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Intel talks about quality a lot today

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they had the opportunity to walk that talk and this is what it looked like

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you know how we mock apple for going out on stage year after year after year this

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year's iphone is the best iphone that we

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have ever created it's ridiculous right

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obviously the new one is better and water is also wet right

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well after seeing this laptop

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i'm never gonna laugh at that again because thanks to Intel's long-awaited

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arc a370 discrete GPU the new spectre

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x360 from hp is actually worse than the

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old rtx 3050 model and not just by a

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little bit now slow that i could overlook but buggy to the

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point where alex described some of its functions as barely working

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that's an embarrassment for any organization let alone one the size of

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Intel now obviously these are very strong

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claims we're making here but don't worry

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as the writer of this video i want to make it clear that i did not want to do

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this i've had lengthy calls with Intel's engineers and worked really hard to show

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the strengths of Intel's arc because i'm excited for it

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i was two years old the last time a new player entered the discrete GPU market

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and i was not sure it would ever happen again but i was i was hopeful

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i wanted this to be positive because AMD and NVIDIA's duopoly has been in clear

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need of some disruption but unfortunately i can only review the

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hardware that's in front of me and it's a dumpster fire the naming scheme for

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art graphics goes arc 3 arc 5 and arc 7.

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so the a370m in our spectre x360 16 inch is

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kind of like the best of their i3 tier

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discrete gpus follow along so far good based on its

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positioning then Intel had no expectations that it would be able to

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beat the rtx 3050 in gaming and they

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were correct about that in our testing the 3050 is a solid 30

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percent faster in games despite being confined to the same chassis which

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wouldn't be a problem except that the arc equipped version is priced

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dollars higher oh and also in certain games even AMD's

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integrated graphics are able to beat it with that said this performance level is

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kind of acceptable given that Intel isn't really marketing this as a gaming

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card at 1080p on medium to low settings you

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can get a playable experience in most games and aside from occasional

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stuttering we barely saw any driver issues

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i mean Intel wasn't expecting to beat NVIDIA gaming instead they want to

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leverage hardware encoders to beat them at content creation and it's to the

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point where 40 of the dye area is actually dedicated to non-traditional

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gaming things let's talk about that each Intel arc GPU

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is made up of render slices and the main difference between a low end and a

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high-end GPU from Intel is the number of render slices so the a370m has eight of

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them in each render slice you'll find four xe cores that are comprised of 16

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xe vector engines these are what take care of rendering your games each being

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roughly equivalent to an execution unit in Intel's igpus you'll also find 16 xe

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matrix engines which are dedicated to ai tasks like upscaling

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along with the 4xe course you get 4 ray tracing units along with some other

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stuff to you know make it actually work as a GPU

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all of this hardware dedicated to ai and matrix manipulation means then that in

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tasks like topaz video enhance ai video encoding and up sampling should work

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incredibly well and they do

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doubling the resolution of this Floatplane exclusive video that we

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downloaded at 480p actually gave us a small win for Intel we got .22 seconds

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per frame compared to NVIDIA's 0.24

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or at least we did when the Intel system worked

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most of the time NVIDIA won by simply not crashing

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in davinci resolve Intel was able to leverage their av-1 encoders though to

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pull out a huge win against the 3050. though again this was by default because

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you can't do av1 encoding on the 3050 so we have no way to compare performance

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apples to apples not to mention that av1 encoding is only

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just beginning to find its usefulness in 2022.

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can't say the same about the wan hoodie though it's full of pockets and looks

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awesome lttstore.com in handbrake we

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well let's just say the numbers that we are about to show you took three days of

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back and forth with Intel's engineers as of june 22nd 2022 here's what you arc

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owners out there all dozens of you will need to do to use handbrake

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first get the latest drivers not from Windows update not from Intel's driver

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utility but rather you will need to check a blog post to see if they've

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posted anything new then you'll need the latest nightly

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version of handbrake off of github the mainline version does not support Intel

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arc yet at this point you'll have to be very

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very careful not to let Windows update run because for whatever reason Windows

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update will roll back the GPU drivers to

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an older version and if this happens it will completely break handbrake and

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you'll have to uninstall and remove everything from app data and start over

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once all that's complete you can set up your render NVIDIA's rtx 3050 was able

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to render out that 4k Floatplane exclusive which by the way you can watch

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if you go over to flipplane.com in 10 minutes and 1 seconds

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then with the same settings our Intel arc a370m

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didn't get past zero percent the video memory filled up and then nothing

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happened after a call with Intel's engineers we realized that we had used a strange

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resolution and by using a different 1080p file the a370m actually completed

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that video in code in just two-thirds the time of the 30-50.

