Gameplay Performance at 1440p with Ray Tracing
We are going to focus on 1440p gameplay performance with Ray Tracing on the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition video card on this page. 1080p will be tested on the next page. We will include XeSS, FSR, and DLSS performance on the same graph in the games that are supported. For video card comparisons we are using an EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 XC BLACK GAMING, MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X, and SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 6600 GAMING.
Forspoken
Forspoken was released on January 24th, 2023, on the PC and uses the Luminous Engine. The game supports all upscaling methods, including NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, and Intel XeSS, and Ray Tracing. We are going to customize the settings and enable the highest graphics settings, including Ultra High Texture Memory. We are going to enable both Ray Tracing options, Shadows, and Ambient Occlusion. We use the built-in benchmark.
To be clear, we are not expecting the greatest performance or playable gameplay experience at 1440p with Ray Tracing on these video cards, but we wanted to include this test to really push them all, and test them thoroughly. Perhaps with upscaling, some of the games might be possible, we will see.
In Forspoken, this game is incredibly demanding at 1440p once we turn on Ray Tracing and the highest game options. The Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition is not playable, even with upscaling XeSS. However, what is still impressive is that it is beating the performance of even the GeForce RTX 3060 here, of which the RTX series is known for its great Ray Tracing performance. The Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition is 17% faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 with Ray Tracing turned on. With Intel XeSS upscaling, performance is identical to the RTX 3060 with DLSS, which is pretty competitive. The two Radeon cards are completely bottlenecked in this game with Ray Tracing.
F1 2022
F1 2022 was released on June 28th, 2022 on the PC and uses Codemasters Ego engine. The game supports Ray Tracing, DLSS, AMD FidelityFX, and FSR. We are going to run the game with the highest quality settings of “Ultra High” and TAA+FidelityFX. We will enable all Ray Tracing options in the game to “On.” We will enable DLSS and FSR as needed at the Quality setting for both. We will utilize the built-in benchmark in the Imola track, in dry conditions with a far chasing cam.
In F1 2022, at 1440p with maximum Ray Tracing we also see that this game is not playable on any video card here until we enable upscaling technologies. The Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition is performing better than the Radeon RX 6600 XT with Ray Tracing, but the GeForce RTX 3060 does edge it out slightly. The Intel Arc A770 is 18% faster than the Radeon RX 6600 XT but 8% slower than the GeForce RTX 3060. Now once we enable upscaling, the Arc A770, RTX 3060 and RX 6600 XT are all playable at 60FPS, which is pretty important. The Intel Arc A770 can deliver a playable Ray Tracing experience in this game at 1440p with FSR.
Dying Light 2
Dying Light 2 was released in February 2022 on the PC and uses Techland’s C-Engine. We have updated the game to patch 1.90. The game supports Ray Tracing, DLSS, and FSR2. This game supports Ray Tracing environmental effects including Ray Traced Soft Shadows, Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion, Ray Traced Global Illumination, and Ray Traced Reflections. We utilize the built-in preset option to set “HIGH-QUALITY RAYTRACING” which enables the game’s highest graphics settings plus the environmental effects explained above at the highest values. The game is run in DX12 Ultimate mode with ASYNC Compute turned on. We use the built-in benchmark.
Dying Light 2 is incredibly demanding, and with Ray Tracing at 1440p none of the video cards are playable. Even with upscaling, the game struggles, except for maybe the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition which honestly does really good compared to the competition with Intel XeSS upscaling. In performance, the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition is 16% faster than the GeForce RTX 3060, which once again is very surprising. It’s also a big 50% faster than the Radeon RX 6600 XT, so that’s huge. When we enable Intel XeSS in this game performance jumps up another 58% to now 50FPS, which is very decent considering the resolution and Ray Tracing. With Intel XeSS the Arc A770 is 14% faster than the RTX 3060 with DLSS.
Far Cry 6
Far Cry 6 was released in October of 2021 and uses the Dunia Engine. We utilize the built-in benchmark for testing. We have the HD Texture pack installed and turned on. We utilize the “Ultra” graphics preset which sets all options to the highest game settings. This game supports Ray Tracing via two DXR settings, one for Reflections and the other for Shadows, we turn on both for testing. This game supports FSR upscaling.
Far Cry 6 is actually playable on the Intel Arc A770 with DXR enabled at 1440p without the need for upscaling. We are getting 71FPS at 1440p with DXR Ray Tracing enabled! What’s even more exciting, is that once again the Arc A770 is faster than the RTX 3060 by 15%, and 42% faster than the Radeon RX 6600 XT. FSR does help performance even more and brings it up to over 80FPS at 1440p with Ray Tracing in FC6.
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 was released in December of 2020 and uses the REDengine 4. We have the game patched to version 1.61 and use the built-in benchmark. We test using the Graphics Preset option to set graphics settings. We use the Ray Tracing Graphics Preset of either: “Ray Tracing: Low”, or “Ray Tracing: Medium” or “Ray Tracing: Ultra” as indicated. This game supports DLSS and FSR2.
As we expected in Cyberpunk 2077, this game is unplayable at 1440p with “Ultra” Ray Tracing. But once again, what is really exciting is that the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition is on par with the GeForce RTX 3060 using Ray Tracing! Unfortunately, even with FSR2 performance isn’t good enough to be playable, but it does match the RTX 3060 with DLSS.
Watch Dogs Legion
Watch Dogs Legion was released on the PC in October of 2020 and uses the Disrupt game engine. We utilize the built-in benchmark for testing. We have the HD Texture pack installed and enabled for testing. We use the built-in graphics preset of “Ultra” for testing. We utilize the “Ultra” preset quality option for Ray Tracing. This game supports DLSS upscaling.
Watch Dogs Legion is unplayable at 1440p with Ray Tracing, but we do see the Intel Arc A770 edge out the RTX 3060 by 18%. The two Radeon cards are bottlenecked with Ray Tracing.
Metro Exodus Enhanced
Metro Exodus Enhanced is being run with Shading Quality at “Extreme” and Ray Tracing at “Ultra.” This is a demanding game, that heavily focuses on Ray Tracing utilization, including Global Illumination. We are utilizing the built-in benchmark.
Metro Exodus Enhanced is a particularly important game to test Ray Tracing performance with. This game uses a robust implementation of Ray Tracing, including Global Illumination. This is a good representation of which video cards are best at Ray Tracing as a technical feature. The Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition blows the competition out of the water here, providing 62% higher Ray Tracing performance compared to the GeForce RTX 3060. This is amazing, to say the least. Compared to the Radeon RX 6600 XT it is 79% faster. This boads good things for Intel Arc Ray Tracing performance.