I tried an a380. I was at least hoping it would run better than my old rx560. I had issues with this card stalling out my usb mouse during light gaming. Also while trying to boot with a 21" 1680x1050 monitor it totally corrupted and I couldn't see anything in the bios. It cleared up when the OS came up. Also I forgot that I maybe shouldn't be pairing this with an AMD cpu. And the biggest problem, the height of this card couldn't fit in the desktop case I was trying to put it in.
Just a hack used by us Linux gamers (which also works on windows) is using a translation layer like DXVK and/or VKD3D The reason is with DXVK, you are translating DirectX9-11 APIs (which isn't supported on Arc cards much) to the Vulkan API (which Arc supports) Give it a try on this card Although I don't recommend you do this on multiplayer games with anticheats as it may trigger those
Think I'm going to re-test it with an intel CPU rather than the Ryzen chip I used. Have heard of this and might give it a go but since I've never done it before I'm going to have to look it up 🙂
@@tomstechtable just copy the files to the game folder where the main exe is most of the time 32 or 64 bit version depends on the game... U can also make a dxvk. Conf to enable stuff like async shader compile and masking cards as Nvidia or amd
I'm not doing that. If I was going to all that trouble I'd just run Linux for gaming. I want install and play so I'll go back with my rx 590 until I buy a new rx card.
if your system supports rebar and your primary goal isnt gaming( with its alts being a 1650 or 6400... yuck..), the a380's media supports far better in our testing, i can play 8k60fps with hdr videos on youtube using waterfox with zero dropped frames, the other 2 struggle with 4k60fps videos in my exp.. my 1070 caps out at 4k60fps hdr videos before it starts dropping frames like mad... at 140usd for that base model... if your gonna use it more as a media card, i would def get the a380, with current drivers my buddy is getting very close to 2060super perf in everything hes been testing, dxvk does wonders for older titles that havent been added to the "use the dxvk path" in drivers yet.. (this is also true for nVidia cards and AMD cards to a lesser degree, but sometimes its the only way to get consistant perf out of older titles in my exp. note: i wouldnt get this over a 2nd hand 1070 from jawa for example, that would be about the same price, unless you want the media support and arent worried about the maturing game support and waiting on updates for official support for specific older titles or engines... but, the a380, isnt really a gaming card, neiter are its alternatives really... they are barebones options... to me this price for a new card, is quite acceptable though, more if you get it with the current bundle you get everythng but cod with the a380 bundle, and withht he a750/770 you get 5 games and 3/5 apps.. so yeah.. not bad.. i wouldnt choose it for a gaming card, but i wouldnt choose a 1650ti or 6500xt either.. they are all pretty trash imho.. these need rebar but as long as you have rebar support, they work great.. .this Acer Predator Bifrost is a beast of a card.. and vs my dual 1070 setup, this cards not lost out in any game tested so far even older titles that love SLI... like farcry 5..it loves this card.. but older titles that dont run well on native API also give me sub-par perf on nvidia and amd hardware often, dxvk tends to be installed already in their folders since it smooths perf out quite a bit... raises mins by a good bit even on amd and nvidia hardware.. but on this.. holy crap.. reshade nolonger has the perf hit on games like ESO it does under their native API.. so yeah.. nice!!!
I have the a380.....warzone 2 ran at above 70 fps average and cyberpunk started and ran at 60 fps with both ganes on 1080p at low settings. I dont know how your framerate was that bad.
hmm that's interesting. I might give it another go with an intel cpu then ? maybe it doesn't play nice with amd but I haven't heard anything like that. I triple checked that resize bar was enabled and used ddu to wipe any previous drivers before installing the a380. Weird, happy you're getting the results that you are though !
@@tomstechtable I wouldn't be too surprised at any poor performance on AMD CPUs. There was even a story on Phoronix a month back where you supposedly couldn't even the get the firmware to update without an Intel CPU, much less a non-x86 one. It seems that Arc in general was made and tested with Intel systems in mind and as we all know, the drivers are so scattershot, I had to nuke my Windows install just to update Arc Control. When Arc plays nice, it's a surprisingly great value for the A770 and an interesting new alternative to the 1650/RX 6400 (or more realistically any typical encoder card) for the A380. I've had some decent performance on an overclocked A380 in some benchmarks that wipe the floor with any 1650 and almost reaches 1060/580 performance. The A380 is more of an encoder card though and you really should just buy a used GPU if you want raw gaming performance. When they don't however... they're dumpster fires. Intel has been putting in the legwork to fix the drivers, but until Battlemage launches, no one is really going to waste their time with a second look and that's only if it turns out okay.
