If we rely on the statistics, it must be said that few users have decided to buy one Intel dedicated graphics card for his PC gaming, since its market share is tiny compared to AMD and NVIDIA. However, if you are one of those who have a chart Arc Intel on the PC, you will be very interested in installing the new driver that they just launched because improves gaming performance up to 268%.
This driver applies to all Intel Arc A-Series graphics cards in any of its three ranges (Arc 3, Arc 5 and Arc 7), but does not apply to graphics integrated into Intel processors, it is i.e. if for example If you are using a laptop with integrated graphics card then this driver is not for you unless you have one of the newer ones Intel Core Ultrain which case this applies.
What does the new Intel graphics driver bring?
Intel’s graphics software team continues to impress with the huge improvements it is making to its Arc graphics drivers, which are now receiving a new driver package that results in a substantial performance improvement in DirectX 11 and DirectX 12.
For starters, this new driver adds support for Intel Game On on dedicated Intel Arc graphics in the following games:
- Envelope
- Suicide Squad: kill the Justice League
- Like a dragon: infinite wealth
- Tekken
- World Pal
For Intel Core Ultra processors with integrated Intel Arc graphics, Game On support includes the following titles:
- Like a dragon: infinite wealth
- Tekken 8
- World Pal
Intel has been optimizing the drivers of its graphics cards for some time to improve their gaming performance, and it must be recognized that although they arrive a little late compared to NVIDIA and AMD, they are making considerable progress. The company has committed to users working on and optimizing their GPUs and this is evident in the huge improvements they are making with the latest versions of their graphics drivers; Concretely, in this new version, performance is improved by up to 268%, although this is an extreme case and, for example, in The Last of Us Part 1 the improvement is 8%.
Here you have the performance improvement data that Intel has published (according to its internal tests) in different games, always in comparison with the performance obtained with the previous version of its driver (we can tell you that the average improvement is 37.4%it’s incredible) :
- Albion Online (DX11): Up to 11% improvement.
- Anno 1800 (DX11): +33% average performance.
- Apex Legends (DX11): +26% improvement on average.
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (DX11): Up to +13% improvement on average.
- Black Desert Online (DX11): 18% improvement.
- Elder Scrolls Online (DX11): Up to 10% improvement.
- Elex II (DX11): the improvement goes up to 101% average FPS.
- Humanity (DX11): 11% improvement.
- Hunt: Showdown (DX11): 27% improvement on average.
- Just Cause 3 (DX11): Up to 160% improvement.
- Just Cause 4 (DX11): up to +268% on average.
- New World (DX11): +13% performance.
- Returnal (DX12): Up to 8% improvement.
- Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Gathering Storm (DX11): best rating of 32%.
- Son of the Forest (DX11): 15% better.
- Space Engineers (DX11): up to 69% more FPS.
- Star Citizen (DX11): 9% improvement on average.
- Star Wars Squadrons (DX11): best 6% discount.
- Stellaris (DX11): up to 5% higher FPS on average.
- Tekken 8 (DX12): The improvement is 15% in 4K on Ultra.
- The Last of Us Part 1 (DX12): 8% better.
- Warframe (DX11): up to 20% more FPS.
- Watch Dogs: Legion (DX11): You can expect 16% higher FPS on average.
- XCOM 2 (DX11): the improvement is 4%.
The above concerns dedicated Intel Arc graphics, but regarding graphics integrated into Intel Core Ultra processors we find the following:
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (DX12): Up to 25% higher FPS on average.
- Return* (DX12): 6% improvement.
- The Last of Us Part 1 (DX12): 6% more FPS on average.
To access this new Intel driver, download it from its official website.
