Overall, the software is cleanly laid out and provides a good amount of information, including the card's active power draw and usage specs. The Intel Arc A770 is surprisingly good given it's Intel's first attempt at a flagship discrete graphics card, but if you have room in your budget, the newer AMD RX 7700 XT might be a better option. Its flagship is sold under the name “Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition,” but from what Intel tells us, this will not truly be a limited-run card; it will continue to be sold for some time. I began working on computers owned by immediate family members and relatives when I was around 10 years old.

When set to "Balanced", XeSS turns out to be a game changer for the A770, getting it an average framerate of 66 fps (with an average minimum of 46 fps) at 1080p, an average of 51 fps (with an average minimum of 38 fps) at 1440p, and an average 33 fps (average minimum 26 fps) at 4K with ray tracing maxed out. While the 26 fps average minimum fps at 4K means it's really not playable at that resolution even with XeSS turned on, with settings tweaks, or more modest ray tracing, you could probably bring that up into the low to high 30s, making 4K games playable on this card with ray tracing turned on.The card is officially rated to pull just 225 watts, but these two power connectors, along with the motherboard slot, give the card access to a minimum of 300 watts of power. I've been with PCMag since October 2017, covering a wide range of topics, including consumer electronics, cybersecurity, social media, networking, and gaming. Create compelling content, powered by the first graphics card with support for all current leading media formats, and keep yourself up to date with the most advanced AV1 video encode capabilities. With its very new graphics card architecture, the Intel Arc A770 struggles with games that are running older APIs.

SSD was used as the only storage device in this system, with Windows 11 Pro installed on it with all of the latest Windows updates.This is a first for Intel unless you count the Intel i740 that launched back in the 1990s, and as such we don’t have a long list of architectural changes to go over. The RTX 4060 Ti outperforms the Intel Arc A770 at just about every turn, only faltering when it comes to 4K performance, due to its more restricted VRAM pool and memory bus. When we were poking through Intel’s Arc Control Center, we noticed the card’s GPU usage bouncing between 10% and 20%, with the power draw showing around 50 watts. We certainly wouldn’t consider the Intel Arc A770 a high-end graphics card; it doesn’t come close to competing with the likes of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 or AMD’s Radeon RX 6800. In essence, the design is also similar to the graphics found inside of Intel’s most recent processors, with the obvious exception that the tech has been scaled up for standalone use.

The biggest key change that we can see here being the addition of a dedicated memory controller for the graphics processor.What ever you've read, i am backing intel a bit, as i once ran, without knowing, the igpu of an intel cpu on game and noticed not much difference for ages. Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension.