Intel is setting expectations low for its Arc GPUs

The Arc A750 limited edition is expected to be a hit. In a three minute video, the chipmaker gives us a brief glimpse at the card.

The A750 is supposed to be one of the top-of-the-line graphics cards from Intel. The Arc 5 and Arc 3 are below the Arc 7 and are supposed to offer entry-level performance.

In the video, Ryan Shrout boots up Cyberpunk 2077 on a PC with the A750 chip installed, but instead of giving us a long look at the game, he skips to performance. With the game set to the high-quality preset, Shrout says the card gets "just under" 60 frames per second, which isn't bad, but not necessarily what you'd expect from a company like Intel.

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The benchmark tests show how well the card fares against the entry-level Nividia. The standard RTX 3060 performs 1.06 to 1.15 times better than the Intel Arc A750. Shrout points out that the performance of Arc won't look like this in all games and that the test is a great view of what Arc is capable of. These tests weren't done by an independent party.

It is not possible to tell how a card performs until we try it out for ourselves. The Arc A750 is expected to launch later this summer, but Intel has already released its A350M and A370M mobile graphics cards in a few different notebooks, as well as the entry-level Arc A380 desktop graphics card in China.

Things aren't looking good for Intel's new line of graphics cards. The addition of Intel's A370M made the 16-inch HP Spectre x360 laptop "worse" than the previous version, according to a review by Linus Tech Tips. Users may be less inclined to buy something that requires diving into unchartered territories, especially with GPUs becoming so readily available and the 40-series cards around the corner, because of the inevitable bugs and other glitch in any new product.