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The Arc A750 is primarily a 1080p, and perhaps a 1440p gaming solution. So we'll start with 1080p ultra, then 1440p ultra, and then move on to 1080p medium and 4K ultra. Those last two are more to show the full range of performance, though CPU bottlenecks tend to come into play at 1080p medium while 4K ultra mostly requires far more potent GPUs.
At 1080p ultra, the Arc A750 just barely edges past the RTX 3060, with 76 fps across our test suite compared to 75 fps. That also puts it a bit ahead of AMD's less expensive RX 6600, while the RX 6600 XT and 6650 XT are over 10% faster. The A750 also rips past the RTX 3050, delivering nearly 40% better performance on average.
Looking at the individual game charts, Total War: Warhammer 3 is the only game where the A750 didn't break 60 fps, though it's not the type of game where buttery smooth framerates are necessary. The RTX 3060 and A750 each win in half of the games, with Borderlands 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Watch Dogs Legion favoring A750 by 10–20%, while Forza Horizon 5 and Horizon Zero Dawn give the 3060 a 10% or more lead.
Against the AMD GPUs, the A750 only claims wins in Red Dead Redemption 2 and Total War: Warhammer 3. Meanwhile, the RX 6650 XT leads by 18–36% in Borderlands 3, Far Cry 6, Forza Horizon 5, and Horizon Zero Dawn. So if all you care about is standard (non-ray tracing) gaming performance, the RX 6650 XT gets an easy recommendation. $20 more for 15% better performance and far more mature driver support? Yes, please.
Thanks to its 256-bit memory interface, 1440p ultra improves the A750's relative standings compared to the competition. It's now 5% faster than the 3060 overall and only a few percent behind the RX 6650 XT and 6600 XT. However, across the eight games, the A750 averages just a hair under 60 fps, which means some games will be above that mark, and others could fall well short.
The individual games show A750 performance ranging from a low of just 36 fps (Warhammer 3) to a high of 74 fps (Far Cry 6 and Horizon Zero Dawn), so everything is still playable. If you're serious about 1440p gaming, though, we'd drop a few of the more demanding settings a notch or two just to help boost performance — shadow and lighting effects are usually good candidates.
1080p medium performance isn't as strong on the A750, probably due to drivers holding it back. There are a few games where performance is still very competitive, but Horizon Zero Dawn appears to run headlong into a CPU bottleneck with Arc — it's 35% slower than an RTX 3060 in that game, and also slower than the RTX 3050.
Intel will hopefully continue to iron out any performance snags, so there's potential for the A750 to improve by 10 to 20 percent overall. Whether Intel will actually manage that level of optimizations over the coming months will be interesting to see.
Finally, 4K ultra clearly isn't a strong point for the Arc A750. Nearly every game still cleared 30 fps in our suite, Flight Simulator and Warhammer 3 being the exceptions, but there's a reason we don't have 4K data for some of the competing GPUs. Maybe we'll fill in those results the next time we retest the cards, but 4K ultra is mostly the domain of graphics cards that cost $700 or more.
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