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I actually have a B580 that I replaced my old A580 with. I didn't manage to get it for MSRP (because living in Europe does tend to increase the price quite a b
by KronisLV 2y ago
I actually have a B580 that I replaced my old A580 with.
I didn't manage to get it for MSRP (because living in Europe does tend to increase the price quite a bit, a regular RTX 3060 is over 300 EUR here), but I have to say that it's a pretty nice card, when most others seem quite overpriced or outside of my budget.
When paired with an 5800X the performance is good, the XeSS upscaling looks prettier than FSR and pretty close to DLSS, the framegen also seems to have higher quality than FSR (but more latency, from what I've seen), the hardware AV1 encoder is lovely and the other QSV ones are great, though I do wish that I could get a case big enough and a new PSU to have both A580 and B580 in the same computer and use the B580 for games and A580 for the other stuff (not quite sure how well that combination would work, if at all).
Either way, I'm happy that I got the card, especially with a decent CPU (even the A series with my previous Ryzen 5 4500 was an absolute mess, no software showed the CPU being maxed out but it very much was a bottleneck) and do kind of hope that I'll get the likes of performance that you get in War Thunder, or even GTA V Enhanced Edition for the years to come (yes, the raytracing works there as well) or even more recent games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.
If the upscaling/framegen support was even better in most game engines and games, then it could be stretched further or at least used as a band aid for the likes of Delta Force or Forever Winter - games that come out with pretty bad optimization and are taxing on the hardware, with no good way to turn subjectively unnecessary effects or graphical features off, despite the underlying engines themselves being able to scale way down.
At the end of the day, even if Intel Arc won't displace any of the big players in the market, it should improve the market competitiveness which is good for the consumer.