"Intel’s Arc A770 and A750 were decent at launch, but over the past few months, they’ve started to look like some of the best graphics cards you can buy if you’re on a budget. Disappointing generational improvements from AMD and Nvidia, combined with high prices, have made it hard to find a decent GPU around $200 to $300 — and Intel’s GPUs have silently filled that gap.

They don’t deliver flagship performance, and in some cases, they’re just straight-up worse than the competition at the same price. But Intel has clearly been improving the Arc A770 and A750, and although small driver improvements don’t always make a splash, they’re starting to add up."

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@nanoUFO Honestly, I am considering picking one up for Starfield, depending on how they perform there. I’m sure their Linux support isn’t incredible, but Nvidia also has a lot of issues on Linux and I’ve been running my 1060 for years now.

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Have you considered upgrading to an eBay 1080ti? Still a bulletproof card depending on your application, unless you’re trying to get that sweet sweet AV1 encoding.

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I don’t think realtime AV1 encoding is really going to be necessary for quite awhile tbh. A Ryzen i3 should be able to hit around 10fps on software AV1 encoders and get like 5x the quality. Otherwise x264 on medium is blazing fast and way better than what hardware h.265 will get you.

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I really want an energy efficient variant next time around. I currently have a 1050Ti and when i upgrade i sort of want something that’s relatively better but with less wattage if possible.

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Thanks for that, that’s good info. It’s good to know the arc gpus are trending towards the bottom half of the graph. It would be very cool to see a frames/watts graph like.

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I agree. I feel like the low wattage cards have become thing of the past. Everything is so power hungry now.

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can you use it for Cuda applications?

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No. Their may exist some workarounds to make it work but directly it won’t work.

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I’ve got a Vega 64 in my HTPC, and it can run Diablo 4 okay at 4k, but would like to upgrade. It’s hard to find a comparison, but does anyone know how an Arc A750/770 compares to a Vega 64?

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OneAPI also looks quite juicy… from someone currently suffering under ROCm and in refusal to give the green goblin any business.

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If you can bear the terrible drivers, consider a used nvidia card. They can be decent deals for gaming as well.

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This is so the way. Using a used Tesla P40 in a Linux server for AI stuff. Card goes hard.

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What happened to the drivers for the old cards to make them bad?

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Crashes, broken adaptive sync, general display problems and, most importantly, stutter. I’m running a version from about a year ago on my 1070 Ti because every time I try to update, some game starts to stutter and I get to use DDU and try multiple versions until I find one that doesn’t have that problem.

About 2-3 weeks ago, an update also worsened LLM performance by a lot on 30 and 40 series cards. There were a lot of reports on Reddit, not sure if they fixed it yet.

My default advice for any issue on r/techsupport that could be nvidia driver related has been to DDU and install a version from 3-6 months ago and that has worked shockingly well.

That reminds me, have the r/techsupport mods migrated to lemmy yet? Their explanation of the whole reddit issue was great, so I don’t think they’ll want to stay on there.

Anyways, back to the topic. Since OP also mentioned ROCm, I’m assuming he uses Linux for that. The nvidia drivers on linux are pretty much unusable because of all the glitches and instabilities they cause. Nvidia is a giant meme in the linux community because of this.

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