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Intel’s Open-Source Driver Team Confirms ARC DG2 Variant With 448 EUs Exists

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Mesa, the open-source Open GL and Vulkan driver, recently saw a commit submitted, showing that Intel has a slimmed-down silicon version called DG2-448. This model has previously been seen to “verify pixel pipeline optimizations introduced to the driver.” The particular patch, published by Francisco Jerez, a member of Intel’s Open-Source Driver Team, also came with …

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AMD Ryzen CPU’s L3 Latency Performance Fix To Be Resolved By Microsoft Through Windows 11 Update on 19th October, CPPC Driver on 21st

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AMD will be issuing a fix to the performance degradation issues encountered with Ryzen CPUs in Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system next week. We have received the specific dates on which the updates will be rolled out. AMD Fixes Ryzen CPU Windows 11 Performance Degradation Issues Next Week Through Microsoft Updates & Driver Release Last …

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NVIDIA Ends Game Ready Driver Support for Kepler GeForce 600 & 700 Series GPU Family

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NVIDIA has officially discontinued specific game-ready driver support for the Kepler Family of GPUs manufactured since 2012. Today, driver support for the GeForce GTX 600 series, as well as a hefty portion of the GeForce 700 series GPUs, has officially been discontinued. Farewell Kepler GPUs – NVIDIA Discontinues GeForce GTX 600 and 700 Series Game …

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RadeonSI Gallium3D driver Further Optimized For Mesa3D Version 21.3

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Mesa3D, the open-source OpenGL driver for emulation of software and acceleration of hardware for recent graphics cards, as well as primarily used in Linux, has recently merged the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, further optimizing the driver to be released during the next quarter. The Mesa project began as an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification – a …

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Intel ARC Gaming Graphics Cards Will Support Overclocking Through Driver UI at Launch

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Intel’s VP & GM or Client Graphics Products & Solutions has highlighted that ARC high-performance gaming graphics cards will be ready for overclocking at launch through the driver UI. He talked more about the Xe-HPG powered Alchemist GPU lineup in an article published on Medium, shedding light on the ARC branding, Xe-HPG architecture, and what …

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AMD Adrenalin 21.8.1 Driver Lowers 4K60 Playback Power Consumption For All RDNA 2 GPUs

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Website ComputerBase discovered that the latest AMD drivers have fixed the abnormal power consumption of RDNA 2 GPUs, primarily the newly released Radeon RX 6600 XT, during YouTube playback at 4K 60 FPS. AMD Fixes Abnormal Power Consumption of RDNA 2 GPUs During YouTube 4K 60 FPS Playback Through Latest Drivers This information could have …

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AMD Bids Farewell To GCN Architecture, Ends Driver Support For Radeon 7000, 200, 300 & Fury Series Graphics Cards

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AMD has finally ended support for its GCN GPU architecture which includes the Radeon 7000, 200, 300 & Fury series graphics cards. The aforementioned graphics families have now been moved to legacy status and no additional driver releases are planned for them. AMD Ends Driver Support For GCN Architecture Based GPUs – Includes Radeon 7000, …

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AMD FSR ‘FidelityFX Super Resolution’ Radeon Adrenalin 2020 21.6.1 Driver Now Available To Download

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AMD’s official FSR driver, the Radeon Adrenalin 2020 21.6.1, is now available for download. The driver enables support for the highly anticipated feature in select titles which were reported last week. AMD FSR ‘FidelityFX Super Resolution’ Radeon Adrenalin 2020 21.6.1 Now Available To Download The AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.6.1 driver is highly anticipated due …

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NVIDIA Officially Retiring Driver Support For Its Kepler GPUs on 31st August

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NVIDIA is going to retire driver support for its Kepler GPU architecture on the 31st of August. The Kepler lineup has been supported since 2012 but the support is now coming to an end along with support for older Windows operating systems. NVIDIA Kepler GPU Architecture (GeForce 600 / 700) Series Driver Support Officially Ends …

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Intel Iris Xe GPUs on Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs Get First Official Driver Support

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11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named “Rocket Lake-S”) deliver increased performance and speeds. Intel launched the processors on March 16, 2021. (Credit: Intel Corporation) Intel has released the first official graphics driver for its Rocket Lake CPUs featuring the Iris Xe integrated GPUs. At launch, the Rocket Lake lineup was the first desktop family …

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Nvidia Confirms The 470.05 Driver That Enabled 50 MH/s ETH Mining On The GeForce RTX 3060 Was An Accident, The ‘Secure Handshake’ Is Now A Pinky Promise

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Everyone got excited when NVIDIA released a driver that fully unlocked the cryptocurrency mining potential on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, but Nvidia has quickly cleared up the driver release as an accident and that it wasn’t intentional. The 470.05 drivers allowed a single RTX 3060 to mine ETH at its full potential of close …

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GeForce Driver 461.09 Adds a Host of Security Updates You’ll Want to Install

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GeForce driver 461.09 was released yesterday by NVIDIA. It contains the fixes that were previously released in the hotfix driver a few weeks ago, as well as a host of security updates that prevent potential denial of service, escalation of privileges, data tampering, or information disclosure issues. Below we’ve added a summary of the potential …

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GeForce Hotfix Driver 490.97 Released by NVIDIA, Fixes HDR Black Levels and Stuttering in Marvel’s Avengers

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A new GeForce hotfix driver was posted on Friday by NVIDIA. Since it may have been missed by most GeForce users (hotfix drivers are not pushed through GeForce Experience), here’s how to download it: Windows 10 64-bit Standard Driver Game Ready Driver 456.71 Is Out, Optimized for Black Ops Cold War Beta Windows 10 64-bit …

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Game Ready Driver 456.55 Adds NVIDIA Reflex to Modern Warfare/Warzone, Is Optimized for Star Wars: Squadrons

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A new Game Ready driver, version 456.55, is available today for owners of GeForce graphics cards. It enables NVIDIA Reflex, the latency-lowering technology announced recently by NVIDIA, in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and its free-to-play Battle Royale spin-off, Call of Duty: Warzone. According to NVIDIA, this can significantly reduce system latency, particularly when using …

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AMD Radeon Adrenalin Driver 20.8.3 Released, Optimized for Marvel’s Avengers & Project CARS 3

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A new Adrenalin Driver is available now for AMD’s Radeon graphics cards. Version 20.8.3 is geared towards optimizing Project CARS 3 (out today), Marvel’s Avengers (out on September 1st for those who pre-ordered the Deluxe Edition, otherwise out on September 4th), and the ever-popular Fortnite (which just got the new ‘Nexus War’ season themed around …

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