Intel updates Arc graphics driver with 'gaming support' for the GPU titlers aren't getting

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Subscribe to our newsletter Intel has released its latest driver dump for Arc graphics cards.

And the most notable unsurprisingly-surprising update involves the new Intel Arc Pro B70 and Intel Arc Pro B65 GPUs.

Intel says the driver has been updated not just to support those GPUs but to introduce "Gaming Support" specifically.Of course, as far as we understand the G31 GPU at the heart of the Intel Arc Pro B70 was indeed originally designed for gaming.

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Since forever, there have been rumours of an Intel Arc B770 card based on G31.

But by the time Intel managed to wheel G31 out to market, the world had changed pretty dramatically, what with the AI-fuelled memory crisis among other factors.In the end, Intel specced the Arc Pro B70 with 32 GB of VRAM, far more than you'd ever need for gaming on any vaguely affordable graphics card, priced it up near $1,000 and pitched it at people wanting to run local AI models who otherwise might have bought more expensive Nvidia GPUs, like the RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell which costs around $1,800 but only offers 24 GB of memory ## Editor's Note This announcement has sparked considerable discussion among gamers. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/intel-updates-arc-graphics-driver-with-gaming-support-for-the-gpu-gamers-arent-getting/)