Intel ARC B580 GPU - APB Reloaded

[Uhtdred 249]

Anyone has this GPU? If you have it, can you tell me if it's working properly while playing APB? I plan to replace my GTX 1650 Super with this new GPU.

Edited April 3 by Uhtdred

[Deadliest 393]

Makes 0 difference when playing apb.

 

you want real performance gain go with 

 

amd ryzen 7 9800xD

 

500+fps

[Uhtdred 249]

8 hours ago, Deadliest said:

Makes 0 difference when playing apb.

 

you want real performance gain go with 

 

amd ryzen 7 9800xD

 

500+fps

I have ryzen 5 7600 and because I play with very low graphics I already average 400-500fps, but my question was if there's anything wrong about this gpu especifically with APB, since it's a very new GPU.

[sweetLemonade 125]

20 hours ago, Uhtdred said:

Anyone has this GPU? If you have it, can you tell me if it's working properly while playing APB? I plan to replace my GTX 1650 Super with this new GPU.

Arc/Battlemage GPUs do not perform well in OpenGL & D3D9–D3D11 (DX9–DX11) titles due to their driver overhead penalty.
APB is a D3D9 title, all effects render on the CPU.
The driver causes massive stuttering even in CPU-limited scenarios, where the GPU usage is low. This is just a driver software limitation, perhaps a architectural limitation to some extent as well since Intel focused (& still focuses solely) on D3D12 (DX12) performance only. Even Vulkan was subpar on Arc & Battlemage cards, last time I checked.

I would, instead, recommend you to go for a ≥12GB VRAM Nvidia GPU, at minimum Ampere (30-series) architecture or newer.
There's a reason their usage market share is that large.

Edited April 4 by sweetLemonade

[Uhtdred 249]

yup, massive stuttering. DO NOT BUY Intel arc b580 if you wan't to play APB, gonna have to replace the GPU or quit apb for ever tbh

Edited April 14 by Uhtdred

[Mitne 731]

On 4/4/2025 at 7:43 PM, sweetLemonade said:

Arc/Battlemage GPUs do not perform well in OpenGL & D3D9–D3D11 (DX9–DX11) titles due to their driver overhead penalty.
APB is a D3D9 title, all effects render on the CPU.
The driver causes massive stuttering even in CPU-limited scenarios, where the GPU usage is low. This is just a driver software limitation, perhaps a architectural limitation to some extent as well since Intel focused (& still focuses solely) on D3D12 (DX12) performance only. Even Vulkan was subpar on Arc & Battlemage cards, last time I checked.

I would, instead, recommend you to go for a ≥12GB VRAM Nvidia GPU, at minimum Ampere (30-series) architecture or newer.
There's a reason their usage market share is that large.

Intel does want to focus on backward compatibility so that diagnosis will be hopefully not true in future.

[Uhtdred 249]

looks like it has some cache issues, there are a lot of fps drop until map is fully loaded...