Intel's Open-Source Linux Compute Stack Maturing Very Well For Arc Graphics

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 13 March 2023 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 7 of 8. 15 Comments.

Lastly is the OpenCL-accelerated FluidX3D lattice Boltzmann CFD software, which ran nicely across all GPUs/drivers tested.

FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP32. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

With the FP32-FP32 performance, the Arc Graphics A750/A770 easily outperformed all of the NVIDIA GPUs and AMD GPUs tested. The AMD RDNA2 GPUs struggled here while the A770 was about 23% faster than the RTX 3060.

FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP32. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.
FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP32. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

The Arc Graphics A750/A770 were consuming more power, but on a performance-per-Watt basis was competitive with the tested NVIDIA GPUs.

FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP16S. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.
FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP16C. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

With the FluidX3D FP32-FP16S/FP32-FP16C builds the Arc Graphics A770 still came out ahead of the GeForce RTX 3060 but by a much slimmer margin.

FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP16C. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.
FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP16C. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

On a performance-per-Watt basis the DG2/Alchemist cards were comparable to the tested NVIDIA RTX 20/30 GPUs but consuming much more power.

FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP16C. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

The Intel Arc Graphics desktop graphics cards do compete very well for performance-per-dollar with FluidX3D against NVIDIA and AMD.


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