It is a new competitor to NVIDIA and AMD.
Tempting as its AI performance ia good and i dont game that much.
Stil going down from a 3070 would hurt hahahttps://www.mwave.com.au/product/intel-arc-a750-8gb-video-ca…
For Sydney dwellers who can pick up Mwave have it for $399 as well. Same game deal. Save almost 10 bucks vs standard delivery option from PLE even at the 389 price (at least to my postcode).
Finally, a GPU that the proletariat can afford.
How easy to sell COD 2 and what likely price? anyone know :-)
OzBargain classifieds is good for those.
There may as already be other sellers there for this game, lots of GPUs including it right now, I think. So see what they are selling for.
The game isn't provided via a key, rather you have to authorise an "Intel - MW2" app to your Battle.net account and click redeem. Then the game will appear in your Battle.net account (and you can unlink "Intel - MW2").
The only way around this is to redeem the "master key" (provided by retailer) to a dummy Intel Gamers account, then provide the account login details to the person who buys it. This would be tricky.
Source: bought an Intel 12th gen CPU a few days ago.
how is this card? all i've heard is that its a hit and miss depending.
what do the latest drivers bring this in line with? 3070?
but videobenchmark has this card sitting under a 1070…???
I don't know a lot about this site, but they list a 7900x (cpu) as beating a 1080 (gpu) and an arc 770 as worse than a 780ti?
make sure what drivers the benchmarks are based on. They've changed massively with all the work they've been putting into optimisation
yeah so not really worth it from a 1070 then.
Surely this is a great option for those wanting to run an HTPC and use GPU acceleration for encoding and decoding for blu ray rips
Other than a bit of casual TF2, I haven't been much of a gamer over the years but I'd like to start playing a few games here and there.
Don't laugh at the card I have now.
This is a no brainer upgrade for $389 with a game chucked in for "free".
Thanks OP, bought one.TF2,
what is that ? Tensorflow 2 ?
Team Fortress 2, it is a new game.
Team Fortress 2
Edit: beaten by 8 seconds
How's everyone's purchase?
I'm really beginning to regret my purchase after only a day of use.
I've had frequent crashes in Windows 11 both when using normally and in games.
The hardware is also disappointing with some pretty bad coil whine under load.
Also thermal throttling with stock settings (190W power limit). Probably not entirely the card's fault, I'm using it in an NZXT H1 but no other cards have had thermal issues this bad.
Final gripe is the high idle power draw (~40W) which keeps the case quite hot all dayI expected the software to be not great but frequent hard crashes are a bit much.
The hardware is a bigger disappointment with problems cooling and the coil whine
Keen to hear other's experiences, maybe mine is faulty?Have you updated the drivers? I haven’t encountered a crash in the week or so that I’ve had mine, so quite surprised about your experience, als have you used ddu to uninstall the previous drivers?
Yep, on the latest driver. Was a fresh Windows install, only other graphics driver was Intel Integrated
I’m guessing that it might be the multiple displays. Have a 1440p 165Hz as the primary display and a 1080p 144Hz as a secondary.I'm 95% sure it's the dual monitor that is causing the random crashes. It's not even crashing under load, just when left idle, it will freeze the whole system requiring a hard shutdown.
So far so good when the second monitor is disconnected.
Thermals is still an issue. Even when strapping some 40mm fans inside the back of the case, it just delays the throttling.
I also tried to fix the high idle power draw, I was able to lower it by changing some BIOS settings as recommended by Intel
However, it seems to make the system more unstable with a BSOD flashing up briefly and then whole system reset (which is different to the freezing issue)
It didn't even take much off with the 1440p 165Hz display, maybe 10W from the ~40W idle. If I lowered the monitor refresh rate to 60Hz then it actually dropped it under 10WAnother update in case anyone is wondering.
It still kept crashing with just a single monitor so that wasn't it.
I set the PCIe to be Gen 3 instead of 4 in the BIOS and that's seems to have done the trick.;
No crashes, even with the second monitor plugged in again.
Can't tell if it was the motherboard, PCIe riser or GPU that caused that issue but it might be worth a shot if anyone is experiencing the same issue.
Not sure how much it's going to impact performance running at a lower PCIe bus speed.
Will probably end up swapping out the card since it's running too hotPCIe riser
You can't generally use risers for PCIe 4 unless you get lucky and have a riser with incredible signal integrity.
@Nom: Yeah, probably it's the riser. I'm not sure the PCIe version on it.
From what I've heard, it would simply not work at all if you tried to run a Gen 3 PCIe riser at Gen 4 speeds.
But I guess this sort of works situation can happen too@FireRunner: It's exactly like trying to send 4K120 video down a 10 metre HDMI cable.
It can work, but the cable needs to be of excellent quality, and it's a minefield finding the ones that are good enough !
@Nom: I find it weird that it works for a while but then suddenly crashes.
Like I've heard that some people won't get any signal when trying to run PCIe gen 4 with an incompatible riser and have to use a gen 3 card or directly plug the Gen 4 card into the PCIe bus to get to the bios to change it to Gen 3.
I was interested to hear how people were getting on, as I've been considering picking one up.
As it would be my only card and no iGPU I'm not sure it's sounding like a great idea…
Any smaller size pcs I could put this in? I haven't gamed, done pc stuff in years, at this price it seems less wasteful
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Yeah, it's so frustrating. Amd said that integrated graphics will replace low end gpu, but we still haven't seen a single affordable cpu with comparable igpu on the laptop scene, forget the desktop. Everything is stuck on the x900hs or x800u.
I'm really hoping the battlemage will come with a low profile as good as the rx6600. That gpu can run pretty well at 75w already.