Intel can beat AMD in some benchmarks, but not in games
Published: 22nd June 2022 | Source: Bilibili | Author: Mark Campbell
Intel's A380 fails to impress in early benchmarks
Intel's ARC A380 graphics card is now available in China, allowing independent reviewers to have a look at Intel's first ARC series discrete GPU. Tests include 3DMARK Port Royal, the ray tracing benchmark, 3DMARK Time Spy, and a collection of games that include League of Legends, Grand Theft Auto V, PUBG, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2.
In the game benchmarks below, which are presented in the order listed above, we can see that Intel's ARC A380 has failed to surpass the performance of AMD's Radeon RX 6400 and Nvidia's GT 1650, neither of which are considered powerful gaming graphics cards.
While it is worth remembering that Intel's ARC A380 should be the company's least powerful ARC A-series desktop graphics card, it is hard not to be disappointed by these results. In real gaming workloads, the performance of Intel's ARC A380 has fallen short of its AMD/Nvidia rivals.
In 3DMARK Time Spy, a Synthetic benchmark, Intel's ARC A380 fares better against is AMD and Nvidia counterparts. Intel is able to best AMD's RX 6500 XT here, but when real world gaming performance is below an RX 6400, it simply looks like Intel has optimised its drivers exceptionally well for the 3DMARK test suite, and that gaming performance has fallen behind. If only these 3DMARK results were representative of the GPU's gaming performance.
In 3DMARK Port Royal, Intel has delivered impressive levels of ray tracing performance. Yes, these performance levels are nothing compared to Nvidia's RTX 3050, but Intel has handily beaten AMD's RX 6400 and RX 6500 XT. That said, all three of these graphics cards are likely VRAM limited, as all of them have less than 8GB of VRAM, with the AMD GPUs having 4GB while the Intel A380 has 6GB.
Right now, the performance of Intel's ARC A380 graphics card is unimpressive. That said, things may change as Intel's GPU driver mature. We will know more when Intel's graphics cards are available in the West and we are able to test these graphics cards ourselves. Until then, these early Chinese benchmarks are all we have.
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