Price Reduction for the Intel Arc A750 to $229
Starting at just $229, the Intel Arc A750 “Alchemist” graphics card is now 7% cheaper than the MSRP Intel Graphics set for the SKU, with the reference-design A750 fetching a price of $250. The ASRock Arc A750 Challenger, a card with a bespoke design that integrates Intel’s second-fastest GPU with...
Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4148 are released by Intel.
The most recent Arc GPU Graphics Drivers release was made today by Intel Graphics. Sons of The Forest optimization, Game On (day-zero) optimization for Diablo 4 (beta), and Deceive Inc. optimization are all included in version 101.4148 beta. It resolves problems with Resident Evil 4 Remake Chainsaw Demo performing worse...
Intel Releases Video Super Resolution for Chromium Browsers and Supports iGPUs Up to the Eleventh Generation
For Chromium-based web browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, Intel Graphics has added a capability that competes with NVIDIA VSR (virtual super resolution), which improves the quality of streaming video at both native resolution and higher resolutions. This information was found in a Chrome build’s change-log, which mentions the...
Excessive Multi-Monitor Power Usage of Arc GPUs is Fixed Quietly by Intel
Intel Graphics has silently fixed the issue of extremely high power consumption for its Arc A-series GPUs in multi-monitor setups without mentioning it in its driver change-log. The previous 101.4091 drivers typically drew 11 W when idle on a single monitor, but in multi-monitor configurations, this number increased to 40...
Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4091 are released by Intel.
The most recent version of the Arc GPU Graphics Drivers was today released by Intel Graphics. The iGPUs of 13th Gen Core “Raptor Lake-P” mobile CPUs now have support in version 101.4091. A solo desktop mode is now supported by the Intel Arc Control program. A problem that was observed...
Price Drop for the Intel Arc A750—Starting at $250
The base price of Intel’s performance-segment graphics card, the Arc A750, was reduced. The card’s starting price has been reduced from $289 for the first-party reference-design card at launch to USD $249. Acer, Gunnir, and ASRock are a few of the A750’s custom-design board partners. The Intel XeSS performance boost...
Release of Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4090 Beta
The most recent version of Intel Graphics’ Arc GPU Graphics Drivers was released today. For “Forspoken,” version 101.4090 beta includes launch-day optimization. With this update, the company also solved a couple of problems. A Plague Tale: Requiem application freeze problem for Arc “Alchemist” discrete GPUs has been resolved. Additionally, “Need...
Surfaces for Intel Arc A380 MXM Cards Have 50-75 W Power Limits
A desktop Intel Arc “Alchemist” A380 GPU was installed by a Chinese OEM on an MXM board for mobile workstations and notebooks. This is a desktop A380 that has been modified into an MXM 3.1 type-A board that supports PCIe Gen 4 x8 and is not the mobile A380M. Three...
16GB Arc A770 Photon Graphics Card from GUNNIR with Triple Fan Cooler
The Arc A770 Photon graphics card from Chinese Intel Arc board partner GUNNIR has a 16 GB version with specifications that are somewhat similar to those of Intel’s A770 16 GB Limited Edition. Only 8 GB of memory is included in specially made A770s like the ASRock Phantom Gaming model....
As of late, Intel enhanced the performance of the DirectX 9 API for Arc “Alchemist” GPUs across a number of well-known game titles.
The Intel Arc “Alchemist” graphics architecture was initially created as a forward-facing PC GPU architecture with many modern graphics features, including full DirectX 12 Ultimate support. Curiously, the GPU doesn’t have any hardware support for DirectX 9, though. As game console development (the age of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3)...