Intel released the newest Game On Driver for the company's Arc Graphics to optimize games on the day of launch so that games look great and perform well with its graphics cards. This update supports five new games that the company states are "the most anticipated games of 2023" and will support 11th through 13th Gen Core processors, Iris Xe Dedicated Graphics, and Arc Graphics.
The newest update, version 31.0.101.4125, was released yesterday, with users finding support in several titles, such as:
As with any new update, users should be careful and back up their data so that no information loss will happen in case of a compatibility issue or bug.
Intel has provided some benchmarks of the newest update, covering two games released since the last Game On driver update, The Settlers: New Allies and Returnal. The company wants users to see the difference in performance and the performance per dollar when choosing Intel over the company's competition.
They present the PC configurations of both systems, with the Intel Arc A750 GPU, faced up against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GPU. The systems use the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 Hero with the Corsair DOMINATOR PLATINUM RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5600 DRAM, Corsair MP600 Pro XT 4 TB NVMe.
The first slide shows the Intel Arc A750 Game On Driver performance with the abovementioned games. They tested 1080p and 1440p resolutions and compared the graphics card against NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GPU. In Returnal, for both resolutions, the Intel Arc A750 GPU outperformed the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB graphics card by improving three frames per second in 1080p and four frames per second in 1440p benchmarks. The results were even better in The Settlers: New Allies, where the Intel Arc
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