Further to this, it is possible to conduct a partial run on Holomark 2.
However, I suspect that I am suffering the same Holomark issues as desribed in this thread:
Regardless, I can get Holomark to run on an Arc A770 LE.
In theory, the performance of an Intel Arc A770 can be now expected to sit between an Nvidia RTX 3060 and an RTX 3070 in many gaming applications, which have now been addressed by Intel (there or thereabouts anyway).
The only other benchmark which is easy available is from Guru3D:
https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/intel_arc_a770_review,8.html
Unfortunately, this test was conducted before the much improved 4091 driver (Guru3D used 3793, all the way back from October 2022), and the Blender result is quite poor compared to a 1080. In general, there is a focus on popular games rather than production/creative applications, so I am not sure this has improved all that much.
Anyway, the aim here was to check if Rhino worked funtionally with the closest benchmark I could find; and it seems to do so; acting at least as a kind of ‘stress test’ to force the GPU to fall over. If I see anything abnormal when modelling, I will report back here.
For completeness, here are some scrappy results from the command window, if anyone can make sense of them. The failure as far as I understand is due to problems of Holomark, rather than anything to do with the GPU*:
*It may be worth noting that if Holomark is failing to close other windows, the possibly poor performance below may be expected, given it isn’t discarding previous results and is stacking infoirmation in the GPU(?).
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Preparing Holomark 2 R6 v2,61
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Rhino 7 sr 28 64 bit
Starting Holomark2
Rhino’s language is English
Time to regen viewport 10 times = 0.16 seconds. (64.10 FPS)
Time to regen viewport 10 times = 0.17 seconds. (58.14 FPS)
Calculating Contours
Contour: 1.60485 s
GPU_01 Cube 4 tests took :9.3 sec @ 930.2 fps.
GPU_02 Test took :0.68 sec @ 147.1 fps.
Time to regen viewport 10 times = 0.01 seconds. (666.67 FPS)
GPU_03 Test took :0.16 sec @ 625.0 fps.
GPU_04 Test took :0.09 sec @ 1111.1 fps.
GPU_05 Test took :0.63 sec @ 158.7 fps.
GPU_06 Test took :0.81 sec @ 123.5 fps.
Your system handled 269 units before dropping below 5 fps
Your system handled 66 units before dropping below 5 fps
Your system handled 15 units before dropping below 5 fps
GPU_10 Test took :0.28 sec @ 357.1 fps.
GPU_11 Test took :0.09 sec @ 1111.1 fps.
GPU_12 Test took :0.13 sec @ 769.2 fps.
GPU_13 Test took :0.03 sec @ 3333.3 fps.
*CPU_01 Booleans and Contours took :2.38 sec *
*CPU_02 UDT Shape took :0.6 sec *
*CPU_03 Meshing Rhino took :1.67 sec *
*CPU_04 ExtractRendermesh took :0.05 sec *
*CPU_05 Joining meshes took :0.02 sec *
Your system handled 63 units before dropping below 15 fps