Why it issues: As Intel rolls out its freshman line of devoted graphics playing cards, the primary benchmarks are rising. The corporate’s newest official check tries to make the case for the A750 in opposition to Nvidia’s midrange GPU, however many questions stay as each firms and AMD put together to launch new playing cards within the second half of this 12 months.
This week, Intel revealed a short benchmark of its upcoming Arc A750 graphics card, claiming it compares favorably with Nvidia’s RTX 3060 in a number of common video games. Earlier Arc benchmarks, each official and unofficial, have been combined to this point.
The first title Intel examined in its video (above) is Cyberpunk 2077, however it additionally confirmed comparisons for Management, F1 2021, Borderlands 3, and Fortnite. All of the comparisons present the A750 performing about 15 p.c higher than the 3060. Intel’s card manages round 60 frames per second in Borderlands, Management, and Cyberpunk at 1440p utilizing the excessive graphics preset. F1 and Fortnite run properly north of 120fps.
Nonetheless, the comparability does not point out picture reconstruction — one other space the place Intel needs to compete with Nvidia. All of the examined video games besides Borderlands assist Nvidia’s DLSS, which might probably give the 3060 a lot increased framerates. At present, none are on the checklist of video games planning to function Intel’s XeSS. Solely Cyberpunk and F1 assist AMD FSR.
The opposite Arc GPUs are additionally set to compete with Nvidia’s entry-level and mainstream playing cards, however some checks have been disappointing. Official A730M and A770M benchmarks put them near the RTX 3050 Ti and 3060. The A770 is meant to match the 3070 Ti, however checks in April confirmed markedly worse outcomes, probably owing to incomplete Intel drivers. Final month, an early assessment of the funds A380 was much more dismal.
Whereas Intel’s graphics playing cards are nonetheless solely out there in China and South Korea, the corporate maintains that it plans to launch them in different markets later this summer season. Nvidia and AMD will every launch a brand new era of GPUs later this 12 months, which can probably additional outperform Intel’s merchandise.