I Lived With An Intel Arc GPU For A Month... 

Stalker wasn’t being buggy, it’s just that Arc’s unique architecture allowed you to fully experience the Monolith’s presence

Dawid being quicker than LTT here

The Intel card itself I think looks lovely, especially when it’s running. A+ to the design team

Perhaps the new drivers did some sort of firmware update to the card. That might persist even if the old drivers were re-installed.

Dawid has so many great one liners. Bipolar honeybadger is awesome.

Intel's drivers work more like firmware. Once installed, you cannot install an older version as it updates the card's firmware with each update. I'm not sure if they will change this.

Early adopter here. I noticed the performance boost with the newest driver. Many more games improved with it. Awesome! I know more updates will coming and I'm looking forward to see the full potential the Arc GPU will bring.

The price and performance for the GPU is really good for their first shot at this. I can’t wait to see their next generation of Arc GPU’s.

I hope some people stick with using these cards so that Intel can improve and MAYBE actually stick around. With how AMD and Nvidia (especially Nvidia, looking at you 4080) have been doing price wise recently, we really need Intel to improve, stick around, and compete.

Was using my a770 for about a month as well (just popped my 6800 back in last night). It honestly wasn't bad other than the fact that there was a big jump in performance I wasn't ready for. It worked really well at 1080p and okay at 1440p. I played through the MW2 campaign which I expected a little more performance out of but was more than playable. P5R ran fine despite being an older game though to be fair, it was built and specced for the PS4 so even my steam machine handles that game fine. GoW I did have to run with DXVK and even then, there were notable dips though overall the game was playable. I got through a good chunk of Spiderman Remastered and a few hours of Control both with RT. Witcher 3 Next Gen was fine after the beta intel patch they just released alongside the hotfix CDPR dropped. Overall it was fun though, i'd still stand unless you're a power user, I wouldn't get one. Its a lot better in one month but not quite mainstream anyone can get yet. If you care about RT, it is worth considering as I was running Control fine rendered at 1080 render resolution medium with the top two RT options on and was at 65-75fps on average. The Witcher was running at 80ish fps with RT ultra on (FSR2 Quality 1440p) and Spiderman was fine for 80-90fps with RT on (Native 1440p). My 6800 drops like a rock the second I turn on RT in Witcher and Control.

I was literally just finished recording my ARC review that has been a month and two weeks coming because of weird issues. I missed the fact the screen capture didn't have a hotkey, but I did notice there is no driver-based screen shot hotkey either like you have in Nvidia or AMD. Also the telemetry has all sorts of info ... but no frame rate, how crazy is that. I did use it as my main gaming card and in my usual games it just worked and other than it looked nicer than my 3070 through the tempered glass, I mostly forgot it was in there as well. Anyway, excellent video as always.

DXVK-async is the WAY better version of DXVK especially if you are using a Windows PC. The place the files go is always where the .exe file for the game is. I use DXVK-async for EVERY DX9 game I have and it resolves a lot of issues including the Borderlands GOTY Enhanced memory leak issue. In that game I run the ISLC program as well to cap the amount of system memory that can be used. Based on this vid there might be some long-term hope for intel as a GPU manufacturer which will be good for the market. Thanks for the vid Big D.

I been running a A380 on a older 3600 and it been working great for me. The frame rate keeps going up with each driver update.

This video had me physically in pain from laughing so hard. This man is hilarious and informative at the same time without even trying. Great stuff, man! You earned yourself a subscriber.

that was the most useful and efficient conclusion segment ever. tech youtubers take note.

Great catch on the glass!!

The side panel dropping is a nice subtle reference for the origin of your idea...

I"ve been living with an intel airplane (a380) since August, I don't regret it.

You always make my day better Dawid ! It cheers me up in sad times I love watching you video's happy Holidays to you and your Family !

Your channel is like Kitchen Nightmares. I simply cannot stop watching all of the videos

Love this channel... Dawid sounds like he just discovered Windows Vista, and all the bugs in it at the same time.

I have been using an arc a770 since its release date, I agree with everything here. It is a great experience with minor issues that get fixed weeks after you notice them. It has been a great card and it looks the best to.

I'm thinking maybe we should do more revisits as the drivers mature and fixes are made? (I'm a new owner of the A770 16 gb) Thanks for the video Dawid!

Hey Dawid. Cool video! What watch do you have btw?

I build these for Intel, mostly the pre-production stuff. We had such high hopes for these cards. The Enterprise stuff is pretty nuts though.

I sidegraded from the Vega 64 to the A770. I’m about a month in with the card and it’s been treating me well. I mainly swapped out of curiosity and haven’t been disappointed yet. My biggest complaint so far is that certain games (ex:Age of Empires IV) assume you’re using intel integrated graphics. Because of this quirk you’ll have to do a restart on initial setup of games because they default to the lowest possible settings. This is true even when the game runs fine maxed out.

