Intel ARC Alchemist A750 and A770 graphics cards they surprised with a good performance in rasterization and with very good performance in ray tracing. In general, the ARC A750 is on par with the GeForce RTX 3060 at 1440p and beats it at 4K, while the ARC A770 is above the Radeon RX 6600 XT at 4K.

Although Intel failed to break into the high-end, it ended up forming two very competent and quite interesting mid-range graphics solutions, especially considering that this was its first adventure in the graphics sector in several decades. However, the Santa Clara giant I had a pending account with the performance of some DirectX 9 based games and it seems that it has finally started to pay off.

We already told you back then that Intel decided to use the compiler to move games under DirectX 9, a measure that allows simplify the workload and pipeline management, and that it turns out to be the best option for those in Santa Clara to devote more resources to improving performance under DirectX 11. We might think that this was normal because DirectX 9 is an outdated API, but the problem is that that very popular games such as CS:GO, which is part of the Intel Extreme Master tournament, depend on the said API.

With this in mind, it’s not surprising that Intel decided to focus on a new performance boost for its GPUs under DirectX 9, and with the improvements it introduced in its latest drivers, it was able to increase performance. up to 79%. The attached chart perfectly illustrates the various performance gains that have occurred with the latest drivers, from a measly 0.3% in Guild Wars 2, a title that already allows DirectX 11 mode to be turned on, up to 79% performance improvement in CS:GO at 1080p and 77% at 1440p.

In other important eSports titles like League of Legends, we have performance improvement of 36% at 1080p and 52% at 1440p. The graphs on the left reflect performance at 1080p in high quality and those on the right reflect performance at 1440p in ultra quality. It is important to note that these performance improvements will not only be present on the Intel ARC A750 and A770 GPUs, but will be extended to all models of the ARC Alchemist series, including notebook GPUs.

Intel also confirmed that the minimum FPS rate has also improved substantially with the latest drivers, theoretically increasing by 2.3 times. This means that the minimum frame rate per second, which we know as the “1% percentile”, compared to the results, they increased more than twice obtained with previous drivers.