One of the most common synthetic tests to measure the performance of one graphics card compared to another are those created by FutureMark. Which serve NVIDIA, AMD and recently Intel as a reliable example to say that their designs are better than the competition. Well, finally the 3DMark performance of the A770M and A550M belonging to the ARC Alchemist family has been revealed. Are these reliable results or, on the contrary, should we wait an additional time to find out how the graphics of our favorite games move?
One of the biggest obsessions of the brands responsible for manufacturing both processors and graphics cards is to show the public that their product is better. Since raw power is a value, the fact that your product is faster means that you can sell it more expensively and, therefore, earn more money. This is where synthetic stress tests come in that serve to validate, in one way or another, the quantitative and qualitative performance of a processor or graphics card compared to its similar ones. However, manufacturers have learned to trick them, so you have to tread carefully. Let’s see how the A550M and A770M perform under 3Dmark.
This is how the A550M and A770M graphics cards perform in 3DMark
Intel continues the deployment of its ARC Alchemist with a dropper, after the launch of the laptops with the ARC 3, now it is the turn of its older brothers. And it is that Intel has published in 3DMark the result of two laptops with its i7-12700H as a processor , but with two different GPUs. On one side, the A550M and on the other the A770M,
As you can see, in the Fire Strike test the A770M reaches 8843 points , while the A550M in TIME SPY obtains 6457 points. In any case, at the moment we do not know a single laptop that will carry these models, although it serves as proof that the chips are already fully functional and it should not take long to see them in our hands. In any case, these results are close to the performance of NVIDIA and AMD laptop graphics.
Are these results valid?
However, these results have to be taken with tweezers . The reason for this is that Intel in order to get better performance with its A550 and A770M in 3DMark have made certain tricks in the driver or graphics controller . Therefore, this score could not be reliably reflected in the games in the form of performance. Hence, in the results it is made clear and in small print that there is cheating. Honestly, we’ll just have to wait for these laptops to come out and see how they perform compared to what NVIDIA and AMD have to offer.
It’s no secret that Intel’s ARC Alchemists come with a considerable lag, in any case the excess inventory of graphics currently out there can buy them some time on the desktop. Although where they go with the correct timing is in laptops, since we do not expect the RX 7000 and RTX 40 Mobile until well into 2023. In any case, what interests us is their performance in games. Although we will have to wait a while for this. Can Intel give the bell and surprise us all? At the moment, the only thing we can get is that we finally have the test of an A550M and an A770M working, if only through 3DMark.