Can't wait to hear your Broken Silicon appearance!

now its the best time to make a review again seeing that intel has been improving there drivers, coming out with consistent updates

I've wanted a good review on an A770 for a while and the fact you tested on a 3440 made me wish I could double subscribe :O

I whistled "woo" when I saw you nearly break the side panel. Whew! 😅

Just awesome video love watching the channel :)

G'day Dawid, Anna & Neko, I hope you all have a Wonderful Christmas plus a Safe & Happy New Year

That issue with no hotkey for screen capture is a huge issue. Most of my youtube channel relies on pressing my hockey assignment to record gaming.

Haha luv the humour on this channel,Great stuff.

Lol, I was watching your video when I was notified about this video 😂

Intel Arc GPUs really aren't that bad, with their new drivers they can now run the older games just fine, Arcs are really something to consider when building or upgrading a PC. I'm really excited to see how Arc GPUs go. The naming scheme is bad though, is it an Airbus or a GPU? But that seems to be consistent with Nvidia and AMD.

I believe that installing that driver update must have also installed new microcode to the GPU itself, which obviously stays even if you downgrade to a previous GPU driver

My A770 is fine. I don't notice the coil while anymore, I've only noticed like 3 instances of glitching graphics that fixed on restart. (I also used DDU to install the December update... But couldn't use the control software to update so I'm not happy with that)

Love the content mate 👍👍

S.T.A.L.K.E.R anomaly has had me obsessed, cool to see youre playing gamma although i think youd see less performance issues with anomaly i think it has less mods but it keeps all the good stuff while being a bit easier to run on most system . It does keep all the things like ironman mode and that mode where you like warp into a random ai when u die to carry on playing. Cant beat a bit of gopnik fallout though i love it.

love the blue highlights bro

Excited to see more intel gpu content!

In case nobody already postet it here: short keys for screencapturing is alt-- f5 to start and alt--f7 to end the recording by default ( Beta driver released on Dezember the 5th). Used it several times . :)

Nice watch. Gotta love those smaller case diameters!

Nice hope for the next gen arc gpu’s

I would guess the cause for the performance increase had to do with a firmware update that might have installed during the driver update. If that were the case, even if you did remove the updated drivers the card would still correct any board compatibility issues that might have been causing the problems in the first place. Just a thought.

I really love the look of the Arc 700 series. Very understated and classy.

Thanks for taking the time to do this, "it just works!" is pretty much all we ask for with hardware. Intel is new to the GPU game, I really hope that developers embrace it and in time it's just as reliable as the AMD and NVIDIA offerings because, at the end of the day, competition and choice benefits everyone.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't get the capture to work, though I tried on the A380. It would start but the screen would stutter like crazy like I had 1 fps 😂

hey Dawid, what do you use for your overlay?

Hello Dawid, I'm also using A770 as my main GPU right now, and I can confirm that its behavior is very sporadic, and those issues would usually get fixed after a reboot. I first got it in a system with Strix X670E-I and R7 7700X, and I was getting 50-60 fps in 1080P RDR2 and A Plague Tale Requiem. Notice that even in bios and GPU-Z it says I have rebar on, the Arc control center tells me no. Then I put it in my main system with Crosshair VIII X570 Dark Hero and R7 5800X3D, with new drivers, and I was getting 150+ fps with RT at 3440x1440P Cinametic settings in War Thunder, and 100+ fps in Monster Hunter Rise SB. But, it carries alma with it... Every time I wake up after around 6+ hrs not using the PC, the A770 either outputs a very yellow tinted screen(fixable after reboot), a 60 fps lock at the driver level(fixable after reboot), messes up my Realtek audio driver(fixable after reboot), mess up displaying of already saved pictures, or crash any game runs in D3D12 render(fixable after reboot and can no longer play any D12 game if don't do so). Also, in this X570 system, I used 3080, 2080Ti, and 6800XT before and currently running duo GPU with the A770 and 2080Ti, and aside from 2080Ti all those GPUs should benefit from rebar, but A770 doesn't. The same issues with the X670E-I board, even in Bios and GPU-Z they say rebar is on, Arc control refuses to believe it, and the performance does tank in games. I've already contacted Intel support about all these(since they are all AMD systems)

I thought I was the only one letting the warning label stick to the glass panel even 3 years after building the pc.

I guess it’s growing pains for Intel’s GPU. I’m still glad they threw their hat in the GPU ring (more competition is great for the consumer). They don’t have to swing in the deep end either (having expensive GPU’s). They can carve a nice market for them in the mid range (who knows if Nvidia is going lower than the 4070).

Arc has its moments I was thinking of dropping one in my media pc.

I have had my a770 for a few days now and today the pc had the no vga detected beeps, resaved bios where it changed csm to off (resize bar is on) and it cycled for a bit before booting to desktop. When i first installed it i had to unplug and replug in the hdmi and it worked. I am still in my 15 day return period for the store i bought it at so I should be able to exchange it for another if issues persist. The only game I have tried using the latest stable drivers (Mar 15 2023) was Destiny 2 where it works quite well at 1080p

Would you recommend if purchasing from in-store or online by adding their in-store product replacement plan (an extra 2 years)? Would it be worth it for an Arc A770 GPU or any GPU in general?

