For its forthcoming Arc A750 Limited Edition GPU, Intel is moderating expectations. The chipmaker offers us the tiniest of views of the card’s somewhat mediocre on-paper performance in a new video that is only three minutes long.
Before we continue, it’s crucial to remember that the A750 is one of Intel’s top-of-the-line GPUs, as shown by the “7” in front of its name. According to Intel’s naming conventions, Arc 5 and Arc 3 sit below Arc 7, offering midrange and entry-level performance, respectively.
In the video, Ryan Shrout from Intel starts up Cyberpunk 2077 on a computer with the A750 chip installed, but instead of spending much time on gameplay, he jumps right to performance. Shrout claims that the card averages “just under” 60 frames per second (FPS) with the game set to the “high-quality” preset and 2560 x 1440 resolution. While this isn’t horrible, it’s not exactly what you’d expect from a firm like Intel’s entry into the discrete graphics card market.
Next, Shrout displays benchmark results, demonstrating how the card compares against the base-level Nividia GeForce RTX 3060. On games like Cyberpunk 2077, F1 2021, Control, Borderlands 3, and Fortnite, the Intel Arc A750 performs 1.06 to 1.15 times better than the typical RTX 3060. The performance of Arc won’t always appear this well in games, but Shrout cautions that these benchmark tests still provide “a terrific glimpse of what Arc is capable of with the correct game enablement and software engineering.” (Not to mention the fact that a third party didn’t carry out these tests.)
Obviously, we can’t truly judge a card’s performance until we put it to the test, but this initial impression provided by Intel isn’t that impressive. The entry-level Arc A380 desktop GPU and the A370M and A350M mobile GPUs from Intel have already been made available in a number of different notebooks in China. The Arc A750 GPU is scheduled to debut later this summer (which is supposed to hit the global market later this year).
For Intel’s new series of GPUs, things aren’t looking so good right now. According to a review by Linus Tech Tips, the 16-inch HP Spectre x360 laptop’s addition of Intel’s A370M actually rendered it “worse” than the RTX 3050 variant, and PC gaming YouTube channel Gamer Nexus noted inconsistent performance with the A380. Any new product will inevitably have bugs and other issues. As Linus points out in his video, users might be less likely to purchase something that necessitates exploring uncharted waters now that GPUs are so widely accessible. Nvidia’s 40-series cards are just around the corner.
