Intel DG2 shows up in Ashes of the singularity benchmark - Gives hope to someone (idk who?)

[Lightwreather]

Summary

As Tweeted by @TUM_APISAK, a new Ashes of the Singularity benchmark reveals potential but vague performance figures for Intel's upcoming Arc Alchemist DG2 graphics card. According to the results, we could be looking at performance in the ballpark of an RTX 3070 or RTX 3070 Ti

 

Quotes

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Average FPS in the benchmark hit 126.9 FPS, while the CPU frame rate was able to score a higher 145.8, which isn't surprising given the use of a super-fast Core i9-12900K that should scale very well in this benchmark due to its multi-core optimizations.

Unfortunately, comparing this benchmark result with others remains difficult at best. We have no idea which DG2 GPU was tested, and the GPU was tested using the 1080p medium preset, paired with a Core i9-12900K and 32GB of RAM. That's not a common preset to benchmark within Ashes of the Singularity, and the test is known to be highly influenced by CPU performance.

The main problem is that there are so many missing details, including CPU and GPU clocks, not to mention the Arc DG2 result showing a "0 x 0" resolution. Plus, there's the simple fact that Ashes performance doesn't scale that well with faster GPUs, especially when using the 1080p medium preset. For example, while the 3090 potentially looks to be 11–30% faster than the DG2 result, here's an RTX 2060 result that's only 17% slower than the DG2.

Judging by these results, while we can estimate that the Arc Alchemist is performing similarly to an RTX 3070 Ti or possibly even an RTX 3080, that's only in this specific benchmark at these settings. Extrapolating performance to other games based on Ashes is, at best, unlikely to produce an accurate overall picture of performance. But the fact that pre-release results look decent even in this one (questionable) benchmark is at least something.

 

My thoughts

Well, Intel's DG2 (SKU not really known) has now appeared onto the Ashes of the Sigularity benchmark. And has rather unremarkable performance, which for a new (sort of) player in dGPU space is a pretty good first showing. NOw Ashes isn't really a great benchmark as it doesn't scale very well (see quote), but it performs relatively equal to our expectation of ~RTX3070 performance. Now, the only thing is the cost.....

 

Sources

Tom's hardware

TUM_APISAK - Twitter

[Lightwreather]

2 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Is the DG2 the Intel A380-800 or A350-1000?

idk but it could also very well be the Intel A350-900

[leadeater]

RTX 3070 = unremarkable

 

[StDragon]

7 hours ago, huilun02 said:

So its being compared against an available product based on a single game no one plays, and with settings heavily skewed in its favor

 

Fair to say I learnt nothing of importance

That's going to be a given (not that it makes it right, but just saying). The real important question comes down to the price to performance ratio, and if the drivers are solid. Given the shortages of GPUs, that's the only metric that matters.

 

3 hours ago, leadeater said:

RTX 3070 = unremarkable

 

Link broken, whatever it was.

[leadeater]

53 minutes ago, StDragon said:

Link broken, whatever it was.

Nothing important, just The Bar Too Damn High meme

[Brooksie359]

6 hours ago, leadeater said:

RTX 3070 = unremarkable

 

Honestly if they do get out a product that is equal in performance to the 3070 then they will have a win on their hands. I mean AMD did quite well in the gpu space without a direct competitor to nvidias high end. If Intel could deliver a price competitive 3070 and 3060 gpus then that would still he pretty good imo especially for their first debut in the dedicated gpu space.