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wow so when Intel is able to get their video

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encoders to consistently work arc might be a compelling value for video editors

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or maybe as an encoding coprocessor if you have a real GPU in your system

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the real disappointment here though isn't that a developer version of

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handbrake doesn't encode weird resolutions it's that Windows will screw

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up your drivers remember that whole wintel alliance

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thing i mean if there's one thing i expect from Intel it's that they're

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gonna work with microsoft to give you a seamless experience out of the box

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this was anything but anywho

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another way to leverage ark's ai capabilities is xe super sampling it's

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Intel's take on NVIDIA dlss and it sounds great especially when you've got

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an underpowered GPU that needs all the upsampling that it can do

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the problem is that it needs to be enabled on a per game basis

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oh and also it isn't available yet so even though there's a bunch of

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apparently very impressive ai hardware on the a370m the software side is so

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incomplete that we weren't able to show you a single demo of that hardware i'm

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kind of reminded of NVIDIA's rtx launch except that that included a really fast

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GPU as well one area Intel should excel though is

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power management in laptops there's a very small budget for power compared to

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desktops and making sure that that power is shared between the CPU and GPU

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properly can net you more performance and better battery life across the board

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to achieve this Intel arc laptops have a control loop that monitors what the CPU

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and the GPU are doing and designs power targets every 100 milliseconds GPU

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activity is the main driver here and they'll give the GPU more power until it

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starts to be starved for utilization at which point they'll start allocating

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power budget back to the CPU now currently on gaming laptops setting

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your CPU and GPU power targets independently can net you 15 more FPS if

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you absolutely nail that balance can also lose you 15 performance if you get

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it wrong so this is a welcome addition

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now NVIDIA does have a similar feature called dynamic boost 2.0 but on paper

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Intel's approach will allow for much greater flexibility when it comes to

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power allocation except that in our testing the old

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spectre x360 remember with the NVIDIA GPU and also further hampered by an 11th

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gen CPU got better battery life

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in talking to both Intel and hp this

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shouldn't have happened but in talking to Intel more

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so many aspects of this review should

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have gone better and yet they didn't so it's clear that Intel needs more time

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to get the bugs ironed out which raises the question

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why is this for sale well from our point of view Intel is

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kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place here on the one hand they've got

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to get the software right if somebody buys an Intel GPU today and has a

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terrible experience you can bet they're not going to be back for round two when

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battle mage drops even if it does end up being competitive with the best from a

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indian NVIDIA but then at the same time they have to get these out the door

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before NVIDIA's rtx 4000 series is announced the last thing they want to do

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is launch their top end arc a780 only to

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have it get embarrassed by an rtx 4050

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ti they also can only find so many

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problems in their own lab so yeah i guess this is me saying the quiet

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part out loud the people that buy an arc GPU now are essentially beta testers for

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Intel alex alone has now found multiple

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bugs that are now in the queue to be fixed

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it's just too bad that the timeline slipped so far if they had actually been

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able to release this in q1 like they had planned i'm sure loads of gamers would

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have been okay being an early adopter just to get their hands on literally

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anything to play games with now with GPU prices getting back to msrp

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or in some cases even below that early adopter tax it's gonna be a

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lot harder to swallow does this mean then that Intel's arc gpus are a

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complete dud well no

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something everyone seems to have kind of forgotten at this point is how terrible

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ryzen was when it first launched there were firmware bugs we had multiple

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motherboards just spontaneously brick you needed super specific RAM sticks to

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even to get it to post and even then that RAM probably couldn't run at its

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rated speed despite verizon being so reliant on fast memory to perform well i

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mean heck there were usb bugs that have only been recently sorted out

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so i don't want to count out Intel's arc just yet i mean if you think about it

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it's truly incredible that Intel was able to ship a discrete GPU at all and i

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genuinely hope that in a year we're going to be praising it

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but today like alex said we can only review the

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well that was quite a train wreck if you want to watch something that worked out

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surprisingly well instead of surprisingly poorly maybe check out the

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video where we hot rod at a steam deck it's kinda awesome