This was awesome! Great work and thanks for all the feedback and insights into what you experienced. +Subscribed!

I can’t wait till they really refine their drivers. Their upcoming iGPU’s seem promising.

Linus: We're doing the 30 day AMD GPU challenge. Also Linus: Yeah, we won't be doing a video on this. We forgot we had the GPUs installed. Everything ran fine. We don't need to tell anyone.

I bought an A750 and have loved the experience. $200 beats the more expensive 6600XT and 3060, and has more features like AV1, XeSS, XMX cores, better encoding, etc. Highly recommend Intel Arc

You know battle mage is going to be a big deal when there's rumors that Nvidia is pressuring their partners to not make cards for them

The Fortnite results make me think Intel might be optimizing hard for UE5, knowing nearly every game will use it going forward. Plus it's a DX12 game which Arc does best with.

I've got the Intel Arc a750, and really like it. I had big problems with the drivers when I first got it about 4 months ago, but with the latest drivers it's running like a champ now. I do very little gaming, and use the a750 mainly for normal daily use and encoding videos, and for that it's a great GPU for me.

With regards to your game recording issues, it most certainly does happen on Nvidia GPUs. The Twitch streamer Nethesem experienced it when streaming Jedi Survivor with his 3080 Ti. He fixed it by adding a second GPU (a GTX 1060 IIRC) to handle the recording and streaming. I do hope you have yet to return the A770 because you're missing a treat if you don't try it at 4k medium settings. FWIW I have an A770 and a RTX 4090 (and a 3090).

Edit; it's been fixed. The Halo infinite situation is genuinely upsetting, because before season 4 when Halo broke compatibility w/ Arc, it actually performed really really well. On the biggest Big Team Battle map I was getting frame rates north of 110 FPS; that's more than what my friend can get with his 6700 XT.

Great video. Thanks for taking the time to make this and do such an extensive testing.

Been using my A770 for just about everything since I bought it in December. Only game I've ever had a problem with is emulating totk, hard crashes after some time. Been using the card between my 4k tv and my 1080p monitor. Loving it fr, it is a great upgrade from my GTX 1060! Definitely agree that there are better gaming cards though, I do a lot more than gaming, so I can't complain!

My main issue for getting an arc card IS If they are going to stay in This segment. We gotta remenber This is not the First time Intel makes GPUs. If battlemage actualy comes them we can have a talk. The worst would be buying It And It gets discontinued, specialy If you live in third world countries where the entry level gpu is already expensive as fuck. L live in Brazil btw.

Bro, continua haciendo estos geniales videos. E visto a varios youtubers cuanto empezaban con menos de 10k subs y ahora estan en 3m+ subs y tu me das la misma sensacion de genialidad. Sigue asi y llegara lejos :)

Have been using an a380 since launch. The November driver updates fixed the last of my issues in use and a more recent update for the annoying driver console launch needing administrator permissions. What will make or break Arc is 3rd party software support. Programs that exclusively use nVidia/cuda for speed enhancements will continue to perpetuate nVidia dominance in the productivity arena. I expect more support for Arc features once the tGpu elements start reaching developers in meteor lake laptops. The abundance of availability it a great incentive to incorporate features.

I was a day one adopter of the A770 (the same one you tested). Things were rough until about a few months ago, but now it's smooth sailing on Windows and Linux. The main issue I've had is soft locks when really pushing the video card. I think it's an overheating-related thing since this card runs very hot to the touch. Also, I play CS:GO competitively, and when I run it without a frame cap, I get over 1000 FPS, which seems to be causing some hitching. I have to limit it to something more reasonable, like 500 FPS.

If you use Arc with a Intel onboard graphics you can get a 40% increase encoding through Deep Link Hyper Encode. That is one of the reasons I went with Intel.

