Intel fixes memory slowdown issue with the reference Arc A770 16GB Limited Edition

Intel has announced that it has solved an issue with GDDR6 memory slowdown in the reference Arc A770 16 GB Limited Edition graphics card.
The manufacturer has released a new beta version of the driver, which fixes this bug in a software way, as well as solving a number of other problems.Image source: IntelIt was previously reported that some owners of the reference graphics cards Intel Arc 770 Limited Edition with 16 GB of memory have encountered discrepancies with the actual specifications of the gas pedal declared by the manufacturer.
In particular, a number of owners noted that their graphics cards did not deliver the claimed GDDR6 memory speed of 17.5 Gbps per pin.
Instead, the memory was running at 16Gbps.
As a result, the memory bandwidth dropped from the claimed 560 GB/s to 512 GB/s.An Intel representative said via its Twitter page that the company has released a new beta version of the Arc Graphics Driver 31.0.101.3793.
The new software solves the problem.
\"For those who haven't seen it yet, we've released a new beta version of the driver that solves the problem.
This was a bug on our end.
We will now double check during the [driver] validation process to make sure we don't make similar mistakes in the future,\" Intel commented.Image source: CapcomThe new Arc Graphics Driver 31.0.101.3793 also fixes a number of issues with Arc graphics cards in games.
For instance, Marvels' Spider-Man (DirectX 12) fixes an issue with textures when Ambient Occlusion is turned off or the HBAO+ setting is used.
Also fixed texture corruption issue in Payday 2 when using DirectX 9 API.
Resident Evil Village with DirectX 11 fixed a bug with distorted colors.
In Age of Empire II & III: Definitive Edition the problem with display text in the game menu has been resolved, and in the application Topaz Video Enhance AI corrected performance problems with the video card Arc A380.In addition, the new driver provides support for graphics cards Arc games Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Resident Evil Village Gold Edition and Victoria 3Pick up Arc Graphics Driver 31.0.101.3793 from the official Intel website (in Russia requires VPN).

NVIDIA opens source code for Linux kernel graphics drivers

Nana Dua, Unsplash NVIDIA took a huge step towards the open-source application development community the day before by opening the Linux kernel driver source code for its graphics gas pedals.
The first open source driver has already been released, it's version R515 (515.43.04), the code is published in GitHub repository under the GPL/MIT dual license, also the company places ready-made builds.AdvertisementThe open source driver supports a wide range of graphics gas pedals based on Turing and Ampere architectures, it is fully ready for data center solutions, graphics support for business and consumer systems is still in alpha stage, but already allows to use some features and proprietary technology Added support for multiple displays, G-SYNC adaptive sync, NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in Vulkan, and the NVIDIA OptiX rendering engine.
NVIDIA will continue to improve support based on feedback from the community, third party developers, and working with companies such as Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE, with the open source driver potentially replacing the closed source one.
The benefits of an open source driver development approach include improved security, improved performance of NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, easier distribution, and easier integration with broader Linux communities.
Linux gamers are already looking forward to the inclusion of Valve's SteamOS distribution's Gamescope window composer support in NVIDIA drivers, as well as support for NVIDIA Image Scaling in the Proton compatibility layer, says GamingOnLinux.Source:NVIDIAGamingOnLinuxThere is a reward for this postIt was written by a website visitor and there are rewards for it.