Intel Arc A770 16GB Benchmarks - Worth It?

Is it worth considering the Intel Arc A770 if you're building a desktop computer in November 2023? Well, if you use your system a certain way and are comfortable with trouble shooting, then it may be an interesting piece of tech to keep an eye out for, or alternatively it may be a reason to buy a competitor's product...

The Intel Arc A770 is a performance segment graphics card launched as a part of their first generation, code-named Alchemist, of discrete graphics cards! Surprisingly though, Intel has been in the GPU business for decades and you have probably experienced one of their GPUs integrated into a CPU. By percentage of devices sold with Intel graphics, they account for the majority of graphics solutions sold per year- however can their mobile expertise translate to the high performance, high power budget desktop discrete market? Well... surprisingly yes and no...

Test System Specs:
- Intel Core i5-13600k, 5.5GHz-P, 4.0GHz-E
- Corsair H150i 360mm AIO
- Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Elite AX DDR4
- 64GB 3600MT/s G.Skill DDR4
- Intel Arc A770 16GB Sparkle Titan OC
- WDB SN770 1TB PCIe 4.0 for games
- Samsung 970 Evo 1TB PCIe 3.0 for OS/Boot
- 650W EVGA PSU
- Resizable BAR Turned On for Testing

A GPU is a separate bank of ALUs and FPUs, designed to offload heavily parallelizable calculations from the main CPU onto a dedicated chip. The Graphics Card refers to the entire sub-system, containing the PCB, Memory, and Cooling solution.

Building a Budget PC can be tough. Not only are GPUs and CPUs so incredibly expensive, but they can be hard to find on a budget... But, there are tips and tricks to finding you your dream Budget GPU, and pairing it with a CPU that will give you the performance you want!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Preface
1:02 Test System Specs
2:11 Apex Legends
3:35 Borderlands 3
4:42 Crysis Remastered
6:03 Counter Strike 2
7:26 Cyberpunk 2077
8:40 Fortnite
9:49 Modern Warfare 3
10:59 Warzone 2
12:26 Overwatch 2
13:54 Red Dead Redemption 2
15:08 Worth It?
16:57 Guinea Pig Cam

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[luizarthurbrito]

I swear if Intel keeps going I'll seriously consider them for my next gpu. Nvidia has become too expensive and amd aren't as value oriented as they once were.

[rangersmith]

Just bought an ARC A770 for $280 and installed it into a system that will mostly be used to teach myself Resolve and OBS. So far, so good. I suspect that driver support will keep getting better because Intel has the resources to maintain such a focus.

[wagnonforcolorado]

A lot of content creators and production users like the 16GB of VRAM on a wide memory bus. The 770 does cater to a specific market that AMD and Nvidia have ignored. Intel's driver development is also helping with their iGPU drivers. Future looks positive for Intel keeping up on their ARC line.

[snakedude]

I have the exact same version of the A770 you have and I love it, sniped for 279$ USD new for my secondary system, intel has come a very very long way in terms of drivers and the instability seems to be fixed for the most part. In terms of performance the card is still all over the place, sometimes losing to a 3060, to sometimes mopping the floor with a 4060Ti. Either way I think this card will age like fine wine and over the next 4-5 months it’ll get more consistent

[ChipboardDev]

I've got the A750, it hasn't let me down!

[the_desert_dweller]

I just recently switched to a INTEL LIMITED EDITION A770 16GB after my 3080 died. even though the framerate's weren't crazy fast, it runs butter smooth, and Personally I like the way Intel renders the colors in COD.

[Nerwosol]

have you unlocked the resizable bar function? I heard that if it is disabled, the card loses a lot of performance

[yasunakaikumi]

I got my A770 for around 250 here in Japan and that 16GB is worth every penny especially for the future games that needs more than 8GB. for competitive games you dont need that much since most of those are optimized for 8GB or lower specs, since AAA and AA single games will be aimed with PS5/XBSX ram in mind 16GB is definitely the way to go if you want to use more geometry and texture data for those sweet visuals. also for those who are starting to use Blender on making 3D stuff or just Davinci Resolve, it's quite fast for what it is. so if you can spot an under 300 bucks in the wild id say it's a steal.

[GroundGame.]

Such an exotic 3rd contender card. I've seen a few at my microcenter here. Keep up the good work as always. Always love the die breakdowns.

[ovemalmstrom]

I believe that many gamers buying the Arc cards do it so to support the new platform, and be there to se it evolve and grow, not max out performance, gaming heroes in a way!

[IntelArcTesting]

It all depends on the price. In my country A750 is €250 and A770 is €399. Performance uplift is like 5% at most.

[Punkk]

A770 is constantly on sale for 250-260 so it’s better for the price to performance than the 4060

[AotO_DJ]

You are not using XeSS. You should be more knowledgable in the area of electronics my friend… XeSS literally a blessing to this already powerful GPU.

Edit: You know about XeSS, but you didn’t show the differences with XeSS. These are only native settings.

[domepop]

Your standards are a bit weird, what is a acceptable frame rate. Seems like anything under 200 fps at 1440p is not playable in your opinion

[l.i.archer]

I had issues 3 months ago with the Arc A770 16GB in my PC, and had to swap my RTX 3070 Ti back into it. This Sunday, I actually decided to fix my PC by reinstalling the Arc A770 and resetting my Windows 10 22H2, with a clean install of the Intel drivers. Reinstalled Halo MCC and Infinite, and FPS maxxes out at my monitor's 165 Hz frequency in both titles with smooth, and very playable graphics. I'm really loving my ASRock Phantom Gaming card paired with a Ryzen 7 5800X, and 64 GB of 3200 MT/s 16CL RAM, now. The latest Heaven Benchmark tonight also yielded a 361 FPS max, and 209 FPS average framerate, and temperatures never went above 74*C. Now, I'm thinking of upgrading to a 5800X3D CPU for this PC.

[easydayez]

Works perfectly with emulators at least the arc a750 from my experience

[Mr-Clark]

I just bought the A770 Sparkle and waiting for delivery. Hoping the experience is good. 🤞🏻

[user]

intel gpu can spot game devs flaws in the code when it reveal any lower 1%lows when highs can go very high 300 fps....crysis is well made game in remaster version than original version due to devs don't make mistake in making maps from their tools of doing maps in one pass vs avg dev would patch the map by multiple pass from their texture editor than redo whole map from scracth that devs don't want to do again so that idea would result fps hit in certain spot on the map if user find it from gpu rendering ...devs are getting super lazy as this late ...either time constraints and low pay

[kahaneck]

Apex Legends is also available in DX12. Borderlands 3 is a UE4 game, disable texture streaming and the stuttering will go away.

[lorsheckmolseh]

A770 has a 256-bit bus (560 GB/s), 16 GB, what should make it a good tad faster than the castrated 4060 or 7600 only connected by 128 bits and 8x PCI-E. Raytracing-capabilities are outstanding in its class. The high power draw easily can be reduced to around 140W by undervolting, maxclock set to 2100MHz and usage of Optimus (video out over motherboard), what costs around 15-20% performance. The driver improvements in 1 year were massive and there is still a good portion of extra power to expect by more optimization.