Intel® Arc Graphics

Intel® Graphics Software 

Intuitive and packed with features, allowing quick access to your favorite settings and an easy way to keep your visual experience up to date. 
This all-in-one hub tailors Intel® Graphics experiences with seamless optimizations and the latest drivers for improving gameplay with performance monitoring and tuning. 

Intel® Xe Super Sampling (XeSS)

XeSS brings your gaming experience into a new age with AI-enhanced upscaling, enabling more performance with high image fidelity. Each frame is rendered at a lower resolution and then intelligently upscaled to a target resolution, resulting in higher resolution visuals with a lower GPU workload. This reconstruction is performed by a neural network trained to deliver high performance and exceptional quality.  Designed with all gamers in mind, XeSS is unlocked to work on widely available hardware. 

Endurance Gaming

Get hours of long-lasting gaming on battery with intelligent Endurance Gaming power management. Choose between three modes, performance, balanced, or efficiency, to prioritize FPS for a more immersive experience or battery life for a longer session.

Ray Tracing 

Ray tracing is a rendering technique that can produce incredibly realistic lighting effects. It’s an algorithm for tracing the path of light and then simulating how the light interacts with the virtual objects it ultimately hits in the computer-generated world. 

Ray tracing enables exceptional realism across a wide range of game visuals. Ray tracing is today’s most physically accurate light simulation using true-to-life real-time calculations. With hardware-accelerated ray tracing capabilities built into every Xe HPG-based GPU, you’ll get the best lighting, shadows, and reflections for ultra-realistic gaming. 

Variable Rate Shading (VRS) 

Variable rate shading is the ability to specify the pixel shader invocation rate separately from the render target resolution and rasterization rate. It’s an important member of a class of rendering techniques that seeks to deliver high-quality visuals by giving more control over where the shading rate can be reduced while maintaining the visual fidelity of a scene. 

Precompiled Shader Distribution

Jump into your games faster with a Precompiled Shader Distribution system that downloads pre-optimized files from Intel cloud storage, leading to better launch times and smoother gaming experiences in select games.

DirectStorage 

DirectStorage is an API that allows game developers to unlock the full potential of high-speed NVME drives for loading assets. 

It enables high-speed NVME drives to load gaming files and assets quickly for gaming performance. DirectStorage redefines how we view asset streaming and opens up a new world of exciting advances for the next generation of games. 

AV1

Intel® Arc GPUs are the world’s first GPUs with hardware-accelerated encoding for AV1, the next-gen and royalty-free video codec. With the largest online video platforms adopting AV1 as the future of video, be ready to create, stream, share, and consume high-quality AV1 content, up to 8K resolution, with new levels of performance and efficiency. 

AV1 allows for fast hardware encoding with Intel® Arc Graphics compared to software encoding, unlocking more efficient game streaming for a smoother experience. 

AI Playground

The AI journey starts with AI Playground. Explore the latest in AI, from creating captivating images or editing photos with a few words to writing complex papers in seconds with Intel® Arc™ graphics.

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