Intel's Arc A380 discrete graphics card has finally launched in China at roughly the exact time frame we predicted and while a couple of initial reviews have been posted, we hadn't seen a more holistic overview yet so decided to reach out to some of our Chinese colleagues.

We got our hands on the official data provided for the A380 GPU; which tells the story of Intel's first real discrete graphics card with tons of potential.

The Intel Arc A380 graphics card is built on the TSMC N6 process and is the company's first discrete graphics card launch.

All of the testing in the official benchmarks was done using an Intel Core i5 12600k with 32 GB of 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM and Windows 11 OS and a 4TB NVME SSD.

Only the GPUs, ie the GTX 1650, RX 6400 and Intel Arc A380 were swapped between them.

As we can see, the Intel Arc A380 trades blows with the AMD RX 6400 and (less occasionally) with the NVIDIA GTX 1650.

Allow me to expand: the Intel Arc A380 absolutely crushes the GTX 1650 and RX 6400 in 3DMark's TimeSpy benchmark and even beats the RX 6500 XT.

Depending on how fast Intel is able to optimize the driver stacks for various games and how they price their Arc GPUs (131 USD would be a steal for the A380 but I suspect we will see an MSRP closer to 150 USD when it does launch in the US) - even 150 USD could be a potential win considering it has the hardware to be just behind the NVIDIA RTX 3050 - which is a $249 MSRP GPU