The first in-game tests of the Intel Arc A380 desktop fall short of expectations

Days away from the launch of the first discrete desktop GPU in the house Intelthe Arc A380, the first tests have arrived in real gaming environments. Unfortunately, it seems that the results obtained of the card, which in the benchmarks appeared interesting as an alternative in the range entry-level of the market, are rather disappointing.

To publish the first comparative images was a content creator, Shenmedounengcesu Bilibili. One was used for the test GUNNIR Arc A380 6G combined with a Intel Core i5-12400 and a motherboard B660 equipped with memorie DDR4. The same configuration was also used for one AMD Radeon RX 6400 and one NVIDIA GTX 1650 which now has several years on his shoulders.

Intel’s solution uses the GPU ACM-G11 which offers a complete configuration of 8 Car-Core supported by 6GB of GDDR6 video memory. Memory is set to 15,5 Gbps for a bandwidth of 186 GB / swhile the graphics processor clock reaches 2000 MHz with a TBP of 75 W. In the case of the variant customized by GUNNIR, the clock reaches 2450 MHz for a TBP of 92 W.

In synthetic benchmarks, Intel’s proposal proved promising, scoring nearly double that of AMD’s RX 6400 in Port Royal. The problem arises, however, when the card faces real workloads in actual games.

For the comparison, the user used titles that exploit libraries DirectX 11, DirectX 12 e Vulkan. In particular, the games tested are: League of Legends, GTA V, PUBG, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 5 e Red Dead Redemption 2.

Well, unlike what Intel announced during the official presentationin which he emphasized a up to 25% higher value per yuan Compared to the Radeon RX 6400, the Arc A380 turned out to be clearly below on the performance front. The card, in fact, scored even lower than the GTX 1650 launched on the market in 2019.

It should be considered that this is the first discrete solution launched by Intel for the desktop sector and in general, the range of Arc GPUs, represents the first experiment for Intel in the sector of dedicated GPUs. It is therefore inevitable that the optimization take longer than competitors like NVIDIA or AMD. However, when it comes to the mobile segment, Intel’s video cards have been around since first quarter of the year and it seems that the released drivers still can’t make enough use of the card.

At this point, we can not help but wait and hope that the next updates will allow a real comparison with the competition that, for the moment, the A380 does not seem to be able to face.