Arc A770 Beats RTX 3060 in Ray Tracing Performance, According to Intel Benchmarks
As promised, Intel new video (opens in new tab) Highlight the ray tracing technology behind Arc Alchemist graphics cards. The Arc A770 has yet to prove itself, but the looming graphics card aims to contend for a spot on the list of best graphics cards.
We’ve already talked about how the Arc A380 holds up in the ray tracing performance race. However, the Arc A380 is an entry-level SKU with just 8 Ray Tracing Units (RTUs), while the Arc A770 has the flagship crown and features 32 RTUs. The Arc A770 is particularly interesting as Intel backs up earlier claims that Arc is competitive or slightly better than his Nvidia’s 2nd Gen RT cores inside Ampere.
Intel continues to provide low-level details of its ray tracing hardware, but it’s a pretty big claim. I’m here. AMD uses texture units to do ray/box BVH intersections at a rate of 4 boxes/cycle. Intel does his BVH traversal in hardware and can do 12 ray/box crossings per cycle. Beyond that, both AMD and Intel can do one ray/triangle crossing per core per cycle. Nvidia says that with Ampere, he can do twice as many ray/triangle crossings per RT core, but it’s not clear what Turing’s or Ampere’s ray/box rates are.
Intel details a BVH cache that further speeds up BVH traversal. RTU also has a thread sorting unit that takes the results of ray tracing work and groups them according to complexity, helping to maximize GPU shader core utilization. All sounds good in theory, but how does it work in the real world of games?
According to Intel’s benchmarks, the Arc A770 has better ray tracing performance than the GeForce RTX 3060 at 1080p (1920×1080) ultra settings. Alchemist outperformed Ampere by between 1.04X and 1.56X. The Arc A770 lost to his GeForce RTX 3060 only in his four titles including: F1 2022, Guardians of the Galaxy, Battlefield VWhen DeathloopIntel’s graphics card is tied up with the GeForce RTX 3060. Diorfield Chronicle.
Ray tracing puts a strain on your graphics card, regardless of resolution. As a result, increasing resolution decreases performance. That’s where Intel’s XeSS AI upscaling technology comes to the rescue of Arc. Intel used the highest possible settings for the XeSS 1440p test and set ray tracing to maximum.
The results showed that the Arc A770 struggled to deliver frame rates above 40 FPS on titles like ghost wire tokyo When hitman 3However, with XeSS enabled on the Balanced preset, the Arc A770 performed 1.77x better. ghost wire tokyo and at 1.61X hitman 3However, it is a balanced preset. So if performance is more important than looks, the XeSS performance settings can be used to improve performance even further.
Using XeSS for the performance preset, the Arc A770 delivered more than double the frame rate. ghost wire tokyo When Hitman 3. The graphics card also revealed a visible performance boost (up to 1.68x) in other tested titles. Shadow of the Tomb Raider, arcadegeddon, Also Diorfield Chronicle.
Barring any further delays, the Arc A770 should hit the retail market by the end of the year. Intel has been tight-lipped about graphics card pricing. However, new clues suggest that the Arc A770 could cost around $400. This makes sense considering the RTX 3060 has an official suggested retail price of just $330. At least not at that price yet, but with Ada Lovelace on the horizon, GPU prices could continue to drop.