The Intel Arc owners thread

[humbug]

Oof...

We all know Intel still have some work to do on the GPU side and to be fair not all of this..... thing ..... is Intel's fault, aside from exhibiting some of the known issues with ARC, i mean we know about those things, its not actually that bad as a piece of hardware for this job.
MSI aren't helping with poor implementation, its also very expensive.

I agree with Steve who is confused about its existence, and the man in the Chinese shop who sold it to him being confused as to why Steve wanted to buy it given no one has... for good reason.

There is definitely some Intel money going on, Intel take one of these things wherever they go now saying "look someone trusts us with handhelds, we have come of age" Unfortunately for MSI they are ruining their reputation with handhelds right off the bat...

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Yeah, this model of CPU absolutely isn't there for handhelds.
You'd have to be a major masochist to buy one, aside from Youtube content.

 

[Quartz]

 

[Yaayuh!]

Oof...

We all know Intel still have some work to do on the GPU side and to be fair not all of this..... thing ..... is Intel's fault, aside from exhibiting some of the known issues with ARC, i mean we know about those things, its not actually that bad as a piece of hardware for this job.
MSI aren't helping with poor implementation, its also very expensive.

I agree with Steve who is confused about its existence, and the man in the Taiwanese shop who sold it to him being confused as to why Steve wanted to buy it given no one has... for good reason.

There is definitely some Intel money going on, Intel take one of these things wherever they go now saying "look someone trusts us with handhelds, we have come of age" Unfortunately for MSI they are ruining their reputation with handhelds right off the bat...

FTFY

 

[humbug]

FTFY

Yes and i agree, it wasn't a political choice, just a mistake

 

[Quartz]

New driver 31.0.101.5444 up.

Note that the driver says it has a VBIOS update included though it didn't apply one to my A770.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

The last driver release definitely ran through the vbios update on my bifrost card. I'll install later tonight.
Still just using the Legion Go for all my PC gaming just now. Desktop just doesn't feel like where I want to be.

 

[Quartz]

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 3.2 Update Adds Intel XeSS Support on PC

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 3.2 Update Adds Intel XeSS Support on PC, 40 FPS Mode on Consoles

A new Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora update has gone live today, introducing Intel XeSS support on PC and 40 FPS mode on consoles

wccftech.com

Not a game I play, though.

 

[Quartz]

Battlemage laptop GPUs will only support DP 2.0, not DP 2.1

Intel Battlemage GPUs to support DisplayPort 2 up to UHBR13.5 mode - VideoCardz.com

Intel Battlemage GPUs support DisplayPort UHBR13.5, an upgrade over Alchemist UHBR10 Intel is adding patches that enable display support for next-gen Battlemage series. Intel has issued a series of patches that enable display support for the Battlemage GPU series. These patches introduce...

videocardz.com

 

[Quartz]

New driver 31.0.101.5444 up.

Tested here:

 

[Quartz]

Level1Techs re-review Intel Arc.

 

[Jay85]

SPARKLE introduces twin-fan Intel Arc A770 ROC OC Edition in black and LUNA white

The new SPARKLE Intel Arc A770 ROC OC Edition 16GB is a compact 2.5-slot version of the current flagship Intel Arc A770, and only costs around $300.

www.tweaktown.com

These look interesting but omg why the blue pcb! Haven't seen a blue pcb since 2005!

 

[Freddie1980]

SPARKLE introduces twin-fan Intel Arc A770 ROC OC Edition in black and LUNA white

The new SPARKLE Intel Arc A770 ROC OC Edition 16GB is a compact 2.5-slot version of the current flagship Intel Arc A770, and only costs around $300.

www.tweaktown.com

These look interesting but omg why the blue pcb! Haven't seen a blue pcb since 2005!

Could be worse, they could have gone with one of those generic light green ones they use in OEM machines and server grade products.

 

[Jay85]

Could be worse, they could have gone with one of those generic light green ones they use in OEM machines and server grade products.

Oh god please don't.... Even OEM's don't use green anymore. I'm pretty sure even Dell and HP OEM's use black now lol.

Hopefully they're just engineering samples so the official ones will be black.

 

[Jay85]

Has anyone got their hands on the Gunnir Photon cards yet?

 

[Quartz]

Things are looking promising for Battlemage with it giving very strong iGPU results:

Intel Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU Spotted In Next-Gen HP Spectre x360 Laptop, Strong Battlemage "Xe2" Arc iGPU Performance

Intel's Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU has been spotted in an HP Spectre x360 laptop, featuring strong Battlemage Arc iGPU performance.

wccftech.com

 

[Boomstick777]

Since I've been using this A770, I've noticed decent performance gains with each new driver, and improved power consumption at IDLE with the new BIOS. stability and support wise it's been really good, even gaming at 4K is great. I would def recommend this card at this point to people as a bang for buck viable alternative to AMD and Nvidia.

 

[humbug]

Since I've been using this A770, I've noticed decent performance gains with each new driver, and improved power consumption at IDLE with the new BIOS. stability and support wise it's been really good, even gaming at 4K is great. I would def recommend this card at this point to people as a bang for buck viable alternative to AMD and Nvidia.

But not at £330 right? i can think of a serval cards that are way better for between £300 and £400.

its far too expensive.

Intel ARC A770 Phantom Gaming 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Order Intel ARC A770 Phantom Gaming 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card now online and benefit from fast delivery.

www.overclockers.co.uk

 

[JediFragger]

its far too expensive.

Yup, and losing money on every card. People gonna have a shock at Battlemage pricing when it comes...

 

[Quartz]

But not at £330 right?

It's still the cheapest GPU with 16 GB VRAM, though the 16 GB 4060 cards are not much more. But for gamers, you're right: it should be around the £200-£250 mark.