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Does shifting 100s GB of game asset decompression to the GPU make sense? We will see with the introduction of DirectStorage 1.1 featuring GDeflate GPU Decompression.

YouTuber Benchmark Lab pits two RTX 3090s in SLI formation against RTX 4090; RTX 4090 wins, but just barely. And only because SLI doesn't work.

Nvidia's new Game Ready driver adds support for the RTX 4090 as well as DX12 optimizations for over a dozen titles.

$289 for the A750, $329/$349 for A770

Intel's midrange Arc A580 GPU is supposed to be quite a bit faster than the A380, but it only competes against entry-level Nvidia GPUs in this alleged Ashes of the Singularity benchmark result.

The German publication PC Games Hardware tests Intel's Arc A380 graphics card across 50 titles between 1999 and 2022.

YouTuber PCGH Benchmarks & Analysis has tested the Arc A380 graphics card on Crysis at 1080p (1920x1080) resolution.

Intel has made the decision to remove native DirectX 9 support from its latest Xe iGPs and Arc GPUs, and replace DX9 with DX12 emulation instead.

Intel shares new gaming benchmarks for the Arc A750 graphics card at 1080p and 1440p on various DirectX 12 and Vulkan titles.

Intel's poor performance on its Arc GPUs surrounding DirectX 11 games, will be a constant issue, that will take a lot of time to work out.