Nice video , nice calm and relaxed explanations on your experience with the a770 , unlike a lot of other videos like warching the auctioneer on storage wars , waffling on at 100 miles an hour haha .

quick point for the shader compilation part on TLOU. having written shaders myself (OpenGL for a simple 3D renderer) i can guarantee you the CPU is the one doing the compilation. the shaders are run on the GPU when needed in games afterwards

Good job, young man! You're 21 and already making videos this good. Keep it up!

thanks vex for the insight, time, and dedication. followed your vids on av1 for a while and now this moment and subbed! as a proud owner of a750 I salute you. 😊 and Brian for lending the a770 for testing! NB:I recorded & exported 5 hr. ish long gameplay 1080p 60hz AV1 6K BitR around 2 hrs. ❤ not sure if its too long but pretty decent to me.

I would say both XeSS and FSR has taken an open approach, they are both open source and can work on other hardware than their own. It would be interesting if XeSS could use dedicated AI cores in AMD and Nvidia GPUs instead of the less performing method they are using now.

Glad somebody finally put together a video like this. Keeping my fingers crossed for inte gpul lineup

been using an a750 (specifically for gaming) and it has been running like a champ. i don’t think i’ve had a game crash on me yet at all, and only a few run poorly.

I own a bunch of these and use it in servers for industrial imaging. They do perform good and the compatibility with serious applications is also good out of the box.

A770 16GB vs 4060Ti 16GB on PCIE 3 would be intresting, so would overclocking A750 vs 7600 vs 4060 be too.

i appreciate the journalism work documenting this Vex! it means a lot for the PC community. this wont go unnoticed

After a month's research, I went with *AM4 5600X + 6700 XT* PC Build. This is my first PC build. I was very tempted by Intel's 1st gen GPUs given their _on paper_ price to performance ratio. Alongside new games, I also wanted to play a lot of DX9 games which I missed out on the last decade or so. So it was sad to see Intel's performance on DX9 or generally older games. I think Battlemage will be great and its a great thing that once I upgrade my GPU in future, I'll have a lot of options including Intel's offering.

I'm hoping they get those bugs sorted out. I do need to upgrade, especially since I'm disabled and the only way I have to make enough $ to buy groceries is through using my computer for certain things (not really GPU related most of the time, but I've done some freelance photography/editing here and there), so I need to keep my computer up and running, and it's currently running a 1650 Super. I've considered Intel, but I need whatever I buy to just work. Even though I can troubleshoot a bit, I often lack the energy to do so...my pain levels put me in a place where I don't have the patience to sit here and force my computer to do the job it should just do automatically, so consistent bugs are a dealbreaker for me. Still, I like how much they have improved and if they can get most of it sorted out by Battlemage, then maybe I can consider one then...maybe I'll just find a cheap 6650xt that will be "good enough" for 2 or 3 years and see if any of these companies will care about consumers by then and release a decent card at a reasonable price? idk..thanks for the video.

I really enjoy your content my friend! You're spot on with basically everything you say and I agree that quality AI-upscaling are the future as-well as more advanced tech like hardware based acceleration in ray tracing. I like what Intel is doing for sure!! Keep the great content coming and I will absolutely keep watching ^^

I've actually had issues with DaVinci Resolve Studio and some recording/ streaming with Nvidia this year on my RTX 3090 T.I Fe card but it usually happens when we get a new driver update for a new 40 series card and FYI you should see a LOT Better performance with a system that has resizable bar enabled. I'll let you know when my Arc A770 OC arrives next week. My current system is running an AMD Ryzen 5900x with Resizable Bar enabled. and your computer case looks an awful lot like a cooler master case I have an older build in :P

Very good presentaion. Laying it out there for us to see. Looking forward to see that Intel can come up with in the future. It's really looks like they are trying.

Great video and Secondary has an A770 16GB and is used as a typical single display gaming only machine . One driver didn't like indie unity engine games (crashes); but besides a few visual bugs last year, that's it for issues. Played countless dozen games on it with zero issues, old games with DXVK also run great. XeSS is functionally the same as DLSS2 when used on ARC gpus. Daily a RTX 3080 so I know. If considering ARC; (performance has improved ALOT even in the last 6 months): 1. Motherboard under 6 years old. 2. Bios under 2 years old. 3. Modern monitor too. Going by support threads, most having issues are trying to use pro software, or have thrift shop monitors and/or old DDR3 era computers.

