Intel Arc A770 16GB plays better then Nvidia RTX 3070 8GB

[enderbeta]

I have some other machines I have been testing. One is another i9-10900K with an AI 280mm cooler and a RTX 3070 Founders Edition. The other is a i9-11900K with a air cooler and an Arc A770 16GB Limited Edition.

It is interesting to note two things. The AIO i9-10900K with no overclocking maintains 1 minute of simulation time per second at the max speed in game. The i9-11900K on air with no overclocking is at 1 minute of simulation time per two seconds.

The other thing is the Arc A770 16GB doesn't have stuttering issues where the frame rate massively dips at times like the RTX 3070. I haven't compared the actual frame rates or gauged the average FPS to make any kind of statement, but in testing the Arc A770 16GB was not stuttering or jerking around graphically.

i won't have time to swap the processors and see how the i9-11900K does in the AIO because that machine is selling at lunch time today but I might toss it in the triple 360mm water cooling loop to see. I suspect that it will not do much better and not be able to keep up with the 10900K because of the two missing cores.

[archonsod]

What size city were you testing it with? CPU doesn't really come into it until you're in the 3K+ pop size. Bottleneck prior to that is the VRAM; I suspect the game really needs a minimum of 12Gb.

[enderbeta]

My city has 172,000 people. The simulation time is not the vram. If that was the case I would see the i9-10900K with the RTX 3070 running at one simulation minute per two seconds.

The stutters moving around the city with the RTX 3070 I think where squarely the lack of vram. I am sure it would have been much better with 16GB because when vram is not an issue it is better then a ARC A770.

[Raptorlake]

Depends on what Resolution you are playing, i only played with 1250x1080 75hz screen and 1920x1080 280hz screen. Did not have any stutter issues with the 3070. Overall fps from 3070 is higher especially with upscaling and Raytracing.

That said a770 with its recent updates does provide significant increase in Overall FPS.

But yeah its a pretty neat card and the 16gb might benefit you in future games.

[enderbeta]

I play at 1440P