A770/750 with Star Citizen

[ntindle]

I’m currently running on integrated Ryzen graphics. Has anyone tried these cards? I don’t need to to be great, just better. 
 

[Shimejii]

Just buy a 6600XT. Or a Used GPU, will perform better for the 330-350$+tax

[IkeaGnome]

1 minute ago, ntindle said:

I’m currently running on integrated Ryzen graphics. Has anyone tried these cards? I don’t need to to be great, just better. 
 

They aren't out for sale yet. Just reviews. Unless a review has covered Star Citizen, no. No one has tried with Intel dGPUs yet. 

[Zando_]

If I magically have $300ish next month then I'll let ya know, otherwise uh. No, I would not advise buying an ARC card with the intention of playing Star Citizen. It's gotten a lot better but it's still very much Star Citizen, throwing a bugfest of a card into a bugfest of a game sounds like a terrible idea. 

[dizmo]

Isn't that game super demanding? I wouldn't. IMO there's a very niche use for the card, and I don't think that game falls into it.

If you have some money to play around with, buy a computer with a 6700 or 6800 in it, sell of the rest, and you should come out with a high end card for a couple hundred dollars.

[Middcore]

Agree with @Shimejii that you would be better off to just buy an RX 6600/XT or one of the various secondhand cards hovering in this price range than to wait however long it takes Intel Arc cards to actually show up at retailers and then risk the headaches of being an early adopter. 

 

Things aren't how they were a year ago, if your budget for a GPU is ~$350 or under you actually have a pretty good assortment of options now, it makes sense for Intel to throw their hat in the ring in this market segment first but it's also not a segment that's begging for disruption. 

[BiotechBen]

While ARC has shown it's really good at synthetic workloads, and really only does DX12 and Vulkan, until drivers are matured I wouldn't try playing Game Dev Guinea Pig Simulator, on ARC. 

 

Will be interested to see how they work as workstation compute cards though. 

[Zando_]

19 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Isn't that game super demanding?

Yesn't. I have a friend who plays on a quad core i7/16GB RAM/2070 laptop, and have seen people in chat claiming they have only a 1050 Ti. It's just... horribly inconsistent is the easiest way to put it. If your PC is good for AAA games at settings you deem acceptable (and the CPU supports AVX instructions), it will run Star Citizen, can't say how well or not aside from some pretty wide ballpark guesses. Thus why it isn't something I'd recommend buying what's basically a beta GPU for . 

[jaslion]

12 hours ago, dizmo said:

Isn't that game super demanding?

Yes and no.

 

Its demanding because its buggy and pushing the graphics api in ways its not at all supposed to be pushed.

 

Put those graphics in a not overloaded engine with waaay too many drawcalls and use an api that handles it better and it simply works far better :p. (also some model optimization reallllllly wouldnt hurt)

 

So basically throw that + a card that isnt good at dx11 and well enjoy no fps

[ntindle]

On 10/5/2022 at 6:03 PM, IkeaGnome said:

They aren't out for sale yet. Just reviews. Unless a review has covered Star Citizen, no. No one has tried with Intel dGPUs yet. 

Was not aware of this. That makes a lot of sense why I can’t find anything on it. 
 

Thanks!

[ntindle]

On 10/5/2022 at 6:10 PM, Middcore said:

Agree with @Shimejii that you would be better off to just buy an RX 6600/XT or one of the various secondhand cards hovering in this price range than to wait however long it takes Intel Arc cards to actually show up at retailers and then risk the headaches of being an early adopter. 

 

Things aren't how they were a year ago, if your budget for a GPU is ~$350 or under you actually have a pretty good assortment of options now, it makes sense for Intel to throw their hat in the ring in this market segment first but it's also not a segment that's begging for disruption. 

So the reason I ask is I’m probably a great fit for an early adopter for the graphics card.

 

I have significant background knowledge that would benefit big reports, I can gladly wait between releases due to my work schedule, and I don’t give a hoot about graphics quality. 
 

I’m playing at 1920 x 1080 on my 1440p monitors at 30 fps with built in graphics on low quality. It doesn’t bother me because after a long day of work, too much graphics is honestly over stimulating.