Universal Blue•2y ago

That's enough bandwidth for Arc cards

GGeechan looks like that has PCIe Gen 3 support. Should be fine

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:06 PM

they are gen 3 all pcie slots

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:06 PM

and its x8 bus lane

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:07 PM

Well, if it makes you feel better, people can run 4090s on PCIe gen 3.0 x16 with about 75% of the performance; see here: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-pci-express-scaling/22.html

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:08 PM

Arc cards use nowhere near as much bandwidth as a 4090

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:10 PM

true i heard about intel arc today

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:10 PM

seems intel getting better real fast

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:11 PM

specially with their 256 bit and all rtx cards has 128 bit thats real slow lol

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:11 PM

even funnier 4090 costs 2k usd and intel arc performances better

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:14 PM

the 4090 is much much faster than the strongest Arc card, I'm afraid

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:14 PM

But still overpriced true

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:15 PM

This is Intel's top card at the moment; it's about 30% as performant as a 4090 lol https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/arc-a770.c3914

GGeechan the 4090 is much much faster than the strongest Arc card, I'm afraid

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:15 PM

im sure intel will beat 4090 cuz 256bit in terms of memory speed lol

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:15 PM

that isn't everything

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:16 PM

quite difficult to know what recommended psu for this card with my current hardware lol

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:17 PM

what's your current one's wattage?

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:17 PM

my psu?

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:17 PM

Yep

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:17 PM

at least 700w

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:17 PM

oh that's plenty

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:18 PM

hopefully that card doesnt overheat on me lol

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:19 PM

The A770 is about a 230W card

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:19 PM

it's quite low power

GGeechan The A770 is about a 230W card

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:19 PM

225 what i saw*

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:19 PM

More specifically, yes

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:20 PM

im suprised with prices with that card

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:21 PM

It gets a lot of bad press due to poor Windows drivers, but if you're on Linux it's very smooth

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:21 PM

That likely lowers the overall pricing

GGeechan It gets a lot of bad press due to poor Windows drivers, but if you're on Linux i...

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:22 PM

well, if you using beta driver ofc gonna be bad in windows lol

GGeechan The A770 is about a 230W card

Valerie•1/21/24, 2:25 PM

Won't lie, arc is quite appealing to me

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:25 PM

Under Linux it's a killer card imo

Valerie•1/21/24, 2:26 PM

I'm more loyal to AMD but intel are tempting

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:26 PM

I personally need higher performance than Arc offers, but I root for Intel

VValerie Won't lie, arc is quite appealing to me

Al-Mumin•1/21/24, 2:27 PM

same i will go for it so i search for it in my country stores if its possible but it might be risky move cause where i from there is no safety from customers buyer those who increase prices 2x higher than original

GGeechan I personally need higher performance than Arc offers, but I root for Intel

Valerie•1/21/24, 2:28 PM

I have a 6700xt which does me well, but I'd look at intel for when I need an upgrade.

Valerie•1/21/24, 2:28 PM

To be honest though I'm done with desktops so whatever I get will be used as an eGPU for a laptop.

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:28 PM

Intel mainly needs to keep competing in the low-mid range, where both AMD and especially Nvidia suck

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:29 PM

I'm talking like the 200-400 dollar budget range

GGeechan Intel mainly needs to keep competing in the low-mid range, where both AMD and es...

Valerie•1/21/24, 2:29 PM

AMD are doing pretty well there, Intel could do better but it'll be hard. ARC gen 2 will be more revealing I think.

GeechanOP•1/21/24, 2:29 PM

We'll have both Arc gen 2 and RDNA 4, which is said to focus more in that range, so definitely good things to come

Valerie•1/21/24, 2:30 PM

For sure

VValerie I have a 6700xt which does me well, but I'd look at intel for when I need an upg...

Kamquat•1/21/24, 2:35 PM

I'd wait for the new gen, none of the current Intel cards are an upgrade over a 6700xt

KKamquat I'd wait for the new gen, none of the current Intel cards are an upgrade over a ...

Valerie•1/21/24, 2:35 PM

I mean, that's what I was alluding too lol

Kamquat•1/21/24, 2:36 PM

Oh derp. Yeah that makes sense. Sorry, I'm waiting for tea to brew and am not yet properly functional this morning

Joseph•1/21/24, 2:37 PM

My Intel Arc card performs bad on Windows but that's because I don't have above 4G decoding support or resizable bar support. It works great on Linux I think Linux doesn't care about that stuff being enabled in the bios unlike windows

Kamquat•1/21/24, 2:37 PM

I've been debating the sidegrade from my 6700xt to an Arc A770 just for extra 4gb of VRAM