News Intel's New GPU Drivers Boosterformance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12

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The driver notes state that the improvements are vs a couple of drivers released in October. So the games were likely already working. But unfortunately I don't play any of those games and only have one or two of them.
I'll check it out though. Not expecting a lot with Starfield, that isn't a good game with Arc, but I'm just about done with that. Maybe the Phantom Liberty expansion will get an improvement. Arc does well with that game and it is next on my playlist.
 
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Wow Intel is actually doing it this time around. Every time they've attempted to enter the GPU market, it was always the drivers that sunk them. Both nVidia and ATI poured insane amounts of money into optimizing and refining their drivers, so it's good to see a third party catching up, especially since Intel is targeting the market that the other manufacturers seem to have completely abandoned.
 
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helper800 said:
1 => 75 fps would be a 7500% increase in fps.
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This is a reason I don't like percent increases. They aren't intuitive until you get used to them.
1 -> 2 = 100% increase.
1 -> 7.5 = 650% increase (1 -> 2 = 100%, 1 -> 3 = 200%, 1 -> 4 = 300%, 1 -> 5 = 400%, 1 -> 6 = 500%, 1 -> 7 = 600%, 1 -> 7.5 = 650%)
So, 1 -> 75 = 7400% increase.
 
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slightnitpick said:
This is a reason I don't like percent increases. They aren't intuitive until you get used to them.
1 -> 2 = 100% increase.
1 -> 7.5 = 650% increase (1 -> 2 = 100%, 1 -> 3 = 200%, 1 -> 4 = 300%, 1 -> 5 = 400%, 1 -> 6 = 500%, 1 -> 7 = 600%, 1 -> 7.5 = 650%)
So, 1 -> 75 = 7400% increase.
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A 75 times increase to the fps would be 7500%, it is inclusive. One times 75 is 75 not 74. 1 => 2 is a 100% increase as a difference, but 200% of the original. The difference in what we are saying is that you are telling me the raw increase in fps as a percentage without context to the original fps, and I and telling you the new total fps compared to the original as a percentage. An increase as a percentage is done as a multiplication in this case.
 
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Does anyone actually know how much FPS this game was getting with the previous driver version? I don't believe it was 1 FPS so I'm guessing the new driver is more than comfortable to play with.
 
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helper800 said:
A 75 times increase to the fps would be 7500%, it is inclusive. One times 75 is 75 not 74. 1 => 2 is a 100% increase as a difference, but 200% of the original. The difference in what we are saying is that you are telling me the raw increase in fps as a percentage without context to the original fps, and I and telling you the new total fps compared to the original as a percentage. An increase as a percentage is done as a multiplication in this case.
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Its a bit semantic honestly, the increase was only 74 (1+74 = 75) but it is 75x the improvement. Both are right. It all depends on your perspective and what you think is the appropriate way to portray improvements. Traditionally I have always seen it as (New-Old)/OId, hence I would agree that it is a 7400% performance uplift, although it is 75 times faster.
 
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Its a bit semantic honestly, the increase was only 74 (1+74 = 75) but it is 75x the improvement. Both are right. It all depends on your perspective and what you think is the appropriate way to portray improvements. Traditionally I have always seen it as (New-Old)/OId, hence I would agree that it is a 7400% performance uplift, although it is 75 times faster.
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I was just trying to make that exact explanation. Two similar in effect perspectives. You gain (meaning additive) a 7400% improvement which is 75 times (multiplicative) improvement from the original.
 
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When I get home this evening, will have to go and check and see if I have gotten an update in Linux for my ARC gpu. As most of you know, we are almost always treated like the red-haired, black-sheep, step childern....lol
 
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