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Intel Arc A770 16G
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David, Praha 13
Rated 16/09/2023, variant Intel Arc A770 16G
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For myself, after a month of daily use, complete satisfaction. I also switched from GTX 1060 6 GB and the difference is significant. Being a fan of the third player and Intel from the beginning, curiosity got the better of me when it was quite a risk, but for myself I don't regret it yet and out of about 25 games I had the opportunity to try, test and play, I don't notice any major problems. For example System Shock Remake, No mans Sky, Returnal (here also with RT on epic), Death Stranding, Pillars of Eternity, Layers of Fear 2, Dark Souls Remastered (modified), Witcher 3 (old gen due to mods, DXVK above helped a lot here), D2R, Vampyr, The Outer Worlds, RE 8: Village and others. All on fullHD with max details (pr. smes high) with high FPS (I lock the monitor at 75 Hz). Anyway, it depends of course on the rest of the build (personally I have it paired with i7 11700f, 16 gb ram DDR 4 3600 CL 17 Kingston Predator, Z590 board Gigabyte Gaming X with PCI-E 4, 1 TB M2 gen. 3 Samsung 980), the need to verify the ReBar function in the BIOS of the board. Everything you need is on the intel support pages, incl. instructions on how to "tame" the demand in idle mode (currently between 5-20 W depending on the situation), again as described by others below.
- currently performs between RTX 3060-3060 ti, in some games close to RTX 3070, with 16 GB of memory
- the drivers have come a solid way since release, I don't really have any "crashfests" or BSODs
- basically agree with what others write below.
- for some (not all or even most today) older games under DX 11 pr. DX 9 still needs to use DXVK libraries, which is a matter of copying 2 files to the game directory with "exe". The performance is then often 3 times as good and without any "stuttering". I recommend the lightly modified DXVK GPLasync 2.2-2.4 version, it has worked best for me
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Ondřej, Bílovice nad Svitavou
Rated 08/07/2023, variant Intel Arc A770 16G
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I bought the GPU just out of interest. I use on Linux.
16GB VRAM
decent performance for the price
HW codec support + unlimited parallel processing (this may interest people who whine that Nvidia has limited max. 3-4 encodes/decodes in parallel on GeForce and they don't want to pay for Quadro. ). Comparing quality using the R-D curve, Intel's codecs are on par with Nvidia's NVENC for H264 and H265. VP9 is an exception though, that one is really bad on Intel, but still a bit better than what AMD integrates. In general, it's quality-wise like encoding using x264 on the "faster" preset or x265 on the "veryfast" preset, but faster than on the CPU (4K H264 goes around ~400fps when using the OneVPL library, since VAAPI makes unnecessary copies and doesn't use HW accelerated upload/download to system RAM, etc. I can imagine using it on an ABR ladder where a single image is encoded at multiple bitrates and resolutions. ). It's hard to tell with AV1, the GPU is very good at encoding "synthetic" video like screen recording, but it's also good for movies or game recording. Very decent support for various encoding profiles like YUV 4:4:4 H264, YUV 4:2:0 10-bit AV1 and good support for various output pixel formats from HW decoder.
Support on Linux is good and the GPU is stable.
Consumption is not high, definitely no more than 20W for desktop work now. (on Linux)
You can play most games on Linux in 4K just fine. After all, WIndows uses DXVK, which was originally created to translate D3D7-11 to Vulkan for gaming on Linux.
open source drivers on Linux - it's literally a plug&play (the computer has to be shut down of course) replacement for an AMD or Nvidia GPU.
GPUs do just fine on Linux (I don't know about Windows) with a system where slowly everything is from AMD (even with a secondary GPU from AMD). Nvidia with their drivers doesn't have that capability.
Without ReBAR the performance in games on Linux is hovering at about 70% of normal performance and has frequent dips in FPS. I had CSM enabled in the BIOS (for booting the OS without UEFI support) and it disables ReBAR. You better double check that you really have ReBAR enabled, because on my board it showed as enabled even though it wasn't (I found out from the kernel log that the Intel driver complains that it isn't).
Too bad about the RGB, which can only be controlled via the cable that has a connector on the side. I believe that may bother some people. The cable ends with an internal connector to the USB2.0 port on the MB. To me it seems like a last minute thing that was put in at the last minute, because it is normal with other manufacturers that the RGB settings are accessible without any extra cable normally just by the GPU being in the PCIe slot.
Worse support for monitoring utilities on Linux than for example with AMD GPUs, but it is slowly improving.
Smaller gap between MB and GPU. On my x570 board, which has active cooling, the GPU is quite tightly covered by the MB fan. That hasn't happened to me with AMD or Nvidia GPUs, or I've been lucky until now.
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Michal, Most 1
Rated 09/05/2023, variant Intel Arc A770 16G
Verified purchase
Decent performance
16GB VRAM
Ever improving controllers that add a lot of FPS, BUT
Unfortunately, I run the graphics with HDMI 2.1 in 4K 120Hz TV and there are about 5 times a day with various clacks and complete sound dropouts, when only a restart helps. Unfortunately it's getting too annoying and I've returned the graphics. (But for someone who uses it with a monitor without sound, it's fine).
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