Thank you so much this is so help full, I'm a big AMD fan boy been using them for ever started with the old ATI so over 30 years, but yyppeee i just bought a new ARC a770 16gb. So again thank so much.

It’s phenomenal how far Intel graphics have come back like 10 years ago you couldn’t even get 30 fps on intel graphics but now on arc you can get fps in the 100s

I recently switched to the A750 and I am really enjoying AV1 encoding for streaming and recording.

Hey guys its that crazy guy with the sonic icon who won't shut up about ARC again. Rumor going around is, Nvidia is preventing AIB's from working with intel. Theyre withholding partners from making cards with both them and intel. If you care about cheap gaming parts, you should reach out to nvidia and tell them to shove it. So battle mage will have more AIB partners than just Acer. Have a good day!

Thx for the 30 Day Experience man. Intel has been doing great with there GPU Drivers. Hopefully they could be the next Big Bang for the buck GPU’s

Interesting, great job on the video! Probably not building a new system anytime soon but nice to see there could be a third viable option by then. Though any hard locks or maybe even blue screens can be concerning. With GPUs I'm especially interested in encode and decode of video which I do more than gaming. Still on a 1060 6gb so probably won't touch anything under 12GB whenever the time comes. 😄 We will also see if Battle Mage has a good price to performance ratio like their first generation. Arc seems like a special case and its 256 bit memory bus and 16GB version.

Good video, Intel definitely have an opportunity for gains in the GPU space provided they continue the driver improvements and software updates. Specifically I can confirm that both Halo MCC and Halo infinite launch issues have been fixed with the latest beta driver update. To be noted that some games like Halo infinite are poorly optimised by the developers 343.

Thank you for showing me what GPU to buy next. I know you're gonna be massive one day. Like really massive.

Glad to see someone is thorough and non-biased when it comes to reviews. It's a breath of fresh air that you're not dull (Linus) either. Reminds me of Gamers Nexus. Great Job, Subscribed!

I can not express just how happy and excited I was when I heard Intel was getting into the gaming GPU space. It was a long time coming and I had been expecting it for over a decade. They will become the third leg of a truely competitive market finally.

Thank you for your work. Your effort is paramount in getting the information to the people. Looking forward to the future of the GPU market. Battlemage gonna change the game. Nvidia already allegedly mad about it. And thank you Brian for providing the product.

Vex, first time I write a comment to you ... 1st of all .... great channel mate!!! A breath of fresh air in the IT YT channels. All other channels have more "bling" but they are almost all biased in some way or form. Keep the good work mate and please put your case in a table beside you ;)

I built a new high end gaming pc 6 months ago. I sank so much money into it I got tired of spending so I bought a A770 to use until I bought a 4090. I got my 4090 coming today, but I used the arc for about 6 or 7 months and I loved it. The card was great for the price point! And I would have used it for much longer if it was able to handle my ultra wide screen 240hertz. I love the design and I will keep it around because I love this little champ.

The a770 is now running pretty close to the 4060. The a770 is within 2%. The a770 occasionally outperforms the 4060 in some games. The only issue I’ve ran into with my predator bifrost a770 is the fact that it doesn’t allow me to change my system refresh rate to max out my monitor (making a custom refresh rate). It’s just not as clean of a process as the Nvidia way of making a custom resolution. I have a 165hz monitor and windows only lets me go to 144hz. I got a custom piece of software to do make a custom one but I was only able to push it up to 155hz for some reason. I quit trying to get those 10hz more because tbh I was satisfied with 155hz for the most part. Overall I haven’t experienced any bugs or glitches with the card. On mostly medium settings with epic view distance on fortnite I’m getting crazy fps up into the 350’s usually resting around the 290 fps on average when looking into the distance. Overall pretty stable experience. Also this is the only gpu that costs $350 or less that offers decent rgb lighting (predator bifrost a770 OC by acer)

Bought a A750 when it was on sale as I was looking forever to upgrade my 1070 Ti to something newer but was waiting for the prices to come down which never happened and Intel was the only option I saw where price vs performance was meeting my expectations and I'm glad I did. I've been working with suprisingly few issues, especially loving the constant driver updates that tend to improve random games quite significantly in some cases. I'm looking forward to Battlemage now and probably will pick up the top SKU this time as A750 was a bit more of a evaluation purchase and now that Intel has won me over I happily pay a bit more next time.

