Intel Arc A380 Gaming GPU Review & Benchmarks vs. AMD RX 6400, GTX 1650, & More

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(These cards also have AV1 capabilities, which is something we'll look at in a future piece!)

Something like this from a big company who was telling people for ten years or so, we have built realtime raytracing into a laptop ? Everytime they were asked, is it really rendering on the laptop ? Noo, four big servers are rendering it in the background. Help me AVGN, what would you call it ? Big pile of f*cking dog sh*t !

Why does anyone 'need' a GPU if they have one? It seems like the type of people who are dumb and want to do things like 'hurr durr lets build a data warehouse for crypto' would be like the only ones buying more than 1 GPU and keeping up to date. Even there I'd envision more a 'CEO mindset' like they think they're special but are overpaying for smaller %'s of increase. Still more than happy using 1060 6GB and no need to update it in 2022; have 1 GPU I might upgrade to in the next year or two, if I even keep this whole setup going in that time. So that's any DX11/DX12 game can run smoothly and I've had no issue when I have to run anything. Pretty sure those scalpers and people are partially the reason why it's all ruined right now, they just spam buy,ruining any sort of 'deals' for the ones who would randomly need it, or would buy it, and so on. Crypto and reselling was the perfect scam and marketing needed to fill the niche and let like 1/1000000 people profit by abusing it and of course crypto was always only unregulated trickery from the start.

I can't imagine why anyone would need like a nvidia 4000s series gpu. I think they need to start waiting for things to 'catch up', then release a major thing that increase like 100% each year or two years, insteadof this 33% every year and trying to trick people to pay extra when it's new; anyone who overpaid for like a latest gpu (or even, got a budget one), even years back, will have more than enough to run anything smoothly to point of not being effected, except won't be able to max out on scams like ray trace lighting etc. Intel GPU not being 'actually better' says a lot how useful it would be, only a gimmick at best.

Also will be ironic to see drivers not working right when they're tailored for NVidia (or perhaps, they are the only ones who perfected it to be quite good), and AMD has made great drivers but not perfected themselves for years; if you understand it, it's always an experimental process of plugging into the Windows and current driver ports, they are also updating DirectX and otehr things, but usually AMD/NVidia are actually stable, you just might expect a BSOD from one where the other one handles it fine. I can imagine Intel being years behind unless they stole drivers or worked together with Microsoft for example because, most of that stuff is otherwise, largely undocumented and into the company drivers themselves, kept private. Even in terms of development, while obviously microsoft is more the software/port side of things, and has interfaces for you to create a GPU, it still has massive changes sometimes where they make different drivers for different windows versions and so on, it can be a big endevour to take on support for all of it even with microsoft standardizing a lot of it in recent years. Without that, which also limits what a GPU can do, they're basically stuck on latest versions only and so 'not being actually better' in any way makes it worthless completely, like no reason to put extra effort to use it and then wait for potential improvement anyway. If it were some quantum thing or some insanely better thing that is offered cheaper, that would be something, but it's not, it's just some junky card made by an offmarket brand like Intel; a company that for years scammed people to buy their overpriced unneeded CPUs, yet AMD surpassed them in every way with Ryzen in terms of security, cores, modularity, etc. even now offering 120$ cpus on the market that come within like 5% of the top intel ones, while intel struggles to pretend they are 'top' by overclocking and scrambling a unique socket/port just to barely pretnd they have a top cpu by like 5-8% or something like that range. I can right now just upgrade my 1600X up like 2 generations for like 100$, no biggie, Intel on the other hand would be some 300$+mobo crap and other changes needed.