Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4514 Beta Released

[btarunr]

Intel on Wednesday released the latest version of its Arc GPU Graphics Drivers. Version 101.4514 beta includes a handful performance updates. To begin with, it adds optimization for "AEW: Fight Forever," and "Layers of Fear." "Assassin's Creed Unity" is playable, with the drivers providing a 271% performance uplift at 1080p, and 313% uplift at 1440p, as tested using an A770 graphics card. F1 22 sees some performance uplifts: at 1080p with High settings, one can expect up to 36% improvement in frame-rates. At 1440p with High settings, up to 20% uplifts can be had. At 1080p with Ultra High settings and ray tracing enabled, up to 10% uplifts can be had. "Deathloop" is the third game with major performance uplifts—up to 10% at 1080p with Ultra settings; and up to 8% at 1440p with Very High settings.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4514



Game Support

• AEW: Fight Forever
• Layers of Fear

Optimization
Game performance improvements versus Intel 31.0.101.4502 software driver for:

• Assassin's Creed Unity (DX11)
  • Up to 271% uplift at 1080p with Very High settings
  • Up to 313% uplift at 1440p with High settings
• F1 22 (DX12)
  • Up to 36% uplift at 1080p with High settings
  • Up to 20% uplift at 1440p with High settings
  • Up to 10% uplift at 1080p with Ultra High settings and all Ray Tracing settings on
• Deathloop (DX12)
  • Up to 10% uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
  • Up to 8% uplift at 1440p with Very High settings

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[sLowEnd]

How broken was Assassin's Creed Unity on older drivers? lol

 

[lemonadesoda]

What a PITA they didnt release this last week before W1zz did all the benchmarking of the 4060 cards. I would have liked to see these new performance figures in the tables.

 

[InVasMani]

Would be cool to see a A770 SPARKLE TITAN with 32GB VRAM and 8+8PIN. I think if they had something like that for $500 it would be really tempting. Considering how cheap VRAM is right now to source now would be as good a time as any.

 

[lemonadesoda]

Looking at the 4060 reviews, the Arc 770 is doing pretty well at higher resolutions on all benchmarks/$ except the power consumption. Intel really should put out a tick-tock of Arc, small optimisations with 12 or 16GB, and new set of drivers, so a relaunch would show it in much better light than the poor-at-launch but much better now through driver fixes. They are making the curious wait too long for Battlemage or whatever they are calling it. They will lose the (any) momentum/intrigue they have gained.

 

[Zubasa]

How broken was Assassin's Creed Unity on older drivers? lol

Barely doing 1080p 30fps broken.

 

[heart-of-ice]

Still experiencing seemingly random frequent lockups in System Shock Remake. Can only do a hard reset to recover. On both A380 & A750, with previous WHQL & new Beta drivers.

 

[Assimilator]

@btarunr please include "beta" in the thread title when it's a beta driver.

 

[ZoneDymo]

hmm unity, interesting, wonder if they did that in response to the DF video

 

[Dr. Dro]

I'm glad Intel is hard at work polishing their software. It won't be long until they catch up to AMD in driver quality if they keep this up.

 

[Daven]

I'm glad Intel is hard at work polishing their software. It won't be long until they catch up to AMD in driver quality if they keep this up.

That will mean they caught up to Nvidia as well since AMD and Nvidia drivers are at the same level of quality.

 

[W1zzard]

hmm unity, interesting, wonder if they did that in response to the DF video

Probably, at least here Intel's GPU people are very eager to learn about issues I'm encountering and are always willing to listen and happy to fix/improve

What a PITA they didnt release this last week before W1zz did all the benchmarking of the 4060 cards. I would have liked to see these new performance figures in the tables.

These seem game-specific, I only have Deathloop, and it might not affect my test scene

 

[Dr. Dro]

That will mean they caught up to Nvidia as well since AMD and Nvidia drivers are at the same level of quality.

That's the funniest thing I've ever read. Let me know when AMD supports deferred contexts in D3D11, I may consider agreeing (well, not really)

 

[Od1sseas]

That's the funniest thing I've ever read. Let me know when AMD supports deferred contexts in D3D11, I may consider agreeing (well, not really)

What is deferred contexts

 

[Dr. Dro]

What is deferred contexts

I can recommend this article:

Game Development

Access tools, tutorials libraries, and code samples from Intel to optimize your games.

software.intel.com

 

[Daven]

That's the funniest thing I've ever read. Let me know when AMD supports deferred contexts in D3D11, I may consider agreeing (well, not really)

The absence of a feature or a feature that does nor perform as well as the competition does not have anything to do with driver quality.

That’s like saying Intel has a CPU driver quality problem because they don’t have AVX512 in RPL.

The myth of driver quality is still being conflated with business decisions on what features to include in products and how much hardware resources are dedicated to these features. That’s called competitive differentiation and why people choose different company products across all markets.

Again this has nothing to do with quality.

 

[Assimilator]

The absence of a feature or a feature that does nor perform as well as the competition does not have anything to do with driver quality.

It does when that feature is part of the specification.

 

[Daven]

It does when that feature is part of the specification.

Which part of the spec would you be referring? The link provided by Dr. Dro is a tech document from Intel comparing two very old competitor GPUs and stating limited driver support for the feature being studied.

Limited support is also a business decision if you dont think it is an important feature. Driver quality involves crashes, bugs, image corruption, overheating, installation fails, unrecognized hardware, etc. Basically problems not intended by the manufacturer but happen anyway due to poor oversight and programming skills. AMD and Nvidia solved GPU driver quality years and years ago. They now fight over features and halo performance.

When TPU reviews a GPU they run dozens and dozens of benchmarking runs. They overclock, run at maximum, disassemble/reassemble and otherwise run a GPU through tortuous tests that would make us faint. They do this for dozens of reviews annually. In not a single review, is there a widespread or even a hint of driver quality problems for any GPU except the early versions of Intel GPU drivers.This youtube video is the best and most recent example of bad quality drivers. Full disclosure, Intel has fixed most of these problems since the video.