The difficulty of getting graphics drivers right and more generally optimizing GPU performance is known. At the same time, it’s hard not to be a little exasperated with Intel and its Arc graphics cards.
Intel surely knew how tough it was going to be. It’s hardly a newbie in the tech space, so surely it put in all the work to do the job before it launched those first Arc graphics cards in 2022? As it turned out, Arc GPUs launched with frame rates all over the place. It did nothing for Arc’s reputation, and Intel has been catching up ever since.