Intel is back again with another massive performance-improving driver update for itsArc A-series graphics cardsandIris XeiGPUs. Driver31.0.101.5379adds game support forHorizon Forbidden West, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Diablo IV’snew ray tracing update, and driver optimizations for 16 titles in total.
The majority of game optimizations apply to Arc A-series discrete graphics cards. However several games have also seen performance improvements with Arc integrated graphics currently found in Intel’sCore Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs.
Games that have improved on Arc A-series graphics cards with this latest driver update areAssassin’s Creed Origins(DX11),Conqueror’s Blade(DX11),Detroit: Become Human(Vulkan),Dragon’s Dogma 2(DX12),Fortnite(DX12),God of War(DX11),Granblue Fantasy: Relink(DX11),Horizon Forbidden West(DX12), andSons of the Forest(DX11).
The highest-performing games includeDetroit: Become Human,Granblue Fantasy: Relink, andConqueror’s Blade. InDetroit: Become Human, performance has improved by 137% at 1080p Ultra settings and 172% at 1440p Ultra settings. InGrandblue Fantasyperformance has improved by 174% at 1080p Ultra settings. Performance has improved by up to 54% at 1080p on the highest settings inConqueror’s Blade.
Games that have improved on Arc integrated graphics areAssassin’s Creed Origins(DX11),Conqueror’s Blade(DX11),Dragon’s Dogma 2 (DX12),Fortnite(DX12),God of War(DX11),Granblue Fantasy: Relink(DX11),andSons of the Forest(DX11).
The performance improvements on Arc iGPUs aren’t as high as on their discrete graphics card counterparts, but performance improvements are still quite good. For instance, inAssassin’s Creed Originsperformance has improved by 117% at 1080P medium settings. InGranblue Fantasy: Relink, performance has improved by 29% at 1080P standard settings. In Conqueror’s Blade performance has improved by 27% at 1080P medium settings.
Here’s how Intel lists the performance improvements on Arc A-Series graphics:
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And here are improvements on Arc graphics on Intel Core Ultra mobile processors:
Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.
