Intel release Arc A770’s 1080p ray tracing game benchmarks
At SIGGRAPH 2022 held last month, Intel demonstrated the ray tracing capabilities of the ARC A770 graphics card through a NUC 11 Extreme-based system, but the demo at the time lacked benchmark scores or data for comparison.
Recently, Intel officially released a set of data comparing the ray tracing performance of ARC A770 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 in games. These tests were all conducted at 1920×1080 resolution and showed that the ARC A770 was on average 14% faster than the GeForce RTX 3060.
In addition, Intel also provided ARC A770’s first official XeSS test results. Although Intel has promised that the XeSS technology will be released in “early summer”, no games have officially used it yet. This time Intel shared the performance of the ARC A770 graphics card when ray tracing is turned on in the game, with “XeSS Balanced Mode” or “XeSS Performance Mode”, and the game runs at 2560×1440 resolution.
Different games have different levels of improvement. In the XeSS performance mode, the number of frames is increased by between 49% and 113%, and the number of frames in Hitman 3 and Ghostwire Tokyo can be doubled. If you switch to XeSS Balanced Mode, the frame rate increase is between 26% and 77%, and the difference is quite large.
A few days ago, Tom Petersen, an academician in charge of graphics technology innovation at Intel, said in an interview with PCGamer that the design team is currently working on the next generation of GPUs, but most of the driver team members still focus on the Alchemist graphics card. According to Intel’s plan, the Battlemage graphics card will be launched between 2023 and 2024, and the Celestial graphics card will be launched after 2024.
