Intel’s software team has delivered another performance-tuned driver update for the Intel Arc GPUs featured on Core Ultra chips, offering a massive boost in performance in several games.
Intel Arc GPUs Receive Game On Driver Support For Last Epoch & Sea of Thieves DX12 Update, Core Ultra’s Integrated GPU Gets Up To A 155% Performance Improvement In Games
Intel has started to deliver some Core Ultra-specific game performance optimizations with its latest GPU driver package. In the previous driver update, we saw a couple of games see a boost in game performance on the Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” platform but with the latest Arc Graphics 5333 WHQL driver package, you are looking at improvements across 16 titles & support for two new games that include Last Epoch & the DX12 update for Sea of Thieves.
Furthermore, multiple titles are seeing big improvements such as +155% in Just Cause 4, 65% in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, 49% in Snowrunner, and 24% in It Takes Two. All of these titles are using the DX11 API so it’s good to see that Intel is taking the time out to optimize games that use older APIs and not just focusing on newer titles.
Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics and Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs for:
Last Epoch
Sea of Thieves DirectX 12 Update
Game performance improvements on Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs versus Intel 31.0.101.5252 software driver for:
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (DX11) Up to 65% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (DX11) Up to 17% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Normal settings
Divinity Original Sin 2 (DX11) Up to 25% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Far Cry 5 (DX11) Up to 8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Normal settings
Halo: The Master Chief Collection (DX11) Up to 19% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Original settings
It Takes Two (DX11) Up to 24% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Just Cause 3 (DX11) Up to 18% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Just Cause 4 (DX11) Up to 155% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Palworld (DX11) Up to 14% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Rise of the Tomb Raider (DX11) Up to 9% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Rust (DX11) Up to 9% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
SCUM (DX11) Up to 6% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (DX11) Up to 27% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Snowrunner (DX11) Up to 49% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Warframe (DX11) Up to 7% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
XCOM 2 (DX11) Up to 8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
OS Reference:
Microsoft Windows 10-64 – October 2022 Update (22H2)
Microsoft Windows 11-64 – October 2021 Update (21H2)
Microsoft Windows 11-64 – September 2022 Update (22H2)
Microsoft Windows 11-64 – October 2023 Update (23H2)
Platform (OS Support)
11th Gen Core processor family (Codename Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake, Tiger Lake-H)
12th Gen Core processor family (Codename Alder Lake-S, Alder Lake-H, Alder Lake-P, Alder Lake-U, Alder Lake-HX, Alder Lake-N)
13th Gen Core processor family (Codename Raptor Lake-S, Raptor Lake-HX, Raptor Lake-H, Raptor Lake-P, Raptor Lake-U)
14th Gen Core processor family (Codename Raptor Lake Refresh)
Core Ultra processor family (Codename Meteor Lake)
Intel Iris Xe Dedicated Graphics family (Codename DG1)
Intel Arc Graphics family (Codename Alchemist)