Intel® Arc™ Pro Graphics - Windows*

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Highlights of this Workstation Driver:

• Performance improvements on Intel® Arc™ Pro Graphics Products versus Intel® (Q3, 2024) 32.0.101.5978 software driver for: SPECviewperf* 2020 v3.1 benchmark*. Up to 11% average score10 uplift at 1080p with Medical with Built-in Intel® Arc™ Pro GPUs in select Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors (series 1). As well as up to 13% average score9 uplift at 1080p with Medical with Intel® Arc™ Pro A40/A50/A60 GPUs.
• User experience improvements for Adobe Premiere Pro*, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio*, Blender*, and Topaz Video AI*.
• New 2024 R2 versions of Ansys Discovery*, EnSight*, Mechanical*, Icepack* & Fluent*, new 2025 version of Nemetschek Vectorworks* and new 2024 versions of Bentley MicroStation*, CONNECTION Client and iTwin Capture Modeler* added to ISV certifications.

This workstation driver release builds upon other recent driver updates that include:

• September 2024 - Performance improvements on Intel® Arc™ Pro A-series Graphics Products for: SPECviewperf* 2020 v3.1 benchmark* with medical* (up to 15% at 1080p)8 and Autodesk Maya* (up to 7% at 4k)8. Fixes to Adobe Premiere Pro* with PugetBench* Extended Preset Benchmark. As well as adding new 2024 version of Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS* to ISV certifications. Built-in Intel® Arc™ Pro GPUs in select Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors (series 1) will support increased graphics memory allocations of up to 57% in Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows*11 host systems. For example, a 16GB host system can have up to 9.12GB (16x0.57=9.12) working memory dynamically allocated to the Built-In Intel® Arc™ Pro GPU. Previous default memory allocation was up to 50%.
• June 2024 – Performance improvements on Intel® Arc™ Pro A-series Graphics Products for: SPECviewperf* 2020 v3.1 benchmark* with Autodesk 3ds Max* (up to 12% at 4k)8 and Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA* (up to 10% at 4k)8. Fixes to Autodesk Inventor* with GPU Ray Tracing. As well as adding new Ansys Discovery*, EnSight*, Mechanical*, Icepack* & Fluent* 2024 ISV certifications and new 2023 versions of Bentley MicroStation* and CONNECTION Client and 2024 versions of LumenRT* Pro and iTwin Capture Modeler* added to ISV certifications.
• March 2024 - Enhanced DirectX* API optimizations that help improve performance for compatible individual applications and the SPECviewperf* 2020 v3.1 benchmark. As well as user experience improvements for Blender* and Autodesk VRED*.
• December 2023 - Fixes intermittent system hang issue when exiting Bentley LumenRT*.
• October 2023 – Fixes to RFO (Autodesk Revit*) benchmark. Fixes to Adobe After Effects*, Autodesk Maya*, Autodesk VRED* and Blender*. 

OS Reference:

• Microsoft Windows® 10-64 - October 2022 Update (22H2)
• Microsoft Windows 11*-64 - October 2021 Update (21H2)
• Microsoft Windows 11-64 - September 2022 Update (22H2)
• Microsoft Windows 11-64 - October 2023 Update (23H2)
• Microsoft Windows* 11-64 (24H2)

Platform (OS Support)

• 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processor family (Codename Rocket Lake-S)
• 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processor family (Codename Alder Lake-S)
• 13th Gen Intel® Core™ processor family (Codename Raptor Lake-S)
• 14th Gen Intel® Core™ processor family (Codename Raptor Lake-S Refresh)
• Intel® Core™ Ultra processor family (Codename Meteor Lake-H, Arrow Lake-S)
• Intel® Arc™ Graphics family (Codename Alchemist)

Notes

• Self-installing format (.exe) is the easiest installation method and our recommendation.

See the Release Notes for installation instructions, supported hardware, and more.

About Intel® software and drivers

The driver or software for your Intel® component might have been changed or replaced by the computer manufacturer. We recommend you work with your computer manufacturer before installing our driver so you don’t lose features or customizations.

See a list of computer manufacturer support websites.