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Intel Says It's Rolling Out Laptop GPU Drivers With 10% To 25% Better Performance (arstechnica.com) 12

Posted by BeauHD from the new-and-improved dept.
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.

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  • Now show some love to these Battlemaster B580 Drivers please ;-)
  • So I don't think there is a lot of chance we're going to see long-term support for their GPU division unfortunately. It's shortsighted and dumb but because we legalized stock BuyBacks back when Reagan was around it's what the CEOs are always going to do.

    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

    • 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

  • 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...

    • Good news is it exists. It's an AMD part called the Strix Halo.

      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

  • Keep on Intel'ing.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by evanh ( 627108 )

      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.

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