INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
They're Intel's only processors with memory integrated onto the CPU package; the only ones with a neural processing unit that meets
Microsoft's Copilot+ performance requirements; and the only ones with Intel's best-performing integrated GPUs, the Intel Arc 130V and
140V.Today, Intel announced some updates to its graphics driver that specifically benefit those integrated GPUs, welcome news for anyone who
bought one and is trying to get by with it as an entry-level gaming system
Intel says that version 32.0.101.6734 of its graphics driver can speed up average frame rates in some games by around 10 percent and can
speed up "1 percent low FPS" (that is, for any given frames-per-second measurement, whatever your frame rate is the slowest 1 percent of the
time) by as much as 25 percent
This should, in theory, make games run better in general and ease some of the stuttering you notice when your game's performance dips down
to that 1 percent level.
Intel's performance numbers for its new GPU drivers on a laptop running at the "common default power level"
of 17 W.
Credit:
Intel
Intel's performance comparisons were made using an
MSI Claw 7 AI+ using an Arc 140V GPU, and they compare the performance of driver version 32.0.101.6732 (released April 2) to version
32.0.101.6734 (released April 8)
The two additional driver packages Intel has released since then will contain the improvements, too.18604fa73c4d985952113c740295e599
