Intel Says It's Rolling Out Laptop GPU Drivers With 10% To 25% Better Performance (arstechnica.com) 23
Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham reports: Intel's oddball Core Ultra 200V laptop chips -- codenamed Lunar Lake -- will apparently be a one-off experiment, not to be replicated in future Intel laptop chips. They're Intel's only processors with memory integrated onto the CPU package; the only ones with a neural processing unit that meets Microsoft's Copilot+ performance requirements; and the only ones with Intel's best-performing integrated GPUs, the Intel Arc 130V and 140V.
Today, Intel announced some updates to its graphics driver that specifically benefit those integrated GPUs, welcome news for anyone who bought one and is trying to get by with it as an entry-level gaming system. Intel says that version 32.0.101.6734 of its graphics driver can speed up average frame rates in some games by around 10 percent, and can speed up "1 percent low FPS" (that is, for any given frames per second measurement, whatever your frame rate is the slowest 1 percent of the time) by as much as 25 percent. This should, in theory, make games run better in general and ease some of the stuttering you notice when your game's performance dips down to that 1 percent level.
Today, Intel announced some updates to its graphics driver that specifically benefit those integrated GPUs, welcome news for anyone who bought one and is trying to get by with it as an entry-level gaming system. Intel says that version 32.0.101.6734 of its graphics driver can speed up average frame rates in some games by around 10 percent, and can speed up "1 percent low FPS" (that is, for any given frames per second measurement, whatever your frame rate is the slowest 1 percent of the time) by as much as 25 percent. This should, in theory, make games run better in general and ease some of the stuttering you notice when your game's performance dips down to that 1 percent level.
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Intel's planning to lay off 30% of their staff (Score:1)
It's amazing how much better everyone's lives would be if we would just make stock BuyBacks illegal again. Companies wouldn't have the same incentives to do the constant Mass layoffs. They wouldn't be scraping up every penny they could get to prop up the
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What's wrong with a less coercive approach that doesn't rely on state violence, i.e. encourage financial decoupling from the real economy, so companies all become financial firms and things like chips are made by hobbyists on a basic income who focus on the actual engineering and have 3D printers and share designs openly like the old Homebrew Computing Club because they get enough of a strong, inflation-protected basic income that they can pursue their idealistic dreams of "to each according to his need, fr
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Doesn't even Elon Musk support a basic income?
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news... [yahoo.com]
Seems a tad optimistic but yeah apparently he does.
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I saw this coming years ago, but unfortunately, I also saw a slave labor market for menial tasks to support the AI juggernaut that can't do them.
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add that to a list of (Bull) Shit Elon Says.
the same guy who says you can't change the world on 40 hrs per week, railed against WFH and says his DOGE team is working 120 hrs per week will NEVER support handouts to non-workers unless & until the great unwashed are about to decide who gets 1st crack at BBQing his fatty carcass
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There are also stealth layoffs. They target employees they know need to work from home.
Imagine how disappointed our forefathers would be at what a soft, entitled society we've become. No wonder few start businesses these days. They must be turned off by the prospect of hiring spoiled princesses like yourself that think the universe revolves around them.
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture,
in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
John Adams letter to Abigail Adams May 12, 1780
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I'd like a CPU with integrated GPU and VRAM (Score:2)
Cooling the whole thing is an obvious problem, but manufacturers have been threatening to deliver us liquid-cooled dies. There's no reason they couldn't also do package integration. I would like a smaller system and I only need midrange graphics performance (I use a 4060 Ti 16GB now and it's almost enough to run everything I care about maxed out, until I get to Satisfactory... ugh) and I have recently embraced liquid cooling as it's gotten cheaper. Or at least, it had...
I've got good news and bad news (Score:3)
Bad news is they are marketing it to AI programmer Bros so the cheapest laptop you'll find it in is $2,000. Basically the design lets you use hardwired main system ram as if it's GPU ram so you can load large AI llm models entirely into RAM. The raw performance is pretty weak all things considered, roughly equivalent to a 4060, but because you can access so much RAM so quickly it's well suited for programming llms on a workstation.
so if
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There are going to be cheaper sff pcs based on Strix Halo.
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if you want to step up to the 15 to 1600 dollar range
hahahaha no, I sure don't. My whole system might have cost that including tax. It's the most I've spent on one machine since my Sun 4/260.
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Good news is it exists. It's an AMD part called the Strix Halo.
I don't see any VRAM on those [wikipedia.org].
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So From 4 FPS to 5 FPS (Score:1)
Keep on Intel'ing.
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If their CPU boosting updates are anything to go by, then it'll really be 4 FPS to 4 FPS ... and the same again in a month's time.
better than Apple silicon (Score:1)