Latest Intel Arc beta driver boosts GPU performance in 13 games

An Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card from various angles
(Image credit: Future)

Hot on the heels of an earlier full driver release the top Intel Arc A770 board.

Ostensibly it's a "Game On" driver release to coincide with the launches of WoW: Dragonflight, Warhammer 40K: Darktide, Midnight Suns, The Callisto Protocol, and the latest Unreal Engine 5.1 version of Fortnite. 

For a GPU architecture that was very up and down in of its gaming performance, having a new driver which aims to up its performance on a broader suite of games is certainly welcome.

Intel hasn't quantified the performance gains on offer, perhaps because this isn't a final release driver. The last official release saw some games step up by as much as 19%, so fingers crossed this latest beta driver will deliver something similar when it eventually progresses to a full release.

You can check out the full release notes and the driver here.

The full list of DX9 titles:

  • League of Legends
  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  • Payday 2
  • Stellaris
  • Starcraft 2
  • Guild Wars 2
  • NiZhan
  • Moonlight Blade

DX11 and DX12 titles:

  • Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
  • Far Cry New Dawn
  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider
  • DOTA 2
  • Dying Light 2
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Jeremy Laird
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Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.