Ahead-looking: The Intel advertising machine has produced one more video in regards to the structure and options of the Arc sequence, this time with a deal with ray tracing. If Intel’s claims are legitimate, the Arc 7 A770 might have excellent ray-tracing efficiency for its tier.

The video is staged as an interview with Ryan Shrout, Intel marketer, posing the inquiries to notorious engineer Tom Petersen, greatest identified for his 15 years as an Nvidia frontman. Now he is peddling the advantages of Intel’s ray tracing {hardware} acceleration — go determine. He explains it nicely within the first half of the above video, so give it a watch in case you’re .

Within the second half, Petersen graphs the body charges of the A770 and 3060 in 17 video games with ray tracing enabled. Seeing the outcomes, he says, “we win most — we win, actually.” However to offer Intel the advantage of the doubt, I am going to additionally quote the declare it makes within the effective print: the “A770 delivers aggressive ray tracing efficiency in opposition to the RTX 3060 at 1080p throughout a pattern of widespread video games.”

Aggressive or the winner? Take a look at Intel’s graph and resolve for your self.

Here is the place I might warn you that Intel might’ve cherry-picked these video games, besides that there in all probability aren’t every other video games that help ray tracing on Arc GPUs. In any case, do not place an excessive amount of religion in Intel’s numbers.

On common, the Arc A770 is nearly 13% sooner than the RTX 3060. Intel advantages from some huge swings in its favor, like a 56% lead in Fortnite and a 31% lead in Metro Exodus. Nonetheless, the A770 falls significantly behind in Battlefield V and “Guardians of the Galagy [sic].”

Intel says it performed benchmarks with the video games’ settings maxed out with the justifiable exception of movement blur. With these settings and at 1080p, each sport was playable on the A770 bar, possibly Cyberpunk 2077 and Fortnite, however for essentially the most half, you’d wish to dial the settings again to medium.

If you happen to look intently, you will see that Ghostwire Tokyo was benchmarked with a beta driver that (allegedly) improves efficiency by 25 %. Intel might’ve chosen to not add that label, nevertheless it did so it might reiterate its plan to reinforce the Arc sequence’ efficiency with every driver replace.

On the finish of the interview, Shrout and Petersen speak briefly about utilizing XeSS along side ray tracing. Nvidia and AMD every counsel utilizing their respective tremendous sampling applied sciences, DLSS and FSR, when their GPUs haven’t got the horsepower to push native decision with ray tracing enabled, and it is the identical deal right here. The A770 does get some exceptional positive factors with XeSS enabled, however we’ll have to attend and see what the picture high quality is like.

Intel nonetheless hasn’t shared a launch date for the A770 or the remainder of the sequence however guarantees it’s getting shut. The A770 is anticipated to value lower than $400 and may be aggressive with the 3060 close to its MSRP of $330.