We're used to updating our graphics card drivers, installing the latest Detonators or Catalysts, Omegas or Adrenalines, but it's not often that we get the chance to see a newly hatched graphics monster unfurl its wings and learn to fly. From the perspective of PC gaming's natural history, the launch of Intel's Arc Alchemist cards in 2022 was an evolutionary moment, the nascent GPUs peeping out of their chrysalis and using their launch drivers to make sense of the world.
Since then, we've been able to watch as the new cards have gone from strength to strength through driver updates. Having an all-Intel gaming PC, with no input from Nvidia or AMD, is now completely possible, and we wanted to test the improvements brought by the latest Intel Arc drivers.
