Intel’s new driver update for Arc Alchemist is keeping its GPU dreams alive

Intel's new driver update for Arc Alchemist is keeping its GPU dreams alive

Intel has led a bumpy road with its Arc Alchemist graphics cards, but an upcoming driver update could provide big enough gains to keep the company’s hopes of penetrating the discrete graphics market a little longer.

Since the launch of the first Intel Arc A380 discrete GPU, midway to 2022, Intel’s GPU series has been plagued by a number of incompatibilities and driver issues, especially with older games running on DirectX 9.

According to a new report from the German media outlet for PC gaming (via VideoCardz), Intel has tracked down the source of the performance bottleneck and fixed the issue. A major driver update in the near future aims to propagate these changes to the broader Arc ecosystem.

This will be a huge boon for Team Blue because the reported issues, including incompatibility and visual corruption, will be a huge turn off for gamers. This is the only audience these cards need to appease if Intel hopes to get better graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia.

To that end, PCGH has tested 66 games over the years, and way back like Unreal Tournament 2004 GOTY Edition (a DirectX 8 title), only Halo Infinite had serious problems. Most of the games in the beta ran perfectly — and that was before an upcoming driver update, which is said to fix major performance issues Intel’s Arc cards had.

It’s not too late for Intel Arc, but time may be running out

With Intel Arc seemingly on the ropes for months (if not years), there’s definitely reason to be cautious about how much of a difference this driver update will make.

Intel’s latest earnings call didn’t inspire confidence in the market, and Intel will be under tremendous pressure to increase earnings next year. Intel’s discrete graphics unit has already been in the crossfire because the company’s major investment hasn’t resulted in the release of a major graphics card that could compete with the likes of AMD and Nvidia.

However, as threatened as Intel’s Arc cards may be, it’s not closed yet, and the company says it’s still committed to seeing off its separate graphics project.

With so much of the card’s release delay related to issues with software drivers rather than the hardware itself, there’s reason to hope that Intel’s new cards will prove to be a major competitor to the best graphics cards available.

This is much needed, as both AMD and Nvidia continue to release unacceptably expensive graphics cards that the majority of gamers can’t hope to afford.

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