Intel’s tempering of expectations for the upcoming Arc A750 Limited Edition GPU. In a new video that’s just three minutes long, the chipmaker gives us the briefest glimpses yet of the card’s fairly average performance on paper.
Before we dive in, it’s important to note that the A750 is supposed to be one of Intel’s top GPUs, as indicated by the “7” at the beginning of its name. Intel’s naming conventions include Arc 5 and Arc 3 below Arc 7, which are supposed to offer mid-range and entry-level respectively.
During the video, Intel’s Ryan Shrout loads up Cyberpunk 2077 on a PC with an A750 chip installed, and instead of giving us a long look at the gameplay, Shrout jumps right into performance. With the game preset at “high quality” and a resolution of 2560 x 1440, Shrout says the card averaged “just under” 60 frames per second (FPS), which isn’t bad, but not necessarily what you’d expect. from a company like Intel debuting discrete graphics cards.
Intel’s Arc A750 performs 1.06 to 1.15 times better than the standard RTX 3060. Image: Intel
Shrout then shows benchmark tests, revealing how well the card stacks up against the entry-level Nividia GeForce RTX 3060. The Intel Arc A750 performs 1.06 to 1.15 times better than the stock RTX 3060 in games like Cyberpunk 2077, F1 2021, Control, Borderlands 3 and Fortnite. But these benchmark tests come with an asterisk – Shrout points out that “Arc’s performance won’t look like this in all games” and describes the test as “a great look at what the Arc is capable of with the right game activation and software engineering.” (Not to mention that these tests weren’t done by an independent party.)
Obviously, it’s impossible to tell how a card really performs until we try it out for ourselves, but this first look offered by Intel isn’t exactly mind-blowing. Intel’s Arc A750 GPU is due for release later this summer, but Intel has already released its A370M and A350M mobile GPUs in several different notebooks, as well as the entry-level Arc A380 GPU in China (which should reach the global market later this year).
So far, things aren’t looking so good for Intel’s new line of GPUs. A review from Linus Tech Tips says that the addition of Intel’s A370M actually made the 16-inch HP Specter x360 laptop “worse” than the previous RTX 3050 model, while PC gaming YouTube channel Gamer Nexus reports inconsistent performance with the A380. Bugs and other problems are inevitable with any new product, and as Linus points out in his video, consumers may be less inclined to buy something that requires diving into uncharted territory, especially as GPUs become so readily available and cards from the Nvidia’s 40 around the corner.
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