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Intel Arc GPUs Get Another Major Performance-Boosting Driver, Up To 63% Improvement Across Latest AAA Games

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Intel Arc GPUs Get Another Major Performance-Boosting Driver, Up To 63% Improvement Across Latest AAA Games 1

Intel has released its latest performance-boosting driver for Arc graphics which delivers one hell of an improvement across various AAA games.

Intel Arc and Iris Graphics 31.0.101.4311 driver makes its way online with support for several games and performance upgrades with DirectX 12

The latest Game On Driver version 31.0.101.4311, which is still in beta, matches the releases of Dead Island 2, Minecraft Legends, and Boundary to offer day-one support. Additionally, the blue team prepared the driver for Total War: Warhammer III's newest downloadable content, Mirror of Madness. You can find the latest drivers here for download.

As per recent Game On Drivers from Intel, the company wants to ensure gamers that the performance of its graphics cards, ray tracing capabilities, and PPD, or Performance Per Dollar, is superior to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GPU. But why is Intel pushing Total War: Warhammer III's DLC today? It turns out that Mirror of Madness was co-developed by the company.

Let's look at the numbers to see the performance gains by going with Intel instead of NVIDIA.

Intel Arc GPUs Get Another Major Performance-Boosting Driver, Up To 63% Improvement Across Latest AAA Games 2

Looking at the Intel Arc A750's performance against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB resource model in the previous driver and the current driver, Intel increased the average frames per second in the newly updated Dead Space game, jumping up an additional 30 fps in 1080p Ultra modes and 20 fps in 1440p High modes. NVIDIA's performance outshined the previous driver, version 4257, but is almost even with the newest update, if not losing by a skinny margin of two to five frames.

Image source: Intel
Image source: Intel
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Performance per USD shows that in the Intel-optimized Total War: Warhammer III DLC, Mirror of Madness, the company increases 62 to 72 percent compared to NVIDIA's GPU. Remember that the Intel Arc A750 GPU is currently $249, and NVIDIA's RTX 3060 12 GB is averaging $388. The same cards are compared to new releases Boundary, Dead Island 2, and Minecraft Legends, showing as low as 37% performance gains per dollar to up to 63% improvement per dollar.Image source: Intel

Ray tracing is no different from Intel's slides. Older games like DIRT 5, Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition, F1 22, and Deathloop show minor increases from Intel in their previous Game On driver to the recent driver from today. And, looking at the two system configurations, Intel did not fluff any drivers or extra components needed, allowing users full transparency to the two test systems.

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Below is the new changelog for Intel Game On Driver version 31.0.101.4311, which can be downloaded here:

Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics for: 

  • Boundary
  • Minecraft Legends
  • Total War: Warhammer III – Mirror of Madness
  • Dead Island 2

Game performance improvements versus Intel® 31.0.101.4257 software driver for:

  • Dead Space Remake (DX12)
    • Up to 55% uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings on Arc A750
    • Up to 63% uplift at 1440p with High settings on Arc A750
  • F1 22 (DX12)
    • Up to 6% uplift at 1440p with High settings on Arc A770
    • Up to 7% uplift at 1440p with High settings on Arc A750
    • Up to 17% uplift at 1080p with Ultra High Ray Tracing settings on Arc A750
  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human (DX12)
    • Up to 6% uplift at 1080p with High Ray Tracing settings preset on Arc A770
    • Up to 7% uplift at 1440p with High Ray Tracing settings preset on Arc A770
  • Dirt 5 (DX12)
    • Up to 8% uplift at 1080p with Ultra High Ray Tracing settings on Arc A750
    • Up to 4% uplift at 1440p with Ultra High Ray Tracing settings on Arc A750
  • Deathloop (DX12)
    • Up to 4% uplift at 1080p with Very High and Ray Tracing Performance settings on Arc A750
    • Up to 6% uplift at 1440p with Very High and Ray Tracing Performance settings on Arc A750

DEVELOPER HIGHLIGHTS: 

  • Support for Agility SDK 1.710.0-preview developer features
    • GPU Upload Heaps and Non-Normalized Sampling

Platform (OS Support)

  • 11th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake, Tiger Lake-H)
  • 12th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Alder Lake-S, Alder Lake-H, Alder Lake-P, Alder Lake-U, Alder Lake-HX, Alder Lake-N)
  • 13th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Raptor Lake-S, Raptor Lake-HX, Raptor Lake-H, Raptor Lake-P, Raptor Lake-U)
  • Intel Iris Xe Dedicated Graphics family (Codename DG1)
  • Intel Arc™ Graphics family (Codename Alchemist)

  • Fixed Issues

    • Intel Arc Graphics Products:
      • Microsoft Flight Simulator (DX11) may experience application crashes during gameplay.
      • Sea of Thieves (DX11) may exhibit color corruption on water edges.
      • Bright Memory Infinite Ray Tracing Benchmark (DX12) may experience lower-than-expected performance.
      • Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve may exhibit color corruption with Optical Flow.

  • Known Issues

    • Intel Arc Graphics Products:
      • The system may hang while waking up from sleep. You may need to power cycle the system for recovery.
      • GPU hardware acceleration may not be available for media playback and encoding with some versions of Adobe Premiere Pro.
      • Topaz Video AI may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement.
    • Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics Products:
      • Driver installation may not complete successfully on specific notebook systems with both Intel Iris Xe + Iris Xe MAX devices. A system reboot and re-installation of the graphics driver may be required for a successful installation.
    • Intel Core Processor Products:
      • Total War: Warhammer III (DX11) may experience an application crash when loading battle scenarios.
      • Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 (DX12) may exhibit corruption on specific light sources such as fire.
      • Conqueror's Blade (DX12) may experience an application crash during the game launch.
      • A Plague Tale: Requiem (DX12) may experience application instability during gameplay.
      • Battlefield: 2042(DX12) may exhibit color corruption in the game menu.
      • Crime boss (DX12) may experience texture flickering when XESS is enabled.
      • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may experience color corruption in QuickPlay Lobby

  • Intel ARC Control Known Issues:

      • Windows UAC Admin is required to install and launch Arc Control.
      • The Live Performance Monitoring page may not apply the desired removal of some performance metric tiles.
      • The Resizable Bar status may show an incorrect value on systems with multiple Intel Graphics Adapters.
      • Arc Control Studio capture with certain games may incorrectly generate multiple video files.
      • With Intel Arc Control installed, systems may experience slightly higher than expected power consumption during system sleep or hibernation.
      • Intel Arc Control Performance Tuning (BETA):
      • Intel Arc Control Performance Tuning is currently in beta. As such, performance and features may behave unexpectedly. Intel will continue to refine the Performance Tuning software in future releases.

  • Notes:

    • Take your system lighting to the next level with Intel Arc RGB Controller. Intel Arc RGB Controller was custom designed to allow users to harness 90 individually addressable LEDs on Intel Arc A770 Graphics Limited Edition cards. Intel Arc RGB Controller is available for download here.
    • Supported on Intel Arc A770 Graphics Limited Edition on Windows 10 and 11.
    • Intel and Cooler Master collaborated on the creation of this software.
Written by Jason R. Wilson

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