Do NOT Buy Without Watching This First! – Intel Arc A770 (16GB) VR Performance

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Thanks to the introduction of the Oculus (aka Meta) Quest 2, Virtual Reality has gained a lot of popularity over the past couple of years and has begun to make it’s way into the main stream. While the Quest 2’s stand alone capabilities are impressive the BEST VR experiences are still only to be had on PC. But gaming in virtual reality on PC requires some pretty powerful hardware to get the best experience and I wanted to find out just how powerful the Intel ARC A770 is. There’s more than a few ARC A770 reviews on YouTube but very few of them talk about it’s performance in PC VR games. At the time I’m making this video; officially, Intel’s ARC Alchemist GPU’s (A750 & A770) do NOT support VR. This doesn’t mean they can’t play VR games at all though. Using a 3rd party app called Virtual Desktop I was able to run some tests and see what the VR performance of the A770 is in it’s current unsupported state. If you own a Quest 2 and are wanting to get into PC VR and looking at purchasing an ARC A770 for VR (which I don’t really recommend seeing as there isn’t official VR support at this time), in this video I tried playing 8 different VR titles (namely Beat Saber, Contractors, Half Life Alyx, Assetto Corsa, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Red Matter 2, The Walking Dead Saints & Sinners and Lone Echo 2) to see just how well the ARC A770 performs in Virtual Reality and whether or not the A770 is the right choice for you. Enjoy. 🙂

Curious about Virtual Desktop? Head over to their website to learn more – https://www.vrdesktop.net/

Test System Specs:
CPU – Ryzen 7 5800X3D – https://amzn.to/3RsZ06O
Motherboard – Asus Strix X470-f Gaming – https://amzn.to/3u0GGqJ
CPU Cooler – DeepCool Castle 240EX A-RGB AIO – https://amzn.to/3gGMSRH
RAM – Corsair Vengeance RGB RT 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3600MHz CL16 – https://amzn.to/3UukZua
GPU – 16GB Intel ARC A770 – https://amzn.to/3X1D7gj
Boot/Storage Drive – Samsung 970 Evo 1TB NVME SSD – https://amzn.to/3EvFXTe
Power Supply – Corsair RM1000x 80 Plus Gold – https://amzn.to/3Xy7ufv
Case – Antec DP503 – https://amzn.to/3gz2QgG

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Wanna skip to a particular part of the video? Use the Chapters. 🙂

Chapters
0:00 – Things did not go as I expected them to
0:48 – thank you Guy Godin!
1:31 – Beat Saber
2:02 – test system specs
2:24 – Contractors
3:05 – Half Life Alyx
4:05 – Assetto Corsa
4:42 – Microsoft Flight Simulator
5:46 – Red Matter 2
6:34 – The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
7:00 – Lone Echo 2
7:36 – Yea or Nay?

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