We were all looking forward to seeing what happens to Intel’s entry into the consumer graphics card market. The Arc A380 GPU is a low-level product from a well-known chip maker that has leaked entry-level performance statistics. (Opens in a new tab) Long before the release. However, with proper adjustment, you may be able to pull out this card much more than you expected.
Tom’s hardware (Opens in a new tab) Shared a prolific Russian YouTube video (subtitles may be required) Overclocker Pro High Tech (Opens in a new tab) It shows his results, including an attempt to make better use of the ArcA380 graphics card. Pro Hi-Tech was able to significantly improve performance by increasing frame rates by up to 60% in some games without using traditional overclocking methods.
Often, seeing such bragging overclocking will eventually result in a broken machine covered in coolant. If you want to overclock the A380, it doesn’t seem to need to be that serious. Instead, Pro Hi-tech just changed the power target and voltage offset in Intel’s graphics utility. The GPU performance boost slider has been set to 55% and the voltage offset has been changed by +0.255mv.
Changing these settings was enough for a small percentage boost, but the actual results didn’t start to appear until the power usage increased. The A380 is a little strange beast when it comes to power consumption. Intel’s official documentation reports the 75WTDPA380 Pro, but Hi-Tech used only a 35W draw.Not surprisingly, the card provides a dull result with that watt drip feed. (Opens in a new tab)..
Instead, in the overlock version shown in the video, the draw was up to 55W. This improved card performance by 43-57%, measured at the achieved FPS. This is already a big improvement for the A380, with the geometric mean of the tested game receiving a 37% boost. Doom Eternal recorded a 60% increase from 64 FPS to 102 due to the change. This is all very big for the GPU and especially requires such small tweaks.
On the one hand, it draws a simple and smart overclocking picture, but raises many questions about Intel’s latest advance into the GPU scene. The Arc A380 looks like it could be a good entry card that has been severely crippled by power consumption, so is there any other Intel product that has this limitation, and also why?
The Arc A380 isn’t available in all markets yet, but will be available at a great suggested retail price of around US $ 150. (Opens in a new tab)..Unfortunately, so far, the cards actually sold are over $ 500. (Opens in a new tab)And for that money, you would want that full 75W TDP to fit it.
