As Intel gets into discrete GPUs, it scales back support for many integrated GPUs

As Intel gets into discrete GPUs, it scales back support for many integrated GPUs

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/as-intel-gets-into-discrete-gpus-it-scales-back-support-for-many-integrated-gpus/

Intel is slowly moving into the dedicated graphics market, and its graphics driver releases are looking a lot more like Nvidia's and AMD's than they used to. For its dedicated Arc GPUs and the architecturally similar integrated GPUs that ship with 11th- and 12th-generation Intel CPUs, the company promises monthly driver releases, along with "Day 0" drivers with specific fixes and performance enhancements for just-released games.

At the same time, Intel's GPU driver updates are beginning to de-emphasize what used to be the company's bread and butter: low-end integrated GPUs. The company announced yesterday that it would be moving most of its integrated GPUs to a "legacy support model," which will provide quarterly updates to fix security issues and "critical" bugs but won't include the game-specific fixes that newer GPUs are getting.