WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.020 the only one more excited for this day to come than me has got to be Intel they 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:13.679 have been hard at work on their Arc series dedicated gpus since at least 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:16.139 2017 when they hired Raja kaduri from 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:23.100 AMD who was leading up their Radeon graphics Division and it's finally 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:28.340 freaking here this is their Alchemist 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:30.140 code name first generation Arc Flagship 00:00:28.340 --> 00:00:35.460 the a770 and 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:42.239 it comes with important safety and regulatory information 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:43.700 Nate let's play indeed it's a cute case 00:00:42.239 --> 00:00:52.379 badge holy crap this is it 00:00:48.239 --> 00:00:55.920 You Gotta Give Them full credit it looks 00:00:52.379 --> 00:00:58.079 flipping sick hold on this plugs into a 00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:05.280 USB header and this is going to handle the RGB Lighting on your graphics card 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:07.939 that's right a reference card with RGB 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:11.540 is this international power plugs 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:20.820 is this seriously a stand for the card is that what it is is it a stick 00:01:18.360 --> 00:01:27.780 oh oh I see why does it come with two bases wait shut up that's their solution 00:01:24.780 --> 00:01:30.900 to be able to wall mount it 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:33.960 or wall mount it this way 00:01:30.900 --> 00:01:35.880 is to have two completely separate bases 00:01:33.960 --> 00:01:38.479 with the power switch in a different spot 00:01:40.939 --> 00:01:47.640 yeah I couldn't engineer a better solution but you know what fine oh fatal 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:52.340 flaw we got the top down camera and I have no way of showing it to the top 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.340 wait 00:01:54.000 --> 00:02:02.700 a solution now the performance embargo hasn't 00:01:59.939 --> 00:02:07.200 lifted yet but we can talk about all the detailed specs and Intel has released 00:02:05.219 --> 00:02:12.300 enough performance information about this GPU that we can make some pretty 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:17.700 educated guesses first the basics though the arc lineup is divided up into three 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:23.580 five and seven series products just like you would see on their desktop CPUs so 00:02:20.580 --> 00:02:26.220 this being an a770 makes it the top 00:02:23.580 --> 00:02:31.319 performer of their top series it uses their dg2 512 processor clocked at 2.1 00:02:29.340 --> 00:02:37.500 gigahertz that means it has 32 of their XE cores and 32 Ray tracing units it's 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:39.300 equipped with 8 or 16 gigabytes of video 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:45.000 memory that's what makes this the limited edition it has 16 gigs of memory 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:48.780 and that's connected via a 256-bit bus 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:52.440 and it's rated to draw 225 watts of 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:55.739 power which is our first red flag 00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:58.620 because Intel says that this card is 00:02:55.739 --> 00:03:04.980 designed to compete against NVIDIA's RTX 3060 and AMD's Radeon that's 00:03:01.760 --> 00:03:09.720 6650xt both of which draw in the 00:03:04.980 --> 00:03:13.200 neighborhood of 160 to 170 Watts also 00:03:09.720 --> 00:03:16.019 neither of which use a 256-bit memory 00:03:13.200 --> 00:03:20.340 bus that means that especially once we dig in a little deeper and find the 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:26.940 transistor count of this card that Intel was hoping for better performance out of 00:03:23.519 --> 00:03:30.659 this GPU more along the lines of a 3070 00:03:26.940 --> 00:03:33.060 or a 6700 glass card making matters more 00:03:30.659 --> 00:03:39.360 complicated for Intel NVIDIA has already announced their RTX 40 series of cards 00:03:35.819 --> 00:03:42.239 however NVIDIA's pricing is so far out 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:46.680 to lunch that if at the