Hate waiting for games to load? Intel's new trick for Arc GPUs will be music to your ears, especially if you have a handheld

Wccftech reports (via Tech PowerUp) that Intel's Precompiled Shaders feature is available with the latest Arc driver, and can be used by Intel Battlemage desktop GPUs, as well as Xe2 and Xe3 integrated graphics (in Core Ultra Series 3 and 200V chips for thin-and-light laptops, or handhelds). So what Intel does is precompile these shaders, and it has these stored in the cloud — then when its graphics app examines your installed games, and sees one it has shaders for, they're automatically downloaded and put in place. We're talking about loading times that are typically twice or three times as fast, but some games can receive massive boosts — like God of War Ragnarok, which is 21x faster on an Arc B580 (or a mind-boggling 37x faster with the B390 integrated graphics on the new Panther Lake flagship).

Author: Darren Allan

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