Intel Arc GPUs Get Another Major Performance-Boosting Driver, Up To 63% Improvement Across Latest AAA Games

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Intel has released its latest performance-boosting driver for Arc graphics which delivers one hell of an improvement across various AAA games.

The latest Game On Driver version 31.0.101.4311, which is still in beta, matches the releases of Dead Island 2, Minecraft Legends, and Boundary to offer day-one support. Additionally, the blue team prepared the driver for Total War: Warhammer III's newest downloadable content, Mirror of Madness. You can find the latest drivers here for download.

As per recent Game On Drivers from Intel, the company wants to ensure gamers that the performance of its graphics cards, ray tracing capabilities, and PPD, or Performance Per Dollar, is superior to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GPU. But why is Intel pushing Total War: Warhammer III's DLC today? It turns out that Mirror of Madness was co-developed by the company.

Let's look at the numbers to see the performance gains by going with Intel instead of NVIDIA.

Looking at the Intel Arc A750's performance against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB resource model in the previous driver and the current driver, Intel increased the average frames per second in the newly updated Dead Space game, jumping up an additional 30 fps in 1080p Ultra modes and 20 fps in 1440p High modes. NVIDIA's performance outshined the previous driver, version 4257, but is almost even with the newest update, if not losing by a skinny margin of two to five frames.

Performance per USD shows that in the Intel-optimized Total War: Warhammer III DLC, Mirror of Madness, the company increases 62 to 72 percent compared to NVIDIA's GPU. Remember that the Intel Arc A750 GPU is currently $249, and NVIDIA's RTX 3060 12 GB is averaging $388. The same cards are compared to new releases