@@tomstechtable You do know that the performance drop could bve because of an old driver. Intel have upgraded their drivers for the gpus since release which have improved. Maybe re-installing a driver or getting the latest version is best.
what is even more worse with this Intel gpus are that they costs pretty much in stores and over AMd cards which are faster such as rx 6600 which wipe the floors with a380
Yes the A380 kinda sucks, for the Money its better to buy an 1650. Maybe the intel cards will be better in the future, but at the moment it is a waste of money due to the bad drivers and the compatiblity. But i will buy one if the price drops more. For 100 Bucks its maybe an ok option
I own both of these the Intel arc a380 out performs the 1650 in transcoding. Literally went from waiting to instant transcoding on my Plex server and jellyfin server
intels capture is like relive was at launch buggy as hell... this is not a gaming card, weird that cyberpunk wouldnt load, it load on this nice a770 i have here.. working great infact.. very nice card... first you should give the card a test under something like solus linux with steam/proton/etc, the linux drivers are better then the windows driver for the a380 from my buddies testing... gaming included since all games are running as vk games... if you want a gaming card, the Acer Predator Bifrost a770 is worth the money imho...im loving this card... and one of our friends just sold his bro his 3070 and got this card and spent the rest on doubling his ram to a faster 64gb kit from a 32gb kit... hes quite happy so far, he dual boots linux and windows and, if a game works on linux you can drop the dxvk files into the game folder on windows and it will work most of the time just as well as on linux ;) i tell people not to expect gaming perf from a non-gaming sku all the time and have for decades... anything below a 60 series from nvidia isnt really a gaming card... or 6600/5600/etc for amd..
I tried it in my linux box and it was a shit show. Stalled out my usb keyboard and mouse during very light gaming, etc. Might be that I was running this in an AMD system or something.
I bought this card its amazing. Great transcoding godsend
I tried an a380. I was at least hoping it would run better than my old rx560. I had issues with this card stalling out my usb mouse during light gaming. Also while trying to boot with a 21" 1680x1050 monitor it totally corrupted and I couldn't see anything in the bios. It cleared up when the OS came up. Also I forgot that I maybe shouldn't be pairing this with an AMD cpu.
And the biggest problem, the height of this card couldn't fit in the desktop case I was trying to put it in.
Just a hack used by us Linux gamers (which also works on windows) is using a translation layer like DXVK and/or VKD3D
The reason is with DXVK, you are translating DirectX9-11 APIs (which isn't supported on Arc cards much) to the Vulkan API (which Arc supports)
Give it a try on this card
Although I don't recommend you do this on multiplayer games with anticheats as it may trigger those
Think I'm going to re-test it with an intel CPU rather than the Ryzen chip I used. Have heard of this and might give it a go but since I've never done it before I'm going to have to look it up 🙂
Worst u get from games that use anticheats without dxvk whitlistrd is the game will crash or close out nobody has been banned over dxvk to date
@@tomstechtable just copy the files to the game folder where the main exe is most of the time 32 or 64 bit version depends on the game... U can also make a dxvk. Conf to enable stuff like async shader compile and masking cards as Nvidia or amd
I'm not doing that. If I was going to all that trouble I'd just run Linux for gaming. I want install and play so I'll go back with my rx 590 until I buy a new rx card.
if your system supports rebar and your primary goal isnt gaming( with its alts being a 1650 or 6400... yuck..), the a380's media supports far better in our testing, i can play 8k60fps with hdr videos on youtube using waterfox with zero dropped frames, the other 2 struggle with 4k60fps videos in my exp.. my 1070 caps out at 4k60fps hdr videos before it starts dropping frames like mad...
at 140usd for that base model... if your gonna use it more as a media card, i would def get the a380, with current drivers my buddy is getting very close to 2060super perf in everything hes been testing, dxvk does wonders for older titles that havent been added to the "use the dxvk path" in drivers yet.. (this is also true for nVidia cards and AMD cards to a lesser degree, but sometimes its the only way to get consistant perf out of older titles in my exp.
note: i wouldnt get this over a 2nd hand 1070 from jawa for example, that would be about the same price, unless you want the media support and arent worried about the maturing game support and waiting on updates for official support for specific older titles or engines...
but, the a380, isnt really a gaming card, neiter are its alternatives really... they are barebones options... to me this price for a new card, is quite acceptable though, more if you get it with the current bundle you get everythng but cod with the a380 bundle, and withht he a750/770 you get 5 games and 3/5 apps.. so yeah.. not bad..
