With the Intel Arc Alchemist, Intel wants to enter the graphics market. It happens that its majority audience is not only content creators, but also video game players who want a graphics card that renders cutting-edge games with good graphics. In this case, if the Intel Arc A 380 already promised that it was not going to be the most powerful, in games they beat it GTX 1650 and RX 6400.
Needless to say, these two graphics cards that the Intel Arc A380 is being compared to are known to be minimally helpful. They can run modern games, but they're getting outdated since they always have to be played with minimal graphics and hardly any effects. In this case, being compared as worse than these cards is not positive for those who expected the Intel Arc to offer good gaming capabilities.
The Intel Arc A380 is not very good for gaming
The Intel Arc A380 GPU for desktop computers seems to be not as good in games as it is in benchmarks. The Intel Arc A380 graphics card for desktop computers is widely available in China, so it has been possible to put it to the test in independent tests. AMD's RX 6500 XT and NVIDIA's GTX 1650 are better in comparison at running games.
In DirectX 11 tests, the A380 is 22 to 26 percent slower than its AMD counterpart. In the DirectX 12 tests, the difference is only 9 percent, but it's still a significant difference.
Real game testing of cards by independent means offers a completely different picture than synthetic testing. The A380 outperformed AMD's Radeon RX 6500 XT and RX 6400 by a significant margin in 3DMark Port Royal and Time Spy software benchmarks. But a game is not a benchmark, so the results of real use cases matter a lot.
This is why it has been proven that in games, the performance of the Arc A380 paints a different picture. Looking at League of Legends, PUBG, GTA V, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead Redemption benchmarks, the A380 performs 22-26 percent less than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 and the Radeon RX 6400 in the first three DirectX 11 tests. The discrepancy is reduced in DirectX 12 titles like Shadow of the Tom Raider and Forza 5, where it is around 10% slower.
The card performs well in Red Dead Redemption 2, which uses Vulkan. In this case, it is 7% slower than the GTX 1650 and 9% slower than the RX 6400 in that game.
Source: Guru3D
