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Intel Arc 3 month performance check-in: Impressive Call of Duty gains

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February sees the introduction of a new game to the roundup, the eye-catching but temperamental Forspoken, and some surprising framerate gains for a staple title. Plus, some exciting news that occurred mere hours after Keith's video published: Intel is slashing the Arc A750's price to $249! Compared to last month's driver release, the Arc A770 driver didn't change much for most of our testing titles. In GTA V, Counter-Strike GO, Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Total War: Troy, Borderlands 3, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Watch Dogs Legion, and Cyberpunk 2077, the results for the three-month test were in line with (or slightly behind) the two-month test. That's a particular bummer for Cyberpunk, which just got a DLSS boost on the latest Nvidia cards. There was one standout: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Whatever special sauce Intel put into the new driver, it's showing about a 5-10 percent improvement across the board, while 1 percent lows saw a noticeable bump up to 51 frames per second at 1080p and 36 frames per second at 1440 -- that's some solid performance for such a new, graphically-intense game.