Intel ARC A770 Limited Edition 16GB benchmark at 1440p

Chapters
0:00 Shadow of the Tomb Raider Highest
0:57 Shadow of the Tomb Raider RT
2:24 Horizon Zero Dawn Ultra
3:54 Red Dead Redemption 2 Ultra
5:13 Red Dead Redemption 2 High
7:06 Cyberpunk 2077 High
8:08 Cyberpunk 2077 Medium
8:49 Cyberpunk 2077 Medium RT M
9:46 Control RT M
10:28 Control High
11:24 Stray High
13:55 Uncharted Ultra
15:05 Uncharted High
16:50 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey [DX11] Very High

Finally bought the A770 at retail and the experience is mixed, it outperforms the RTX 3060 as Intel claims and in some titles its close to the 3060 TI in terms of performance and might even get better over time with driver optimizations but that aside there are other issues that makes this card far from being just a plug and play card.

Starting with ARC control, Intel’s version of Geforce Experience/Radeon Software which allows for recording or Live streaming gameplay. The software comes bundled with their driver package which installs both Intel command center and ARC Control but the installation ofr ARC Control is optional and it works without creating an account, the good things end here.

ARC Control can be invoked any time using short cut keys as the application always runs in the background and asks for permission every time the PC boots.

It runs as a full screen overlay and any app running in the background will respond to the cursor inputs made inside ARC Control.

There is an option for smooth sync which looks like the Intel version of adaptive sync but enabling it does nothing.

Recording is capped at 1080p 60FPS on a card capable of 1440p 60FPS, had to use OBS to record this video and that wasn’t straight forward either, OBS was crashing until the encoder was manually set to QuickSync, AV1 encoder in OBS crashes almost instantly as the CPU usage spikes once recording begins.

ARC Control feels like a rushed software built in a week using the OBS code, a lot of options cramped into one package and none of them work reliably. Intel needs to fix this, its not like the driver optimizations which is also need support form game developers. This is entirely on Intel’s hand, its their software for their GPU.

DX 11 titles are mostly unplayable,
Asassins Creed Origins 13FPS, Witcher 3 Wild Hunt above 60FPS but poor 1% Low, AC Odyssey 40FPS.

Its a decent GPU for DX12/Vulcan games and when it works it works very well, this video was edited using Davinci Resolve 18 and exported using the Intel AV1 encoder, the file size was a mere 1.6GB compared to the H.264 export for the same which was 5.2GB, it took around 30 min to export the video at 1440p 60FPS.

SYSTEM SPECS
Ryzen 5600X
ARC A770 16GB Driver 31.0.101.3490
MSI B450 Motherboard [re Bar enabled]
16GB DDR4 3200MHz ram