Intel A380 Ray Tracing performance
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-arc-a380/35.html
It is actually surprising as to how good Intel's first attempt is. This is slower than a 6400 in Raster but in Ray Tracing, it is doing well above 6500XT. Now obviously, these aren't playable framerates but it is exciting to see that Intel's first attempt is pretty good after RDNA2's disappointing Ray Tracing performance. I'll be interested to see the A770's RT performance.
PS5 Beta introduces 1440p support, Gamelists, and more
Never thought I'd see the day but since Sony is now getting into the PC gaming monitor business, I suppose it makes sense. This does mean that those people that have a PS5 and are thinking to buy the Alienware QD-OLED will now have an option to play at native 1440p resolution instead of getting it upscaled from 1080p. What would really be fap worthy is if the consoles would get 1440p Ultrawide support for Bluray playback but alas, that is a pipe dream.
Linus runs A770
Now there aren't any benchmarks or anything other than it can run a game but there is one interesting point of note. Arc basically has 3 tiers in terms of performance. Tier 1 = DX12/Vulkan games that are optimized for Arc. Tier 2 = Every other DX12/Vulkan games that will run fine on Arc. Tier 3 = DX11 games that will run like arse. But apparently, Intel will be pricing Arc based on the performance of DX11 titles. Now while Arc certainly has a lot of growing pains because it's a first generation product, it is certainly refreshing to see a GPU manufacturer caring about value instead of releasing shitty products like the 1630 from Nvidia and 6500XT and below from AMD.
Intel Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K tested, higher performance with higher power consumption
"In test such as CPU-Z the i7 sees a 10% boost in single-core test and 32-34% better score in multi-threaded. The i5-13600K, in other hand has 5% 39-41% uplift respectively."
Take it with a grain of salt. I will say an i5 going up to 178 watts is a bit nutty though.
ASUS unveils ROG Strix 4K HDMI 2.1 gaming monitor, up to 160Hz refresh rate with overclocking
So they took the PG32UQ, made the default hz 120 instead of 144, then allow you to overclock the panel to 160hz while PG32UQ can overclock to 155hz? Hopefully it will be no more than $600 USD.
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