The latest drivers released by Intel provide a performance boost in some games. This, on the other hand, shows how AMD and NVIDIA have “abandoned” their drivers. Although both continue to release drivers, it is increasingly rare to see in the list of “improvements” that have been optimized performance games, as he did Intel.
But beware, because Intel’s data in terms of performance improvement has its crumb. Intel Arc graphics cards are for DirectX 12 games, they do not support DX 11 and DX 9 based games. Although games can be run, it is a translation of instructions, which results in loss of performance.
Intel takes the colors of the main graphics card manufacturers
Recently, Intel launched the Arc drivers 31.0.101.3959 which focuses on the Games situated at DX11 and DX9. It may seem silly to optimize games with these types of APIs, but in reality the most played games use this type of instructions. To give us an idea, we’re talking about games like CS:GO, Dota 2, LoL or StarCraft 2.
These new controllers optimize performance for three DX 11 games and eight DX 9 games. Specifically, you get a improvement up to 80% in these games and up to 130% in the 99th percentile. Come on, we get a lot more performance with this process.
Here the round is that, as we said, the Intel Arc does not support DX 9 and DX 11, they only support DX 12. Games with unsupported APIs are run through a conversion layer. Although it is not specified how this is done, they would be using DXVK technology
Making DXVK is to create a layer of conversion for DirectX 9/10/11 based on Vulkan. Basically it’s the same trick Wine uses, the system that allows run games Windows at all Linux distribution.
What Intel would have done is use this tool on Windows and have optimized it. Precisely, there is the trick of improving performance, since would have improved the “translation” process. Something that, for practical purposes, has allowed a significant improvement in performance in games.
How much damage did resizing do?
Although the performance improvement hides a trick, the truth is that it is something increasingly rare. When AMD and NVIDIA release drivers, they add a list of what they include. Normal support for new games and a list of bug fixes and known unfixed bugs.
It’s starting to be quite rare to find information about optimizations to improve performance in existing or similar games. The disappearance of driver optimizations would be linked to the arrival of NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR. These two technologies make it possible to obtain more FPS in games, thanks to rescaling.
But the problem is deeper, as games are rarely optimized and are released with huge amounts of bugs. Cyberpunk 2077 was launched as a real sloppy and something similar is happening with Warzone 2. In the end, the lack of game optimization means AMD and NVIDIA aren’t focusing on improving performance, because that requires a lot of time and resources.
Come on, in the end it’s a chain of lack of interest from all parties that clearly focuses on buying new graphics cards at exorbitant prices.
