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Yeah if I look up Intel's GPUs in the open-source Blender benchmark for 3D performance [1], the leading Intel Arc A770 GPU is slower than ... the NVidia GeForce RTX 2070?! Which came out in 2019 [2], so Intel's latest GPUs are slower than NVidia's chips that are 2 generations and 4 years old.

  - [1] https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=OPTIX&compute_type=CUDA&compute_type=HIP&compute_type=METAL&compute_type=ONEAPI&group_by=device_name&blender_version=3.6.0
  - [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_20_series

The Arc A770 came out in the time of the 30x0 series, so it would be more fair to say that it is slower than a higher end card one generation older than it. That isn't an uncommon occurrence. For instance, the 2070s are often faster than the 3060s, and the A770 was supposed to be roughly aiming for 3060 performance.

Overall, I'd call it close enough in performance that I'd be interested in giving it a try. On the work side, I worry more about being bitten by lack of CUDA (although I like the look of SYCL that Intel/Kronos push as an alternative), and on the gaming side, I worry more about how if DX10/DX11 titles will ever really get sorted out. Still, when I get a desktop that supports Resizable BAR, I will likely put an Intel GPU in that machine to give it a try.

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