Very interesting and thought provoking review! I think two things will matter the most for intel soon, and it's not this first gen... It'll be with Battlemage. - One, the performance has to be there. That is the majority of the beginning, middle and end of the conversation for GPUs. (Related is it has to be decent price for the performance, but maybe that's obvious.) A new gen with new chips is a chance to change the performance numbers in a big way, and they should use it. (Sidebar: Maybe it's dumb since so few people buy top end, but I think they need a "halo" product to compete with 4070, 4080 for performance. Just to show they can. People naively or wishful-thinking transfer their feelings about the halo product onto the lower-end products. That's why they need it, IMO. It's irrational, but that's marketing for you.) - The other big thing is, they're still proving themselves for quality and eyes will be on them, whether fair or not (it's a new product line, I think it's justified). Quality needs to keep going up up up for the drivers and software ecosystem integration. If they can nail power efficiency, heat, low idle consumption, rock solid encoder smoothness, least crashes possible, all the software integrations like OBS, DaVinci, Premiere, etc, all the smaller things, that will cover more bases of "quality." Bonus for intel would be more XeSS adoption, since it seems to be keeping up okay with DLSS (not a trivial thing!!). Something to look out for: AMD has invested a lot in AI chips the past few years. Will they get an AI solution baked in and finally use it for a better upscaler??? Can they use it to enhance their encoders??? Catch up to NVidia????!?!?!? Time will tell for AMD's next (or next-next) gen... Lastly, on a bit if a tangent, something people aren't talking about much: Arc (actually Xe) low-power variant is going to be the new iGPUs. Will intel's iGPUs suddenly be competing with AMD's APUs? Outperforming them? Or does the lower wattage and die size (read: cut down perf and features?) make them not exciting? The potential there is really really huge IMO, but the potential for a let down is equally as big. It could just be a light bump over UHD iGPUs. I'm personally very excited to see what happens with the iGPUs in Metor Lake and then Arrow Lake (2024), Lunar Lake, etc... Lots to think about, and I hope it shakes up the GPU space for the better.

My feeling about the drivers now are that we will see huge progress on pairing with INTEL CPU before the launch of Battlemage. So some of the short comings might fix themselves pretty soon. Lot of talk now that Battlemage might actually match 4090 for only 225W. That sound crazy but if that is pairing the CPU fully and lot more then maybe that is all you need for the GPU. The point I think is INTEL beats the competition with lot less FPS but clean and perfect where 40FPS can be better than 120FPS in some games.

16:21 - holy smokes you've had a decent experience with Arc on PCIE3 that's crazy man, that's the highlight of this video

Great review! [subscribed] What's your opinion using an Arc 750 in a 3D CAD Workstation build [i5 12the gen, either a 12400 or 12600]???

Depends on your budget, but have you considered getting an external capture box? Slap a v30 or v60 SD card in it, plug it in like a second monitor and you get 4K fluidly-recorded loveliness that you can then do whatever you want with, regardless of graphics card or drivers. I use an Elgato 4K60 S+, but there's other, possibly cheaper options.

I was torn over getting the intel arc 770 over the 4060. I'm not using it to game but rather encode, decode, and transcode AV1 as soon as programs like Handbrake once its supported. I know OBS does but I want to transcode all my media to AV1 like movies and shows to save on hard drive space. I have a 3080 Ti for gaming so the 8GB model 4060 doesn't bother me.

It’s interesting that you chose to use the rx 6700 non XT for this comparison because that is the desktop gpu that is most analogous to the gpu in the PS5.