I to have googled high rez Jupiter and used that exact same pic as a screen saver. Very beautiful picture!

I would like to see these cards succeed. We badly need more competition in the GPU market.

Did the updated drivers also fix the water problem with Stalker or did that continue after? be nice to know if it was a driver issue or if the card just hates the water haha

Came for the GPU, stayed for the puns. Great work Dawid, and Merry Christmas 👍

Seeing my background picture inside your monitor kinda felt like meeting my future self that time travelled to the past/present or something like that..

Out of curiosity what was the fps for the games you were playing at 3440x1440?

Dawid I know Dota is easy to run but can you give us an idea of the 4k numbers? Did you use DX11 or Vulkan?

Will you try linux gaming on the Arc A770?

Did you try Print Screen for the capture?

for DXVK, i think you have residual dxvk dlls stuck in the system path, which DDU didn't mess with (if it did it would probably brick directx)

Resizable BAR I doubt would help performance on older games since they tend to not have big textures that would need the larger bandwidth that resizable bar gives it. Plus games have to be coded for resizable bar in mind, right? So having it enabled for a game that's too old to use it might slow performance?

Did you try ctl alt f5 to start capture? Then use clt alt f7 to end the capture process?

Hi Dawid. Could you make a future video of how to build a gaming PC from the ground up with useful information and tips. That would be greatly appreciated and I'm sure a lot of people would find it useful. Cheers.

Did you do Alt & Prt Srn? Just out of curiosity. That's where I would have started.

Dawid can you tell me what mousepad is that one with camo texture?

Could it be that the update effected the bios on the arc gpu? Maybe why the performance increase stayed depending on the drivers

I was gifted a 3080 but if I had to use my own money, I'd probably try an Arc A770. I really want there to be more competition in the graphics card space, especially with the Arc's price point.

I just want to wish ALL OF YOU a merry christmas from germany. Enjoy the days.

Love the mention of RGinHD. Steve (one of the lesser known Steves in the hardware media space) has a top quality channel that offers a different kind of content which is highly engaging and fun nonetheless.

It's a very pretty card, I hope they can become competitive. We need more competition in the gpu market, badly.

Hey dawid , cah you make a review on the Alienware m15 r7 ?

what do you use to see all the temps and performances while playing games

Did you have resizable bar enabled? Apparently that can make a very significant difference to performance with the ARC GPUs.

My A750 has been good so far, driver improvements coming fast also.

seeing the forest mentioned in a tech youtuber vid gave me a semi. Hype for SotF

Dawid:its fine Every other youtuber: DONT BUY IT YOU CANT PLAY SHIT

Hi Dawid! Can you do a video on the Acer Predator Orion 3000 gaming desktop? I'm not usually a pre-built pc guy, but in my opinion it is one of the best pre-builts out there.

Anyone else remember that old Nickelodeon gameshow Figure It Out? Something about the intonation of Dawid's amazingly well-contained internal meltdown midway through cuz of Arc's arc-ane screen capture process triggered recall lmao

I totally expected the gpu to do the dishes and fold the laundry if it was living with Dawid

1:39 what is the name of gpu?

8:43 did the new drivers install a new firmware to the card that applied on restart...? Otherwise I am also lost. Could be a windows update to some APIs who knows.

How did The Forest run for you? I haven't played it since I got my laptop with an A370M, but I've heard DirectX 9 performance is pretty poor, and I think The Forest is one of the few games I have running DX9

Does anyone know the program Dawid uses to get the cpu/gpu temps and utilization on the top left? I’m curious to see how my machine fairs

What is your air cooling system?

I saw the 3080 hybrid that the system usually has in it. Grabbed one of those in July for $799 from EVGA I’m so glad I didn’t wait

The gpu looks very slick in the pc

@6:10 through @6:47 is great. Your experience seems eerily similar to trying desperately to run games and some software on various Linux distros.

Dawid mentioning playing EFT twice, subconsciously building wipe hype

Dawid, you're funny af. Were you ever a fan of Top Gear UK? I think I see a little bit of JC in the way you deliver the humor and use ridiculous metaphors to describe things. It makes for some top notch content, thank you!

Maybe the new Driver fixed the way the Preshadergeneration is handled and unless you cleanly install the Game AND Driver (maybe even the system, I don't know where Shadercache is located) it still loads the better generated Shaders out of the Cache. Just for Example, Tiny tinas Wonderlands and Borderlands 3 generate new Shadercache after every gameupdate, which in my System took a bit of time since I played both directly after realease, so nearly every start was with an update of the game, thus new Shadercache generation. Also: I know I tend to unnecessarily put capital letters in words. It's just german grammar kicking in subconsciously. I'm too lazy to bother fixing that when posting on the net.

May I ask why you have that sticker on the glass of your computer case?

Dawid I just bought some BeQuiet gear for a new build based on your ad's, so makesure they know sponsorship works!

I Just love His sense of humor. He could be comedian without a problem!

im wondering if this card will work with steam vr, my underclocked rx 580 8g runs most games well but it also has steam vr support, with the a770 work well with steam vr?