Intel Releases Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4669 Beta with Armored Core VI Optimization

[btarunr]

Intel Graphics today released the latest version of Arc GPU Graphics Drivers. Version 101.4669 beta comes with Game On (day zero) optimization for "Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon." With the new drivers in place, the Arc A750 can provide average frame-rates of up to 92 FPS at 1080p with Ultra settings; and up to 82 FPS at 1440p with High settings. Among the issues fixed with this release include an application crash for "Shadow of the Tomb Raider" in DirectX 11 mode, in the game menu. Also, it turns out that Arc A380 reporting a base frequency of 2150 MHz compared to 2000 MHz reference with the previous 101.4644 drivers, was a bug. Intel fixed it with this release.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4669 Beta



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

• Armored Core 6

Fixed Issues
Intel Arc Graphics Products:

• Shadow of The Tomb Raider (DX11) may experience an application crash after loading to game menu.
• Some Intel Arc A380 products may incorrectly report a higher value than expected for default clock frequency value.

Known Issues
Intel Arc Graphics Products:

• UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption on characters.
• Halo Infinite (DX12) campaign may experience an application crash on some system configurations.
• Dead by Daylight (DX11) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
• Topaz Video AI may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement.
• Adobe After Effects may experience an application crash during render operations.

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics Products:

• Driver installation may not complete successfully on certain 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 successful installation.

Intel Arc Control Known Issues

• Using Arc Control Studio capture with certain games may incorrectly generate multiple video files.
• The "Connector" type in the Display page may incorrectly show DP when using an HDMI display connection.
• May observe "stream has already ended" pop-up after the power events with Capture/Highlights/Broadcast toggle on.
• Performance Graphs may scale incorrectly after waking up from sleep

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.

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[Space Lynx]

I really hope the rumors are true of the next flagship Arc coming in a year or two can compete with RTX 4080. We really need another player in the game to keep everyone honest.

 

[evernessince]

I really hope the rumors are true of the next flagship Arc coming in a year or two can compete with RTX 4080. We really need another player in the game to keep everyone honest.

One can hope. AMD and Nvidia have left the door wide open pricing wise.

 

[AnotherReader]

I really hope the rumors are true of the next flagship Arc coming in a year or two can compete with RTX 4080. We really need another player in the game to keep everyone honest.

Let's be realistic. Even a 4070 competitor would be an improvement over the first generation of Arc, and N6 to N5 isn't that big a node jump so getting to 4080 from sub 4060 performance levels seems rather unlikely.

 

[catulitechup]

Actually arc a380 have a very good price now on microcenter and newegg (when launched appear at 139us after 119us) and now:

99us on newegg

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99us on microcenter

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99us for 6gb of vram card with performance around gtx 1650 is very interesting and have av1 hardware encode and decode

 

[Assimilator]

PUT.
BETA.
IN.
THE.
TITLE.
WHEN.
IT'S.
A.
BETA.
DRIVER.
FFS.

How many times do I have to ask for this simple courtesy?

 

[Aretak]

I really hope the rumors are true of the next flagship Arc coming in a year or two can compete with RTX 4080. We really need another player in the game to keep everyone honest.

Competing with the 4080 isn't going to happen. We already know that the flagship SKU is going to be 225W or less again from Intel's own roadmap, which makes 4080-level performance an unrealistic target. At best it's going to be a 4070 Ti competitor, and I imagine it'll fall well short of that in many scenarios unless Intel perform a miracle with their drivers in the next 12 months.

 

[AnotherReader]

Competing with the 4080 isn't going to happen. We already know that the flagship SKU is going to be 225W or less again from Intel's own roadmap, which makes 4080-level performance an unrealistic target. At best it's going to be a 4070 Ti competitor, and I imagine it'll fall well short of that in many scenarios unless Intel perform a miracle with their drivers in the next 12 months.

Its not just drivers; Arc has trouble in low occupancy workloads. In other words, it performs worse at lower resolutions which is unfortunate for a card that is targeting the value segment. Notice how the A770 needs 512 threads per workgroup to approach the performance of the Radeon VII at 256 threads per workgroup. This is another reason why I'm skeptical of Battlemage beating even the 4070.

 

[Cheeseball]

AC6 was already running a stable (no crashes) & steady 109-120 FPS at 1080p with Maximum settings (RT off) on the previous WHQL driver yesterday (on a 5800X3D CO -30, with 32GB of DDR4-3200 RAM). Not sure if this will provide better 1% lows or such but its good to have an official driver for the game.

Runs at a stable 120 FPS at 4K on my 7900 XTX at -10% power limit. Drops to around 80 FPS with RT on max.

 

[Space Lynx]

AC6 was already running a stable (no crashes) & steady 109-120 FPS at 1080p with Maximum settings (RT off) on the previous WHQL driver yesterday (on a 5800X3D CO -30, with 32GB of DDR4-3200 RAM). Not sure if this will provide better 1% lows or such but its good to have an official driver for the game.

Runs at a stable 120 FPS at 4K on my 7900 XTX at -10% power limit. Drops to around 80 FPS with RT on max.

very nice...at 1440p i should be able to max it out it with my current specs then. excellent news

 

[trsttte]

We already know that the flagship SKU is going to be 225W

And that's a great thing! Someone has to step up and say it, 400W+ cards are dumb!

 

[Scrizz]

Its not just drivers; Arc has trouble in low occupancy workloads. In other words, it performs worse at lower resolutions which is unfortunate for a card that is targeting the value segment. Notice how the A770 needs 512 threads per workgroup to approach the performance of the Radeon VII at 256 threads per workgroup. This is another reason why I'm skeptical of Battlemage beating even the 4070.

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I'd like to see data on recent drivers not year old drivers.

 

[AnotherReader]

I'd like to see data on recent drivers not year old drivers.

The test was with low level code in Vulkan so it's rather unlikely that newer drivers will do any better.

 

[Scrizz]

The test was with low level code in Vulkan so it's rather unlikely that newer drivers will do any better.

A graphics API sits higher on the stack than drivers. Drivers play an immense role any hardware's performance.
The drivers are what allow the graphics API to interface with the hardware.

 

[AnotherReader]

A graphics API sits higher on the stack than drivers. Drivers play an immense role any hardware's performance.
The drivers are what allow the graphics API to interface with the hardware.

Of course, but these are low level tests that translate directly to one or two different types of instructions.