i wouldnt choose it for a gaming card, but i wouldnt choose a 1650ti or 6500xt either.. they are all pretty trash imho.. these need rebar but as long as you have rebar support, they work great.. .this Acer Predator Bifrost is a beast of a card.. and vs my dual 1070 setup, this cards not lost out in any game tested so far even older titles that love SLI... like farcry 5..it loves this card.. but older titles that dont run well on native API also give me sub-par perf on nvidia and amd hardware often, dxvk tends to be installed already in their folders since it smooths perf out quite a bit... raises mins by a good bit even on amd and nvidia hardware.. but on this.. holy crap.. reshade nolonger has the perf hit on games like ESO it does under their native API.. so yeah.. nice!!!
can use it to play older games like bf1..gt5 ..skyrim..with my i3 10100?? is so power efficent than old gpus that wy
I have the a380.....warzone 2 ran at above 70 fps average and cyberpunk started and ran at 60 fps with both ganes on 1080p at low settings. I dont know how your framerate was that bad.
hmm that's interesting. I might give it another go with an intel cpu then ? maybe it doesn't play nice with amd but I haven't heard anything like that. I triple checked that resize bar was enabled and used ddu to wipe any previous drivers before installing the a380. Weird, happy you're getting the results that you are though !
@@tomstechtable I wouldn't be too surprised at any poor performance on AMD CPUs. There was even a story on Phoronix a month back where you supposedly couldn't even the get the firmware to update without an Intel CPU, much less a non-x86 one. It seems that Arc in general was made and tested with Intel systems in mind and as we all know, the drivers are so scattershot, I had to nuke my Windows install just to update Arc Control. When Arc plays nice, it's a surprisingly great value for the A770 and an interesting new alternative to the 1650/RX 6400 (or more realistically any typical encoder card) for the A380. I've had some decent performance on an overclocked A380 in some benchmarks that wipe the floor with any 1650 and almost reaches 1060/580 performance. The A380 is more of an encoder card though and you really should just buy a used GPU if you want raw gaming performance.
When they don't however... they're dumpster fires. Intel has been putting in the legwork to fix the drivers, but until Battlemage launches, no one is really going to waste their time with a second look and that's only if it turns out okay.
@@tomstechtable You do know that the performance drop could bve because of an old driver. Intel have upgraded their drivers for the gpus since release which have improved. Maybe re-installing a driver or getting the latest version is best.
@BMuraaz I was using the latest drivers at the time which was mid December, although there is a newer one out now that I used with the A770
No resizable bar enable i bet. Arc GPU need this feature enabled.
I know it sucks it keeps freezing on all my need for speed games. Btw I'm using a b660 board and a i3 12100f and 16 gb memory with resizable bar on.
Anyone would say that Intel should not make any GPUs?
what is even more worse with this Intel gpus are that they costs pretty much in stores and over AMd cards which are faster such as rx 6600 which wipe the floors with a380
Doesn´t the rx 6600 xt cost like double the price?
How can you compare these cards
@@3l_Congroo it cost maybe20% more if that
rx6600 is around 200 bro that like 80% you can get this card for 119 on sale
@@jacobmccoy2637 used rx 6600 you can get for price of new a380 nd used rx 6600 have store warranty
Yes the A380 kinda sucks, for the Money its better to buy an 1650. Maybe the intel cards will be better in the future, but at the moment it is a waste of money due to the bad drivers and the compatiblity. But i will buy one if the price drops more. For 100 Bucks its maybe an ok option
I own both of these the Intel arc a380 out performs the 1650 in transcoding. Literally went from waiting to instant transcoding on my Plex server and jellyfin server
intels capture is like relive was at launch buggy as hell... this is not a gaming card, weird that cyberpunk wouldnt load, it load on this nice a770 i have here.. working great infact.. very nice card... first you should give the card a test under something like solus linux with steam/proton/etc, the linux drivers are better then the windows driver for the a380 from my buddies testing... gaming included since all games are running as vk games...
if you want a gaming card, the Acer Predator Bifrost a770 is worth the money imho...im loving this card... and one of our friends just sold his bro his 3070 and got this card and spent the rest on doubling his ram to a faster 64gb kit from a 32gb kit... hes quite happy so far, he dual boots linux and windows and, if a game works on linux you can drop the dxvk files into the game folder on windows and it will work most of the time just as well as on linux ;)
i tell people not to expect gaming perf from a non-gaming sku all the time and have for decades... anything below a 60 series from nvidia isnt really a gaming card... or 6600/5600/etc for amd..
I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the a770 very soon.
I tried it in my linux box and it was a shit show. Stalled out my usb keyboard and mouse during very light gaming, etc. Might be that I was running this in an AMD system or something.
@@bnolsen Well I think i've learned my lesson, so I'm going to try on a intel chip 😂