Items tagged with intel arc
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 17, 2025
Remember when reports surfaced that Intel had allegedly scrapped plans to launch a so-called 'Big Battlemage' GPU to compete with more performant options from AMD and NVIDIA? That was in late March. It didn't take long to cast doubt on the...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jun 10, 2025
If you read that headline and thought "Who, now?" then you're probably not a PC enthusiast or under the age of 30. If you instead thought "That's a name I haven't heard," then you clearly don't work in the medical imaging or digital...
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Zak Killian - Mon, May 05, 2025
Sparkle is a company that has been around since 1982, yet the vendor has only recently started selling products for the consumer PC market. Its most visible offerings are graphics cards, which it bases exclusively on Intel's Arc GPUs...
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Zak Killian - Fri, May 02, 2025
Rumors of a bigger Battlemage GPU's demise may have been greatly exaggerated. Tech sleuth Haze spotted something interesting in the public shipping database over at NBD DATA: multiple entries for things like "SOCKET STIFFENER (STF)...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Apr 18, 2025
If you haven't heard, Intel's graphics cards are actually good. However, the veracity of that reality strongly depends on your system's CPU. If you're rocking an older-gen chip, chances are you might be significantly less impressed with a...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jul 04, 2024
Most enthusiasts seem to treat currently-available Intel Arc graphics parts as viable, budget-friendly options. This isn't entirely fair, but we get it—a less-than-perfect launch and positioning in the lower echelons of the market left...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 17, 2024
It's been nearly two decades since Crysis came out and brought modern gaming PCs (for the time period) to their knees (and four years since Crysis Remastered), prompting the popular meme, 'Yeah, but can it run Crysis?', which was the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 12, 2024
It's only taken Biostar a little over two years to launch an Intel Arc A750 graphics card, though depending on your perspective, it's a fashionably late entry into A750 territory—at this point in the game, Arc is far more mature than at...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 10, 2024
Intel's next generation Arc Battlemage GPU architecture remains on the roadmap and may even show up in just a handful of months—in time for this year's holiday shopping season, if murmurs coming out of the Embedded World 2024 conference...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 05, 2024
Who doesn't like a free performance uplift? That's one of the ideas behind upscaling technologies, which render games at a lower, less demanding resolution and then upscales them. Intel's Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) is one such solution, and...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 21, 2024
Intel's GPU driver team has made a habit out of delivering massive performance increases on a surprisingly frequent basis. The latest round comes by way of the latest Intel Arc beta driver, version 31.0.101.5379, which brings big gains of...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 27, 2024
It's barely been four weeks since we wrote about a WHQL-certified Intel Arc graphics driver purporting to deliver massive performance gains by triple-digit percentages in some titles. Our coverage led to Intel creating a cool graphic (see...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Feb 24, 2024
A lot of people will tell you that PyTorch is for NVIDIA GPUs, but that's not actually true. PyTorch is platform-agnostic; it's just that many packages built on PyTorch make heavy use of NVIDIA's CUDA API. You can run PyTorch on just about...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 25, 2024
Somewhere out there is an Intel Arc software engineer who's chugging a Red Bull while furiously hammering out driver code and wearing a t-shirt that reads, 'Big performance gains or bust'. Or maybe not. Either way, the continued...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 08, 2023
Intel deserves some kudos for maintaining a regular driver update schedule for its Arc GPU family. Even more impressive, though, is the effort its driver team has put into delivering chunky performance gains, with the biggest to date being...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Nov 21, 2023
Meteor Lake, the first-generation "Core Ultra" processors, will be Intel's first "disaggregated" or chiplet-based CPUs. The launch of these important chips is less than a month away, and Intel is continuing to drip-feed details to the...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 24, 2023
Horror fans will get to see if Alan Wake II lives up to the hype when the game releases later this week. In the meantime, gamers who own an Intel Arc graphics card can download the latest Arc driver, version 31.0.101.4900, for a...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 12, 2023
Hot on the heels of releasing the Arc A580 for gamers on a budget, Intel has released a new WHQL-certified Arc GPU driver (version 31.0.101.4887) that's tuned for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III beta, as well as Total War: PHARAOH and...
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Thiago Trevisan - Wed, Oct 11, 2023
The budget gaming GPU space has been the last to add some interesting options this generation, with emphasis going towards the pricey high-end from manufacturers. Things are changing for the better, though, with the $179 MSRP Intel Arc...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 05, 2023
If you own an Intel Arc graphics card, congratulations, you're about to receive a huge performance boost in a whole bunch of games. All you have to do is apply the latest Arc GPU driver, version 31.0.101.4885. According to the release...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Sep 08, 2023
Intel continues to make headway on improving performance and fixing various bugs in Starfield for players who are running the game on an Arc graphics card. The latest salve comes in the form of an eyebrow-raising Arc GPU driver release. We...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 04, 2023
Okay, maybe "need" in our headline is a bit extreme. Don't try telling that to folks who are having a bear of a time getting up and running smoothly in Starfield on their Arc A770 or other Alchemist-based graphics card, though. In a...
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