After doing our follow-up review of the Intel Arc A750 this June 2023, is it good? The easy answer is yes, the Intel Arc A750 is a good graphics card option in 2023. But it gets more layered than that. Price has been in favor of Intel’s Arc Graphics cards in recent months and depending on where you’re located, its actually not the price of the card itself but the price of other cards on the market. That said, with AMD and NVIDIA having both mixed receptions for their mid-tier cards, last-gen options are still good. Unfortunately, those cards are still out of reach in certain markets despite how cheap western Youtubers make it out to be.
To give you a quick idea of how good the gaming performance of the system we’re testing, we’ve averaged the results for your reference presented in overll average and esports average (CSGO, DOTA2, Siege, Apex, PUBG, OW2, Valorant). The results below primarily show the improvement over each driver generation of the Intel Arc A750 as well as the relative scaling from previous drivers.
Relative Performance
You can check out more details in the full review of the Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition which serves as our 2023 update for the Intel Arc A750 performance which has been receiving performance update constantly. For a variant card, we also have a review of the ASRock Arc A750 Challenger card here.
Anyway, the Arc A750 given its price provides a competitive option dollar for dollar at certain scenarios specifically if you’re only gunning for DX12 games and you also plan to use the card as an AV1 accelerator. That specific combo makes this card an enticing option in that respect especially that last-gen cards from NVIDIA and AMD both can’t do AV1 encoding.
Final Thoughts
If you’re considering this card this in 2023, by this point in time the Intel Arc A750 is a competitive card in most regions. While pure gaming usage may still favor the Radeon RX 6600, sadly it is not as available as it appears to be from media reports. This, along with market difference in pricing and availability, makes the RX 6600 either a no-show or still priced quite high in some regions where the Intel Arc A750 may be priced more competitively. Also, the RX 6600 is heading for end-of-life as the RX 7600 is already in the market.
The RTX 3060 is still priced quite high in some markets including the Philippines which hurts its competitiveness against the Intel Arc A750. The ultimate competitiion here boils down to power draw. The RTX 3060 relatively draws less than the Intel Arc A750 and Intel’s performance do flounder from game to game but the majority of popular, modern games have been optimized to play quite well on Intel Arc Graphics, not to mention that Intel’s implementation of XeSS is far more competent than AMD’s solution.
The cherry on top and the ultimate decision maker is AV1. While your system from last-gen may play AV1, it will not be able to decode it. Which means that if you’re into keeping a library of videos and want it as small as possible, AV1 encoding is a feature you might want.
This isn’t a straight recommendation and in this case, its best that buyers are provided with all the details when buying this card before they decide to proceed. That said, if you have anymore questions, let me know down at the comments and I will be very happy to help you out.
