Intel ARC Alchemist GPU's are REALLY BAD VALUE!

The company unveiled their arc GPUs last year, and since then, it seems like it's just been bad news after bad news. First, we thought it would release in the last quarter of last year but they announced them for Q1 2022. Then intel failed to deliver and readjusted the timeline for Q2 2022, then it turns out they weren’t planning on selling these things to everyone. Only to very specific Asian markets.

Then we heard that desktop variants would pop up in Q2, Q2 happened and all we got was the Arc A380, one of the low-end GPU’s, and once again, only in a very specific market. Now that we’re in Q3, according to intel, we should be seeing higher-end GPU’s. Gaming and workstation. Guess what, Nothing.

All we really are getting are benchmarks of the A380 or specific laptop models. Like for example, this week, new 3Dmark benchmarks for the A550M and A770M popped up.

In this leak, the a550M, which is supposed to be a mid-tier laptop GPU, has a graphics score of about 6000 points in the 3D mark time spy benchmark. That’s not a horrible score. It's about GTX 1660 levels of performance. But that GPU is already out the window. Do you want to know why? Because it's a terrible value proposition.

Let me explain, first, the benchmark. While 3D mark time spy can be a somewhat fine way of calculating relative gaming performance, the fact is that intel optimized for it and this result is just an inflated result. It says it here too. Rule-breaking driver optimizations. So we can expect that the regular driver will be worse.

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