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Intel improves the performance of its ARC GPUs in DirectX 9 by 79%

Intel ARC Alchemist A750 and A770 graphics cards they surprised us with a good performance in rasterization, and with a very good performance in ray tracing. In general terms, the ARC A750 performs at the level of the GeForce RTX 3060 in 1440p, and surpasses it in 4K, while the ARC A770 is above the Radeon RX 6600 XT in 4K.

Intel failed to break through to the high-end, but in the end it shaped two very competent and quite interesting mid-range graphics solutions, especially considering that it was its first adventure in the graphics sector after several decades. However, the Santa Clara giant I had a pending account with the performance of some DirectX 9 based games, and it seems that it has finally started to pay off.

Intel DirectX 9

We already told you at the time that Intel had decided to use a translator to move the games under DirectX 9, a measure that allowed simplify workloads and pipeline management, and that it was emerging as the best option so that those in Santa Clara could dedicate more resources to improve performance under DirectX 11. We might think that it was normal since DirectX 9 is an obsolete API, but the problem is that very popular games, such as CS:GO, which is part of the Intel Extreme Master tournament, depend on said API.

Intel DirectX 9

With this in mind, it is not surprising that Intel has decided to focus on giving a new boost to the performance of its GPUs under DirectX 9, and thanks to the improvements it has introduced in its latest drivers, it has been able to increase performance by up to 79%. . The attached graph perfectly illustrates the various performance gains that have occurred with the latest drivers, ranging from a modest 0.3% in Guild Wars 2, a title that already allows DirectX 11 mode to be enabled, up to 79% performance improvement in CS:GO in 1080p and 77% in 1440p.

Intel DirectX 9

In other important titles within electronic sports, such as League of Legends, we have a performance improvement of 36% at 1080p and 52% at 1440p. The graphs on the left reflect 1080p performance at high quality, and those on the right reflect performance at 1440p at ultra quality. It is important to note that these performance improvements will not only be present on Intel ARC A750 and A770 GPUs, but will be extended to all models of the ARC Alchemist series, including laptop GPUs.

Intel has also confirmed that the minimum FPS rate has also improved substantially with the latest drivers, theoretically increasing by 2.3 times. This means that the minimum frame rates per second, what we know as the “1% percentile”, have increased by more than double compared to the results obtained with previous drivers.



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