Intel Arc A770 GPU gets new drivers – and that’s good and bad news
Intel has released a new graphics driver for Arc A770 and the A750 GPU, complete with some useful bug fixes and, more importantly, a bunch of performance improvements for some games – although admittedly some of the more modest frame rate gains .
Like Tom’s Hardware (opens in a new tab) report, driver version 31.0.101.3802 (opens in a new tab) – and note that this is still a beta – giving the flagship A770 a performance boost of up to 8%. That particular enhancement is for Dirt 5 at 1440p with ‘extreme’ settings.
Another significant boost is offered with Ghostwire Tokyo, which can run up to 7% faster, again at 1440p (with ‘cinematic’ settings). Furthermore, Gotham Nights runs up to 5% faster at 1080p with the highest preset.
There are a few other games that get a frame rate boost, but they’re all more modest at 3%. That includes Chorus (1440p, ‘epic’ settings), Far Cry 6 (1080p and 1440p ‘ultra’), Forza Horizon 5 (1080p ‘extreme’, 1440p ‘high’), Guardians of the Galaxy (1080p ‘ultra’, 1440p ‘high’) and finally the Sniper Elite 5 (1080p ‘ultra’).
The new driver also introduces support for four new games, namely Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0, Dysterra, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Sonic Frontiers.
Intel has also applied a series of fixes here, including a solution to an issue that causes stuttering in Overwatch 2 with the A770 and A750. graphics cardand issues that caused the game to crash with Battlefield 2042 (which occurred during matchmaking) and Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered (a ray tracing reflex bug that could cause serious crashes).
Analysis: On the right track
While there are a lot of fixes here – which is obviously welcome – keep in mind that this is still a beta release, so the graphics driver is likely carrying some baggage of its own. , if there is an error.
Obviously, though, it’s good to see Intel working hard to move forward not only cleaning up the glitches, but actually tweaking the performance. Some of the gains of up to around 7% to 8% here are well worth taking, even with the caveat that they are ‘up to’ – and in the case of lower percentages you may not notice much. actually (or any) Difference.
We’re certainly not complaining, though, because if Intel steadily increases frame rates across different games with each driver release, we’ll eventually get closer to where which we want with Arc graphics cards – for smoother and more stable operation.
Once that starts to become provable, perhaps Intel could consider making itself a serious value proposition compared to what’s happening with AMD and Nvidia right now (which only opens up new products). expensive products). high-end graphics card for the next generation, or at least that’s all we’ve seen hitherto).