price Intel has announced which is 330 dollars for this 00:03:44.519 --> 00:03:52.680 card they do manage to be competitive with a 30 60 30 60 TI and if the 00:03:50.700 --> 00:03:57.000 overclocking Headroom is anywhere near what they've talked about 00:03:54.420 --> 00:04:00.360 Ark could actually end up being pretty competitive I guess we should take a 00:03:58.860 --> 00:04:05.159 closer look at the card man did they ever nail the Aesthetics you've got a 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:11.040 diffused RGB strip down here diffused RGB lighting around both of the 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:12.540 fans meant in real life once it's lit it 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:16.500 looks amazing oh do you have a test bench for me right there Bell Events has 00:04:14.340 --> 00:04:21.840 got a test bench for me hey thank you so welcome all right let's just uh yeah what could 00:04:19.739 --> 00:04:24.840 go wrong uh that could go wrong one thing to note is that probably because 00:04:23.220 --> 00:04:29.520 it was intended to come out a lot sooner the art series does not use any of the 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:35.220 new funky PCIe power connectors it just has a standard eight pin plus six pin oh 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:37.680 and that USB is right here is that what 00:04:35.220 --> 00:04:41.280 that USB connector is for I don't remember them telling me that it 00:04:39.479 --> 00:04:45.720 was for RGB but like you're connected via PCIe can you just do it that way 00:04:43.020 --> 00:04:49.440 can't wait to show this to you guys oh after this message from our sponsor 00:04:47.340 --> 00:04:53.880 thanks to iFixit for sponsoring today's video iFixit wants to help you skip your 00:04:52.139 --> 00:04:58.259 next phone upgrade helping you save money if your battery life sucks put in 00:04:56.460 --> 00:05:04.259 a new battery if your screen is broken replace it using one of ifixit's fix 00:05:00.479 --> 00:05:06.240 kits starting at just 10.99 USD you can 00:05:04.259 --> 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00:05:54.000 the top tier Flagship level card it's pretty big isn't almost as big as a 00:05:52.440 --> 00:05:57.900 3080 TI um here's a 36 DTI this is more along 00:05:56.280 --> 00:06:02.100 the lines of the kind of Founders Edition card that you might be competing 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:07.440 with in terms of performance it's a little on the long boy side here's our 00:06:04.259 --> 00:06:08.880 6700 XT which is actually okay higher 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:13.919 tier card than this one's about the same size which again would give you some 00:06:12.539 --> 00:06:19.139 idea of what Intel was actually targeting and you can see this in some of the other specs as well when we 00:06:16.919 --> 00:06:25.020 compared the raw pixel rate and texture rate memory bandwidth with something 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:28.259 like a 3060 TI the a770 kinda craps all 00:06:25.020 --> 00:06:30.600 over it but because Intel is kind of new 00:06:28.259 --> 00:06:36.120 to the driver game when it comes to high performance dedicated gpus 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:37.800 it's speculated that aside from any 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:41.940 architectural oversights there might have been on a first-gen product they 00:06:39.780 --> 00:06:47.699 have a lot to learn especially when it comes to optimizing for older especially 00:06:44.580 --> 00:06:49.080 DirectX 9 and earlier titles and you 00:06:47.699 --> 00:06:54.660 can't not support them because that's part of the beauty of PC gaming is that 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:56.280 you've got this incredible back catalog 00:06:54.660 --> 00:07:00.960 of games that you can go back and play even on Modern Hardware that sometimes 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:05.100 does little bit of hackery in spite of all the delays one reassuringly modern 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:08.940 thing about this card is its feature set Intel is claiming that right out of the 00:07:07.259 --> 00:07:13.680 gate they're going to have Ray tracing performance that is up to 65 percent 00:07:11.100 --> 00:07:18.479 stronger Peak compared to their Rivals the up to Peak that's a lot of 00:07:16.919 --> 00:07:24.599 qualifications but hey at least they're going to support Ray tracing right out of the gate and they're going to have 00:07:21.900 --> 00:07:28.080 support for XE super sampling xcss which is a competitor to NVIDIA's deep 