Synthetic benchmarks underline some potential
Written by Tom Kauwenberg on
The Arc A380, Intel’s first discrete video card for gamers, turns out to be slower in many benchmarks than Intel had previously revealed.
Intels Arc A380 (6 GB) is the first desktop card in the Alchemist generation on the playing field, albeit for the time being
Intel had previously indicated that the Arc A380 card would should be able to measure up to AMD’s budget-oriented Radeon RX 6500 XT (asking price at 250 euros), but leaked benchmarks (via
Where Intel may still be right is on the synthetic benchmarks front. In 3DMark’s Time Spy, the Arc A380 manages to achieve a notable score of 5170 points; significantly more than the GTX 1650, RX 6400 and even AMD’s slightly heavier RX 6500 XT.
Synthetic benchmarks are not always a one-to-one comparison with performance in games, but in this case Intel appears to deal significantly better with optimized workload. This underlines the potential of Intel’s graphics architecture (Intel Xe-HPG); it may still be able to achieve additional returns with the correct driver updates.
It is as yet unclear when the first Intel Arc video card is also introduced in the West, let alone at what price. The main hope is that Intel will be able to better adjust its graphic architecture to the actual games before that time. Until then, Intel Arc is exceptionally expensive, with only the synthetic results to back it up.
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