Recently, when I was asked by a private message about 2000 yuan, what graphics card is the most cost-effective, I would recommend RX6750 GRE 12G, but some brothers are shy in their pockets, and the budget is so many hundred dollars worse, and there is also a need for white theme installation. When the graphics card budget came to the price of 1500 yuan, there was a graphics card that was not so mainstream that came into my sight: Intel ARC A750 8G graphics card.
Today we are going to evaluate this ARC A750 Photon 8G Asian Games co-branded graphics card from Blue Halberd, and now after the continuous improvement of Intel engineers, the i card driver is no longer as incomplete as when it was first released, and it can provide a very smooth gaming experience. And I'm going to try overclocking to see how the i card overclocks and what the experience is.
Highlights of this article: The overclocking link cut the world's first place in the 12490F+A750, and there are three ARC graphics cards in the article1.AppearanceOn August 15, 2023, the release ceremony of the official graphics processor of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou was held in Hangzhou, Intel officially became the official graphics processor of the Hangzhou Asian Games, and Intel Arc graphics became the official designated graphics processor of the Hangzhou Asian Games. Intel and the non-public manufacturer Blue Halberd have launched two co-branded custom graphics cards for this Asian Games, one is the A750 custom Asian Games special edition graphics card co-branded with Valorant, and the other is the A750 Asian Games special edition graphics card (A750 Photon 8G OC W X Asian Games) printed with the Asian Games logo I received.
The A750 Asian Games Special Edition graphics card is a recolored version of the Blue Halberd series (Photon), which uses the same ACM G10 cores as the A770, but the A770 has 32 sets of XE cores, while the A750 has 28 sets of XE cores, 28 ray tracing units, 448 execution units, 3584 stream processors, and a core base clock of 205GHz, the maximum boost frequency can reach 24GHz, equipped with 8GB GDDR6 video memory, video memory bit width 256bit, video memory bandwidth 512GB s, TDP 195W, maximum power consumption 234W.
The main body of the package is white, and there is the emblem of the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games in the upper right corner, which is composed of six elements: fan, track, Qiantang River, Qianjiang tidehead, Internet symbol and sun graphics. In the graphic design on the right, the Qiantang River is the core of the image, and the image of the tide head of the Qiantang River symbolizes unity and hand in hand, hugging each other closely, and always moving forward.
When you open the package, you can see the white graphics card body wrapped in an electrostatic bag, as well as an installation guide and a description of the color status of the LED lights on the side of the graphics card.
The main body of the graphics card adopts a three-fan heat dissipation design, the center of the left and right fans is the Intel logo, and the middle fan is the emblem of the Hangzhou Asian Games.
It adopts a unique straight blade design to achieve uniform air supply from the tip to the middle of the blade and the root of the blade, improve the overall performance of the fan, and support the fan to start and stop intelligently, when the core temperature is lower than 50, the fan stops and enters the 0rpm mode.
The overall heat dissipation module uses 5 6mm nickel-plated heat pipes, and the public version of the A750 has 4 8mm heat pipes and dual fan heat dissipation design.
The tamper-evident label adopts an irreducible design, and the offset print with the word void will be left when peeled off, which avoids the flow of second-hand graphics cards into the market.
A beautiful pink waistline runs through the entire graphics card on the side, bringing visual tension to the graphics card, there is a blue halberd logo LED light on the right side, the blue light breathes when the graphics card is working normally, the red light lights up on behalf of the power supply connection error, and the yellow light lights up on behalf of the PCIe interface connection error, this design is not very common.
The power supply of the Blue Halberd A750 Asian Games Special Edition adopts a 2*8pin interface, and the upper limit of power consumption in the drive is 234W, compared with the public version of A750, the power supply interface is 8+6Pin, and the upper limit of power consumption in the drive is 228W. However, it is the same as the public version, with 6+2+2 phases of power supply, of which the core power supply is 6 phases, the memory power supply is 2 phases, and the auxiliary power supply is 2 phases.
Compared with the 2-slot thick public version of the graphics card, the Blue Halberd A750 Asian Games Special Edition has a thickness of 50mm, which is about equal to 2The 5-slot thickness doesn't fit well with the extremely compact back-to-back A4 chassis, and the length is also more than 20mm, but fortunately there are almost no over-the-shoulders.
The back adopts a hollow design,Compared with the design of the public version of the stuffy tank, it should be a lot better,**The output interface is still a conventional 3*dp 2.0+1*hdmi 2.0 (HDMI interface is obtained by transferring out the native DP conversion chip), and then enter the exciting overclocking link!
2.Overclocking
Performance testHere I selected three graphics cards for comparison, namely the Blue Halberd A750 Asian Games Special Edition, the public version A750 8G and the public version A770 16G.
Let's start with the testbed:
cpu：intel i5-12490f
Memory: Hynix small green bar 16g*2
Motherboard: MSI Z690 Unify-X
System version: win11 22h2
Driver version: 310.101.4887
The reason why I chose 12490F is because most of the graphics cards at this level of A750 will choose i5 dessert U at this level, and it is super to all-core 52G, which can also emulate the more single-core K-series overclockable processors.
Before officially overclocking, let's take a look at the performance of the Blue Halberd A750 Asian Games Special Edition and the public version of the A750 in 20 rounds of Time Spy by default.
The Blue Halberd A750 Asian Games Special Edition achieved 99 in the stress test6% stability, 99 for the public version1%。At room temperature of 21, the core temperature of Halberd blue is 66, and the memory temperature is 74; The core temperature of the public halberd is 67, and the video memory temperature is 76. It can be seen that the Blue Halberd A750 Asian Games Special Edition has an additional fan, a heat pipe, and a hollow backplate, and the heat dissipation is indeed better.
Next, I ran the silent frequency performance of three cards: the public version A770, the public version A750 and the Blue Halberd A750 Asian Games Special Edition. Among them, the public version is obviously stronger, and under the default voltage, the public version has a higher boost frequency than the blue halberd, and the time is longer.
At this time, the world's highest record of 12490F+A750 ispoints).
Next, overclock the CPU frequency, ring frequency, memory frequency, graphics card frequency, unlock power consumption, and adjust the voltage offset.
got a total score of 13482, 688 points higher than the world record, and even the graphics card part score is higher than the silent frequency score of the public version A770 16G.
Thanks to the heat dissipation design of the Blue Halberd, I don't need to think about the possibility of hitting the temperature wall when adjusting the voltage offset.
But similar to the situation with NVIDIA, the chip physique of the public version of the graphics card is a little better than that of the AIC manufacturer, and I will use the public version to swipe the record (escape) when I have time
3.Summary
The Blue Halberd ARC A750 Asian Games co-branded model is a cost-effective graphics card, the appearance of pure white color and Asian Games elements embellishment, more elegant and beautiful, plus the unique Asian Games co-branded also has a little collection and commemorative significance.
In terms of performance, with the unremitting efforts of Intel, the driver has also been updated in multiple versions, and now Intel's driver is perfect enough to make a lot of progress.
Lower** with better performance, if you've been thinking about replacing your white host with a mainstream-grade white graphics card lately, then the Blue Halberd ARC A750 Asian Games Collaboration would be a pretty good choice.