Intel Arc A380: Beaten by Radeon RX 6400 in first test [Update]

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from Maximilian Hohm
Now Updated: Long-awaited, delayed multiple times, Intel’s Arc Alchemist desktop graphics cards are now launching at a time when AMD and Nvidia’s new model releases are not far off and current-gen models are falling in price significantly are. According to information from Videocardz, the NDA should already fall today and a first test of the Gunnir A380 Proton has even been published in China.

Original article from 06/22/2022: In this, the Intel counterpart to AMD’s Radeon RX 6400/ 6500 XT and Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 1650 / RTX 3050 with a Core i5-12400, a B660 motherboard and DDR4 memory is tested. In the full configuration of the ACM-G11 GPU, the A380 has 8 Xe cores, 6 GiB GDDR6 memory on a 96-bit bis and is clocked at 2.45 GHz in boost on the GPU. Only the 16 Gbps modules from Samsung are operated at 15.5 Gbps. According to the first benchmarks in synthetic titles, the Arc A380 can keep up well with the entry-level models of the competition and places itself between the Geforce RTX 3050 and the Radeon RX 6500 XT.

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It achieves a score of 5,170 points in 3D Mark Timespy, while an RTX 3050 scores 6,250 points. This places it above the still extremely popular Geforce GTX 1060 6 GiB, which averages 4,523 points with the same CPU. In Port Royal, however, the Arc A380 only gets 947 points, while the Geforce RTX 3050 gets 3,534 points.

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However, the gaming tests reveal that Intel still has a lot of work to do with the drivers for the Arc Alchemist models. The Arc A380 cannot deliver on popular titles such as League of Legends, PUBG, GTA 5, Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2. It is beaten in every single game by the weakest AMD and Nvidia models, and the lead that the Radeon RX 6400 and Geforce GTX 1650 were able to work out is sometimes more than 20 percent.

Source: Videocardz


Update from 06/23/2022: To get a slightly broader impression of the first test results of Intel’s Arc-A380 desktop card, it’s worth taking a look at further tests, analyzed by 3D Center. According to this, the Bilibili test is the current worst case, so to speak, with an average of 18 percent behind the RX 6400. Mydrivers lands at -11 percent, Expreview at -12 percent and Wccf Tech at -8 percent. It should be noted, however, that a factory overclocked Arc A380 was used here. The Intel standard is 75 watts TDP with 2,000 MHz boost, the Gunnir card used ran with 93 watts TDP and 2,450 MHz boost.

Reference-www.pcgameshardware.de