Fast technology April 17 news, in the past on the graphics card market, the protagonists are AMD and NVIDIA, the biggest change in 2022 is that Intel joined the game graphics card market, launched the Intel Corp Ruixuan (Intel Arc) brand, the graphics card market has become a three-country struggle for hegemony, gamers have one more choice.

Intel first pushed the mobile version of Arc graphics card, the desktop version of Arc graphics card into the market is actually only half a year, how has the performance in the past few months?

There are also players on the reddit forum who have been recording Intel's performance. In the latest update of "Cyberpunk 2077" version 1.62, the game also includes Intel's XeSS technical support, and the game has become one of the benchmark for supporting AMD FSR, NVIDIA DLSS and Intel XeSS technologies at the same time.

How does XeSS perform in this game? The following are the measured results of netizens:

Netizens mainly compared the performance and power consumption of FSR 2.1and XeSS under different settings.To sum up, XeSS technology has lower power consumption and higher performance.Although the gap between the two sides is not very big, it is necessary to consider that XeSS is a new technology that has been on the market for only a few months, while competitors' FSR and DLSS technologies have accumulated for several years.

XeSS is a new generation of super-resolution scaling technology, based on time domain magnification algorithm, the target is DLSS, FSR and other technologies, and it is very open, not only Arc graphics cards can run, competitors' graphics cards can also be used, without limiting the hardware, so it has also been supported by many game manufacturers in a short period of time. Many new games released now support XeSS, and UE4 and UE5 game engines have been included in the support. There will be more games supporting this technology in the future.

Compete with competitors for speed: Intel updates version 4 drivers in 1 month and supports new games immediately.

From the performance of XeSS, Intel's Arc graphics card architecture and technology are very advanced, the hardware level is very strong, to say that there are few deficiencies at the beginning of the release is driver optimization. Gamers all know the important impact of drivers on playing games, but this problem is not achieved overnight, because Intel belongs to the latecomers of game cards, and the previous support and optimization of game manufacturers are aimed at AMD and NVIDIA, which is disadvantageous to latecomers.

This lesson can only be made up by Intel itself. Academician Tom Petersen of Intel Corp, who is in charge of graphics cards, promised to continue to optimize it. The good news is that Intel has really beaten chicken blood in recent months.Especially since February 2023, the driver is the same as playing, there are important games will be the first time to follow up on the optimized driver.

According to incomplete statistics, Intel has released at least the following drivers since February:

1. Driver version 4123 BETA: added support for the new game "Heritage of Hogwarts".

2. Driver version 4125 BETA: added to "Hero Company 3" and "Rulong Restoration!" Support for the new games of Ji, the Story of Workers: emerging Alliance, Heart of the Atom and Heart of the Wild.

3. Driver version 4146 WHQL: added support for new games "Wolong: the fall of Heaven" and "Destiny 2: autumn of Light".

4. Driver version 4148 BETA: added support for "Diablo IV" and "deceiving the company" new games.

5. Driver version 4255 WHQL: added support for the new game "biochemical Evil 4 remake".

6. Driver version 4257 BETA: added support for the game "Great Hero out of Law: rolling Stone City"

Four versions of the driver have been released in the past March, which is updated faster than the two competitors, and the new game support is quite in place.

I card beat chicken blood crazily: the performance of Arc driver greatly increases the number of game frames and easily doubles

The Arc driver is not only up-to-date and diligent, with support for games in place, but also continues to optimize game performance every time, especially those of old games such as DX9 and DX11, which still need to be improved.

At the end of 2022, Intel updated a version of Arc 31.0.101.3959, which focuses on providing optimized support for many games, including 3 DX11 games and 8 DX9 games, including popular masterpieces such as LOL, CS:GO, DOTA2 and StarCraft 2, as well as several domestic games.

For DX9 games, according to Intel officials, the new driver increases the average frame by 80%.The 99th frame, which represents the situation of Catton, has increased by 130%, more than doubled, and it can be said that it has been beaten with chicken blood.

For this driver, the PCWorld website has done practical tests. In DX9 games such as CS:GO and GTA 5, the performance has improved significantly, and the performance of CS:GO has even doubled. The improvement of 1% low low frame rate is especially obvious, and the game experience is completely different.

They also continue to track the performance of Intel Arc graphics cards, and recently relived the performance of several newly released games using the Arc A770 as an example, such as "Heritage of Hogwarts", "Cyberpunk 2077", "Marvel Spider-Man", "Killer 3" and so on.

The main purpose of this experience is to check whether there is bug in the game, and the result is that the performance in these games is very good, the performance is smooth, and there is no previous crash problem, even after the light chase can run smoothly, which is completely different from the previous performance and impressive.

In addition to the performance improvement brought about by driver optimization, the price of Intel's Arc A750/A770 graphics card has been greatly reduced this year. The A750 has dropped to US $249, and the domestic price is less than 2000 CNY. There is no competitor at this price, and the performance-to-price ratio is more than 70% higher than the competitor's RTX 3060 graphics card.

Generally speaking, in less than a year after Intel entered the game graphics card market, the Arc series has brought new choices to players, and the previous driver optimization is no longer Wu Xia Ameng, which is impressive.

After the driver optimization has made up for the deficiency, coupled with the reduction in the price of the graphics card, the advantages of the Intel Arc graphics card have emerged, and the A750 will ride the dust at the current price.If you want to play 1080p and 2K games well within 2000 yuan, this graphics card should be the only choice.