News Intel's Latest Driver Update Boasts Up to 119% Higher Performance on Arc GPUs

[Admin]

Intel has released another huge driver release for Arc A-series graphics card owners, that sees performance improvements in twenty games with gains of up to 119%. Many of these gains are for older DirectX 11 games, though.

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[evdjj3j]

It would be cool if someone wrote an article using benchmarks to compare how performance has progressed since the cards were first released.

 

[TerryLaze]

Many of these gains are for older DirectX 11 games, though.

That's a good thing, don't make it sound like it's disappointing.
They were already doing well in modern games and nobody thought that they would ever bother with older games so that they are is a good thing.

 

[Elusive Ruse]

Speaking of DX11, can they run Baldur's Gate 3 now?

 

[hannibal]

Gamer nexus did test BGe also with Intel GPUs… It is not pretty, but they are working now!
BG3 is really easy to GPUs. Even 580 is fast enough in act3… the CPUs on the other hand… not so much.

 

[LolaGT]

The hardware was always the real deal, too bad they didn't have decent drivers on debut.
That has always been the catch, though.

 

[kjfatl]

I wonder what comes next with Intel. They knew that it would take years to get the drivers improved, tuned, etc. Is the next step in a couple years a truly high performance card, or will they stick with the 90% of machines sold to business and industrial customers. leaving the high margin boards to Nvidia. I'm sure the engineers at Intel can and want to release a card that will make Nvidia stockholders shake in their boots, but I suspect the business team will be reluctant to make the investment.

 

[TerryLaze]

I wonder what comes next with Intel. They knew that it would take years to get the drivers improved, tuned, etc. Is the next step in a couple years a truly high performance card, or will they stick with the 90% of machines sold to business and industrial customers. leaving the high margin boards to Nvidia. I'm sure the engineers at Intel can and want to release a card that will make Nvidia stockholders shake in their boots, but I suspect the business team will be reluctant to make the investment.

For intel to really get into the GPU market fully they will need to finish building up the FABs, if they can make the GPU tiles themselves that will make their cards cheaper to make for them and they will be able to produce much more of them helping even more with economy of scale. Until them they are just testing the waters and are doing some ground work.

 

[JayNor]

"...if they can make the GPU tiles themselves that will make their cards cheaper to make..."

That's an interesting claim ... although they have been using tsm n5, which perhaps is stable and high yielding.

Intel gets some experience building gpu tiles at tsm and embedding these into their foveros designs. Perhaps tsm will learn to do the same, for example if tsm customers want a tile with the advantages of PowerVIA.

 

[Ogotai]

For intel to really get into the GPU market fully they will need to finish building up the FABs, if they can make the GPU tiles themselves that will make their cards cheaper to make for them and they will be able to produce much more of them helping even more with economy of scale. Until them they are just testing the waters and are doing some ground work.

nope.. its the drivers that intel needs to get right, and fix. intel can make thousands of gpus, if the drivers are still crap, or dont work properly, then no one wants them. that is the case here. when arc 1st came out, stores here had lots on the shelf, now, its down to 2 of most models.. as i said before, those i know were intersted in arc when announced, but then it was released, and the drivers were crap, and now, it seems some have lost interest in arc, because of the drivers. with all of intels money that you sure like to tout, they should of been able to fix them, alot sooer, as they would of been able to hire enough people, and the right people to fix them.

 

[TerryLaze]

nope.. its the drivers that intel needs to get right, and fix. intel can make thousands of gpus, if the drivers are still crap, or dont work properly, then no one wants them. that is the case here. when arc 1st came out, stores here had lots on the shelf, now, its down to 2 of most models.. as i said before, those i know were intersted in arc when announced, but then it was released, and the drivers were crap, and now, it seems some have lost interest in arc, because of the drivers. with all of intels money that you sure like to tout, they should of been able to fix them, alot sooer, as they would of been able to hire enough people, and the right people to fix them.

No amount of perfect drivers will increase the amount of units that they can produce...
They do need to fix their drivers, no question about it, but for them to become a big player in the GPU market they need to be able to produce huge quantities of cards.

 

[Ogotai]

they need to be able to produce huge quantities of cards.

and as i said, if the drivers are crap, they wont sell.. period. it doesnt matter how many they make..

 

[hannibal]

They are bleeding money with ARC… so it would be bad busines to make them more.