Hey nicely done yea I too Want to pick up an ARC770 LE some day nice collectors item as well :) Many thanks for sharing this with us :)

5min before I watched your amd GPU video, & searched vex Intel arc, & u uploaded before 10min 😂

Thanks dude. Thanks Brian. Great vid.

I bought the A770 LE 16gb at launch just because I was curious, wanted to play around with it for fun and personally I think its the best looking GPU on the market right now. Since then I've swapped it in and out a couple of times. The very first drivers were pretty bad but I noticed it getting better and better with the newer drivers. The last time I pulled my 4090 (that I bought used for $200 under MSRP) out and dropped in the A770 in about a month ago. Obviously there is a huge performance difference in the numbers. But in realty, it has been doing what I need it to do and I haven't felt like I needed to go back to my 4090 to have a good time. That being said, Its worthwhile to note that I don't use my GPU for anything other than gaming so I cant attest to streaming or editing workloads. Running triple monitors. Two 32" 1440p 144Hz monitors and a third 1080p monitor for watching casual videos while I'm gaming. I like my A770 and I plan to try Battlemage when it comes out also.

That 980 Pro is also not stretching its legs on a B350 and will be limited in certain situations. My 990 Pro still performs better than the 970 Evo Plus in a 3.0 4x slot so its useful but the 4.0 slot makes the raw throughput 2x as fast. IOPS went up about 20-25%. Good to see ARC is doing quite ok. I wonder what battle mage will do and if they still dare to release a GPU the size of the A770. Because lets not forget the Die size and power usage difference between the A770 and the RX6700 or better yet its fully enabled RX6700 XT brother. 406mm2 vs only 335mm2! thats a major difference in production cost. And the RX6700XT and RX6750 XT are quite a bit faster than the RX6700. The RX6700 is using about 15-20% less power compared to the A770 so in the long run it will be even cheaper because of the electricity bill. So yes its not bad but there are some things that still need improvement.

You are making really good videos, keep the good work...

This was a really interesting and informative video thanks.

I've been running an A750 since shortly after launch launch and it has been hit or miss for me. You see, I am running linux (Fedora), and that has complicated things. When the cards were new, things were kind of tricky to get running, but that has been cleared up. Performance is good in Linux with the open source drivers, and they are actively developed. My main issue has been that a key feature required to run some DX12 games (sparse residency) is not implemented. This makes an ever growing list of modern games unrunnable. They are looking to sunset the current driver and move to a freshly written one that should support this feature, but that is in development still and as far as I know that driver will not support HuC for DG2 cards. I got the card as a novelty, to tinker with and because I cannot believe how much new AMD and Nvidea cards cost, so I am not really disappointed. However, it is not as clean a story as the improvements to windows drivers. Performance updates keep coming through.

i bought my first pc with i3-12100F + Arc A750 just 4 months ago and the Driver Updates are making my editing Flow so much faster!!!, i was concerned about my decision and that i should've gone for the RTX 3060 since their drivers are more stable but boy i dont regret having this slick baby running with a stock cooler in this hot atmosphere rendering my 40GB project within 8 minutes!!!, and btw if you use The AV1 it'll shrink the size to 10GB but i love to go the casual OBS way.

What do you think about this GFX card for strictly streaming, recording and editing? I’m trying to consider buying for that reason only

Does the 7900xtx have any issues on pcie gen 3? Still rocking a b450 and curious if its worth a motherboard swap before a big gpu upgrade

Thank you for your efforts! 👍♥

very nice & all, that it games ; But ! -how well does it render in Blender ?

i love your videos and giving me open thought to upgrade. i running a ryzen 5 5600x with a rtx 3060 12GB. i think my cpu has one more lifespan for another gpu upgrade. so im trying to decide should i get rx 7700 or the new battlemage gpu. you should make a video on this. So hopefully you read my comment and act upon on my suggestion🙂.

