Why are graphics drivers so hard?
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GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE HARD. That isn’t news. Recently, however, Intel revealed details on its efforts to get its Arc GPUs running really fast. This candor makes me hopeful for its next-gen Battlemage graphics, which could appear this year. The takeaway is that Intel isn’t giving up on Arc, and there are reasons to think that Battlemage might just be the bomb.
Jeremy Laird
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.