Thread 106502649

What's the verdict? How good are these and how bad? What do they do that nVidia and AMD don't? Use case?

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They provide a much needed third options. MSRP was at the right spot for good value. So they quickly sold out and got scalped. They aren’t a good value at scalper prices. They really aren’t doing anything more that the competition can’t. They merely exist as a promising competition. Hopefully, Intel keeps investing and perfecting the technology instead of abandoning it.

>>106502649 (OP)

i seriously could use some money and interested testing in linux environment assuming 6x2 power

>>106502649 (OP)
I got an Arc750 for ~180€. It's alright.
2% userbase means it's not much of a priority for most game devs, I suppose. The cooling solution on the earlier Sparkle models is horrible.

Quite often the weak DX9/DX10 perfomance can be improved with DXVK btw.

>>106502649 (OP)
I had a mild boner for the b50, but I missed my chance to preorder one from newegg. I was a little disappointed in it's gaming performance and lack of sr-iov out of the box. Also less interested in hardware transcoding now, would rather make low bitrate copies for streaming with SVT

i got a b580 i love it it's my baby

tested it against a friends 50 series and it outperformed fps/processing wise irrespective of the fact that his 50 series had more RAM
40 series are fantastic there is no need to get a 50 series unless you like throwing away money, 4080ti is peak

50 series panders to hardware enthusiasts who think a higher number = better performance and stupid people who think the latest release is the best release

>>106503229
>brownoid zoomer thinks people upgrade every year
I hate you all, also
>4080ti
XD

>>106502649 (OP)
at $250 or less it's fine
i have had to use dxvk a lot more than for other GPUs though
so you may become familiar with it

>>106502649 (OP)
Kino for hardware acceleration if you need it for plex, Jellyfin, emby

>>106502649 (OP)
They're mid

>>106505143

What does it do for Jellyfin? Transcoding? Why would anyone on their right mind want you do that?

>>106506271
Yes. Helps if you're serving to clients that don't support modern codecs or low bandwidth if your clients are remote.

>>106506271
>>106506318
Oh also HDR -> SDR conversion that's actually good if a client device doesn't support HDR.

>>106502649 (OP)
Okay performance for the money, bad drivers (still), poor compatibility with pre-DX12/Vulkan titles and high idle power consumption.

>>106506351
A series has good idle consumption on Linux if you have a recent kernel and set it up properly.

I bought a A770 16GB on launch. It was okay actually. I since upgraded though to a 7900 XT. I use the A770 for LLMs now.

>>106502649 (OP)
are they really as good for plex servers as some people claim?

I own an A750 and a B580. They're pretty low tier GPUs but I'm always amazed at how much better XESS and XESS2 is than AMD's FSR offering. Intel's first attempts at ray tracing blow AMD's out of the water. Make them look like amateurs.

Those are the two standout points. Upscaling and ray-tracing are really good on ARC cards.

Intel's AI Playground is surprisingly good too.

My main card is Nvidia but fuck, in a secondary machine ARC is just fun. If they do ever release the B770 it would destroy AMD's offerings.

I've had an A770 near their launch.
I'm very happy that they didn't give up.
The card has aged like fine wine for the price.
There was a bug in the beta for battlefield 6 and they fixed it within a day.
Which is much better than the PowerPoint slideshow menu and crash while loading in issue in Apex Legends at launch.
I do wish there were more XeSS enabled games. It's better than FSR, sometimes even preferred by AMD users too.
Because unfortunately with the rubbish game Devs we have today fake pixels and frames are necessary.

The HPC and ML tooling is good and easy to use too.
I don't know who did the cooking but they did well.
But I'm afraid the lack of sales and awareness in the non-gaming space is going to kill Arc.
They should've been building b2b SYCL solutions for customers to prove their worth.