Good job in working through an entire month and recording your experience Vex. I'd argue that AMD are actually providing the greatest competitive push to upscaling with their Open Source approach, as it can be used by every GPU, meaning that the propreitry software of nVidia and Intel has to be maintained and developed to stay meaningful. So if you think the GPU market is bad now, imagine how worse it would be without AMD pushing an upscaler that can be used by everone. That's why I don't like all the "dumping" on FSR, not because of it's performance, or lack of, but because of it's pressure to keep the propreitry software more "honest" and the option for it to be developed outside of AMD and across all platforms of games because it's Open Source. Of course AMD could also go propreitry with FSR and tie it to their CPU development. I'm glad they haven't, but if people keep dumping on FSR without seeing the bigger picture I can see a point where they say screw it, let's bring it in-house and tie it down as propreitry software, as we're not getting any marketing benefit by keeping it Open Source. As for the blocking of other upscalers on their sponsored game titles, I haven't seen any developer come out saying that's true, but I've seen reports where some say it isn't. Poor communication as always with AMD. Let's see how true or not it may be. At least they are not doing another nVidia manipulation with their AIB partnership programme v2 shennanigans. What always baffled me with ARC was that DX is an Intel tech, so how could they screw it up so badly at the start?

In Bangladesh a750(founders edition)is around 290 doller and a770 is around 380 doller so which one is best? I can buy the a770 by cost cutting other components

I don't see Nvidia staying 76% of the market share honestly, especially with how poorly the 4000s series are doing. The real question is who will gain the most out of that - Intel or AMD?

Kinda thinking about upgrading my 730GT in my Gaming Server with that A750 just to be safe for ingame Server Settings and for Spectator Recording. But I don't know how good it runs in DCS World and Conan Exiles yet. Might buy a Nvidia 2050 or 2060 used instead... Love trying new stuff and only running Intel Systems for 2 decades, so I might give this thing a chance. Server runs 1080 res only. What would you say? Does it suck a lot of Watt's?

The thumbnail was amazing lol, but it is finally nice to see amd and nvidia have competition.

I believe that crash on 6/22 mentioned at 12:40 is a windows thing, my windows install used to do that a LOT before I wiped it, and what you seem to be describing seems like exactly what happens when explorer.exe crashes without being restarted. The taskbar will go away, but I'm not sure what the background thing is about. However when that happens any windows you have open at the moment will stay open, but you won't be able to do anything related to the task bar until you restart.

Great video as always!

I bought a a750 for my old pc and it's been pretty stable other than for the driver installations blue screening on windows 11. Tried ddu and a few other things. Every time it gets to the arc control installation it bsods. It is on a old ryzen 1600 so no rebar is possible so not to sure if it's that. Maybe worth testing with my ryzen 5700x

Can u activate freesync on your monitor with an Intel video card?

I have an intel Arc A750, not my main GPU, but I bought it, because it was interesting. I tried out 9 games with a lot of settings. I found out, that I couldn't play Control on DirectX12. I got into the main menu, but it crashed, when i tried to load the game. And Borderland 3 was really slow and while using DirectX12 and it got way better, when I used DirectX11. And I had PCIe 5.0 on AM5

ARC A770 has 16 GB of VRAM, atleast the limited edition one which I think will still be made by third party manufacturers (unless Nvidia forces them to stop creating more Arc GPU's, ALLEGEDLY.) ARC A750 has 8 GB. The choice is not so black and white, that extra 8 GB of VRAM in Arc A770 is something to consider if you play AAA games nowadays. I personally lean more to the side of Arc A770 since they basically give out the extra VRAM for free considering what Nvidia did with the RTX 4060 Ti.

I have an Intel GPU as well. Games always get random stutters (Example: 14:20) and eventually after a few seconds, the game you're playing will crash. It is really annoying.

Oddly enough, if you look at the upscaling comparisons in this video FSR is closer to the source than XeSS here and there. Especially the vertical text on the building at 6:18 in the video, which is pretty much butchered by XeSS, but not by FSR. Surprising to me. I have an A770 so obviously I want the hardware ML solution to be better - full stop. So there is work to be done here to improve XeSS, just like the rest of the software on top of the hardware. At the same time though, DLSS also introduces artifacts here and there even though they have had an enormous head start over the other teams. And the XeSS implementation, like DLSS, is subject to each individual game's implementation of it, so the results will be more or less advantageous, as in over / under, a good quality regular upscaler. Anyways, purchasing my A770 is still much more exciting for me than any other graphics card I've had, since it's the origin of a completely new product and the progression it has and will have; I'm continuously looking forward to seeing the next advancement.

