After a longer abstinence here, at least with the articles, I am now back with a small Intel ARC special. The cards have a niche existence, which is on the one hand due to the rather poor availability, especially of custom models, but also due to the rather mixed tests of the cards after their release in November, where the cards showed weaknesses especially in older titles and APIs. I wanted to take a look at the current state of Intel cards myself and decided to buy an Asrock Phantom ARC 770.
To my surprise, the card only carries 8GB of Vram, which is a bit surprising since only Intel’s Limited Edition with the full 16GB of memory has been on the market so far. To make matters worse, the memory in this custom model is only clocked at 2000 Mhz instead of the 2188 Mhz available in the Limited Edition. In the article I will briefly go into my experiences from practical use of the card and the drivers, I will also cover a small review of the card and highlight the topic of overclocking and undervolting. Finally, there are some little tricks for ARC owners about an OC tool and how to conjure up the long-lost fan curve in the ARC Control Center. Enjoy reading. Criticism gladly in the comments.
Review of the Asrock Phantom ARC 770
The Phantom comes in a fancy box and is decently packaged. There are no accessories beyond that, only instructions on how to start up the card correctly and a clear reference to the need for RBar. The card itself makes a high-quality impression, has a metal backplate, a nice big cooler and is not stingy with RGB lighting, which can be seen in the form of a longitudinal stripe on the card and on the middle of the three fans. The cooler is generously dimensioned for the card, which can draw 210 watts of ASIC power, which should correspond to about 250 watts. Thus, the GPU has 20 watts more available than Intel’s Limited Edition and also has to supply less memory with power.
In practice, this means that the card does not necessarily exhaust its performance budget, especially in DX11 titles, especially at FHD resolution. The maximum possible power consumption that can be set is 252 watts ASIC, which should result in well over 300 watts. The card’s cooler has a good grip on the chip and the memory. Normally, there are just 1350 revolutions, which result in a GPU temperature of 64 degrees and a memory temperature of 74 degrees. In the synthetic benchmarks or in particularly demanding games, the card is at about 1500 revolutions with 68 degrees GPU.
The card is almost imperceptible as long as you don’t stick your ear to the case, or slightly audible under high load. Coil whine is present, as with every modern card, but usually not audible apart from very high frame rates or overclocking. The workmanship is impeccable all around for a product in this price range. An excellent result that Asrock delivers here with the Phantom. Apart from the 8 GB memory and the throttled memory speed, there is nothing to complain about the card and its implementation. When installed, the card looks chic and high-quality, as expected. There is a small swtich to disable the LEDs. A dual bios is not available.
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