In recent hours, the Intel Arc A730M dedicated laptop graphics chip has been leaked in detail regarding its performance. The first one reported a 3DMark Time Spy benchmark score of over 10,000 points. A score obviously very flattering placing the Intel chip, which is however not the top of the range, above a mobile GeForce RTX 3070. The same leaker also disclosed the 3DMark Fire Strike scores he would have obtained with the same laptop equipped with the Arc A730M GPU. In this case, the GPU falls somewhere between an RTX 3060 and an RTX 3070 laptop.
However, a few hours later, other leaks came to “shower” the optimism that cradled these first figures. Indeed, the same leaker then tested this laptop equipped with the Intel Arc A730M GPU in a number of games ( Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Metro Exodus, F1 2020 ). And there, the story is not the same. Indeed, the scores obtained bring the performance back to the level of RTX 3050/3060 cards, far from the 3070 and 3070Ti mentioned at the beginning.
Since the beginning, the rumor about the delay of the ARC cards release is explained by driver problems. This obvious difference between the synthetic tests and the situation in games seems to strongly confirm this hypothesis. The current drivers for ARC GPUs would therefore suffer from a significant lack of optimization for games.