I picked up the ASRock Phantom Gaming Arc A770 16GB graphics card for $299.99 (pre-tax) from MicroCenter a week ago. I played Halo MCC and Infinite on my 5800X PC, and both games ran flawlessly. The drivers are getting better and better, and I predict this 16GB card will be on par with an RTX 4070 in the near future, and at half the price. I can't wait to see what BattleMage brings.

What are the other system specs? Sorry if I missed it

15:38 This is totally because of the resizable bar. I thought it was on because it was for my rx580, but the a770 required a bios update. Played games at 4k60 just fine without it, but literally could not record anything. Since updating the mb, it has been capturing the best 4k60 hdr i have ever seen

I can't wait to see what Battlemage brings to the table. I'm definitely switching to Intel. I want Intel to do well. I've always wanted an all Intel PC!

sounds like the right time to get one when it comes to concerns about its drivers

I've been using the iGPU on my i7-10700k for a few months now after selling all my GPU, I haven't missed gaming. I keep thinking about a new GPU and an A770 8GB can be had for about $250 here.

4060 vs a770?

I actually had the a750 until I upgraded to a 6950xt and Intel is getting so good so fast that I think it won’t be long until they actually put some pressure on amd to make good products.

I have the A750 in a PCIe 4.0 system, the encoder issue is much less common, but still happens sometimes. BUT, I have less (basically zero in the games I play) performance and stutter issues in PCIe 4.0 vs 3.0 FYI: paid 199 USD in a ASRock A750

when upgrade my GPU ... i had choice between a 3060 TI and intel 770 but i got not fast enought and all intel got sold out but ... like a couple of month i got driver update isues.... A LOTS... in AA title like MW2, Fortnite, Escape from Tarkov, i got somes DLSS isues like crash out FREEZ and BLUE screen.... i got a moment of multiple monts a .01% low drop to like under 12 FPS on SOMES games... like if NOTHING to do with a RTX 3060 ti ... at a moment i put it away and get better performance on 1050TI not on top FPS but in 1% low is wath i'm loking at... everybody should not care the 400FPS if the 1%los is like under 25 game still shuttering anyway Thanks for you video!! for the evolution of the card!! the mind of the company evolution !! AND for all the time you take to make all this work !!!

Just ordered my i5 13500 with arc a750 combo. Really looking forward to it especially upgrading from Ryzen 1700 and 1650 super 😊

You should also test minecraft java with RT (Seus PTGI) looks much better than mc bedrock with rt

Intel is gonna do whats called a "Ryzen move". Solid in value, but lagging behind. Then close the distance and refine over time.

mmmmm that short military cut bro... does wonders indeed

I played a long time gw2 and used dx9 to dx12 converter but now the game have dx 11 build in the game, remmember when I started gw2 and had 60fps with r5-1600x clocked 4.2Ghz and now at +250fps avg at r7-5800x3d

Can't wait to see what kind of beast Battlemage will be =)

I took a chance that the drivers would get better. They have and things have been good. I really only play World of Warships at 1440p. The only time I have any kind of problem is when I have a video going on my second monitor during a game it will crash my system. Otherwise it's been smooth sailing!

This was a great video. I want to get one of these Intel cards.

It's awesome to see Intel doing shockingly well on their first attempt with graphics cards! Unfortunately, it's not for me - I'm a games preservation enthusiast, and while DXVK is a lifesaver, it's a band aid at best. It gets you more stability, but the 1% lows are still a problem. It's tempting tho. ESPECIALLY the encoder, wonder if running an A380 for just the encoding alongside another GPU is worth it? Probably not given the headaches with conflicting graphics drivers, but still, cool to think about. Awesome video Vex :) Keep it up!