The specific model we have here, the Arc A750 Limited Edition, has also had its price cut from £330 / $289 to £250 / $250. A series of driver updates, Intel claims, have improved average FPS performance by up to 87% since launch, with major gains in frame times (the time between each new rendered frame) as well. In 2023, however, Intel Arc may be on a redemption. Nothing awful, but nowhere near as special as they once seemed like they could be. Then they were repeatedly delayed, confirmed to possess some unwelcome technical quirks (like wanting Resizable BAR on at all times), and ultimately released with merely decent-ish performance. After years of it being easier to buy an original O’Keefe than a reasonably priced graphics card, the Arc series brought hope that it might actually be possible to get a decent PC upgrade for less than £500. That kind of thinking seems to have made its way to Intel, and the Arc A750 now delivers up to 50% more performance per dollar than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, according to Intel.Until recently, the story of Intel’s Arc GPUs has been a litany of mild disappointments. Intel's graphics team comprises many ex-AMD engineers such as chief architect Raja Koduri, who lead AMD's Radeon division when the RX 480 launched, and he argued the $200 to $250 price range was important for the RX 480 to hit. It's not clear why the A750 is the only card getting a price cut, but that $249 price tag is in close range of the AMD Radeon RX 480 when it launched. It would have been nice to see other cards come down in price too, especially the A770 which is officially priced at $349 (for the 16GB model). The Arc A750 is clearly important to Intel because it's the sole Arc GPU getting a price cut, from $289 to $249. This isn't important work just for Intel's current GPUs, but for its upcoming Battlemage cards as well. Cumulatively, Intel boasts Arc GPUs provide 60% higher 99th percentile framerates (which means less stuttering) and 43% higher average framerates since the GPUs launched last year. Last December, Intel launched a single driver that improved DX9 performance in several games by around 50%, which is a massive improvement for just a single update.

Intel has been working diligently on Arc drivers ever since the first Arc graphics cards came out.

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