00:07:26.280 --> 00:07:33.060 learning super sampling and AMD's Fidelity effects super resolution using 00:07:30.660 --> 00:07:38.699 AI to boost frame rates at higher resolutions how well it works though it 00:07:35.940 --> 00:07:42.539 remains to be seen and based on how much work NVIDIA and AMD have already put 00:07:40.740 --> 00:07:46.979 into this technology I would say Intel is going to be playing catch-up where 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:51.660 they won't be playing catch-up is in their display interfaces on the back 00:07:48.960 --> 00:07:57.360 here we're going to find HDMI 2.1 so you'll be able to do up to 4K 00:07:54.020 --> 00:08:00.300 120 hertz or 8K 60 I believe you can do 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:06.840 on HDMI 2.1 and this is where things get really cool this is our first Hands-On 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:09.199 with DisplayPort 2.0 however 00:08:06.840 --> 00:08:15.300 unlike previous version of DisplayPort DP 2.0 is not just a cut and dried 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:24.840 here's what you get it's divided up into ultra high bitrate uhbr 10 13.5 I think 00:08:20.819 --> 00:08:29.280 and 20. and what those numbers mean is 00:08:24.840 --> 00:08:35.099 the data rate times four so these are DP 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:38.159 2.0 uhbr 10 for a total of 40 gigabit 00:08:35.099 --> 00:08:40.580 per second ports okay it's a little 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:45.540 confusing kind of which it was just uhbr40 so that that would be a little 00:08:42.959 --> 00:08:49.800 more intuitive for normies but in a world where USB naming conventions exist 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:54.899 I guess this is a win another win and another modern feature 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:59.040 is Intel support for av1 encoding and not on this GPU but we have actually 00:08:57.300 --> 00:09:06.300 played around with it a fair bit in the last week on Intel arc on the A380 and 00:09:02.459 --> 00:09:08.940 it's pretty freaking cool at 3 500 00:09:06.300 --> 00:09:15.839 kilobit per second our encoded game streaming footage looks about the same 00:09:11.220 --> 00:09:18.120 as NVIDIA's nvank at 6 000 kilobit per 00:09:15.839 --> 00:09:22.440 second so what this means is that once platforms like twitch support it you can 00:09:20.220 --> 00:09:27.120 expect to be able to stream at the same quality that people can today on a much 00:09:25.140 --> 00:09:32.100 lesser internet connection or you can expect to see better quality twitch 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:36.480 streams pretty cool for all my positivity though and as much as I would 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:39.420 love for there to be a valid third competitor in the dedicated graphics 00:09:38.160 --> 00:09:44.339 card space I do have to temper my enthusiasm a 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:47.820 little bit because Intel is up against a lot of obstacles they've got to figure 00:09:45.839 --> 00:09:53.160 out that backwards compatibility game performance they've got to compete with 00:09:49.980 --> 00:09:55.500 AMD and NVIDIA both releasing new series 00:09:53.160 --> 00:10:01.080 of gpus when Arc Alchemist was really supposed to be competing with the last 00:09:57.540 --> 00:10:03.360 series of gpus and another big one is 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:07.980 that we talk about second-hand gpus a lot and given the recent crypto crash 00:10:05.459 --> 00:10:13.080 there's a lot of them out there at very aggressive pricing and the reality of it 00:10:09.839 --> 00:10:14.640 is that Intel doesn't have any used gpus 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:18.420 and they certainly don't benefit from selling them so it's going to be an 00:10:16.500 --> 00:10:23.580 extremely competitive market they seem pretty confident in their 329 pricing 00:10:20.459 --> 00:10:25.680 and I certainly wish them luck but hey 00:10:23.580 --> 00:10:30.360 if that doesn't work out for them then it can only be a win for gamers because 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:35.279 they've made them so now they definitely have to sell them just like I'm gonna 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:37.620 sell you uh that you should go subscribe 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:42.779 to LTT while you're subscribing to ShortCircuit so you don't miss our full 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:45.800 review view of this and other Arc 00:10:42.779 --> 00:10:45.800 Alchemist cards