Intel Arc A380 Slower Than GTX 1650, RX 6400 in Gaming Assessments

Final week, Intel launched the Arc A380, with merchandise initially accessible in China solely. As we speak, a number of Chinese language websites and social media customers publish their impartial third-party opinions. We have taken a better take a look at a video assessment printed by Bilibili consumer Shenmedounengce to see if there may be any perception to share earlier than we will get our personal A380 within the Tom’s {Hardware} labs. In short, Intel’s first Arc Alchemist desktop graphics card is not going to bowl you over, and curiously it did a lot better in artificial benchmarks than the suite of video games examined.

The Bilibili consumer’s take a look at platform was comparatively modest, which is a good selection given the goal market of the Arc A380. A Home windows 11 PC system based mostly round an Intel Core i5 12400, 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, and Asus B660M motherboard appears ample for supporting the likes of the brand new Arc A380 (the Gunnir branded mannequin, which seems to be the primary one to be launched). Intel’s new hope was pitted towards the next contenders in the identical system: a GTX 1650, RX 6400, RX 6500 XT, and RTX 3050.

In artificial checks by the Bilibili consumer, the Intel Arc A380 was pretty spectacular, beating out all rivals besides the RTX 3050 in Timespy and Port Royal, however falling again a bit to finest simply the GTX 1650 in Firestrike. Sadly, this marked the tip of the excellent news for these hoping for a powerful Intel Arc debut. Within the six video games examined at 1080p (League of Legends, GTA V, PUGB, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 5 and Purple Lifeless Redemption 2), Intel’s Arc A380 was constantly the poorest performer. Above, we have now shared a video screenshot of the detailed Purple Lifeless Redemption 2 efficiency comparability. This can be a pretty typical bar chart form throughout all of the video games. A abstract chart with all six video games is embedded under, lacking out on the a lot better efficiency supplied by the RX 6500 XT and RTX 3050.

With the efficiency comparisons above, it’s value wanting on the variations within the underlying applied sciences, as in our desk under.