Chip Shot: Advancements in Gaming Unveiled by Intel at GDC

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The first public demo of the 5th gen Intel® Core™ desktop processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, due mid-year.

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Intel announced new programs, tools, utilities and games available for Intel users and developers taking advantage of Intel’s latest CPU and graphics platform capabilities. Intel demonstrated the first desktop 5th gen Intel® Core™ processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, coming this summer. Applications from key ISVs such as Codemasters*, Ubisoft*, and Funcom* as well as Microsoft* DirectX 12 applications running smoothly on Intel graphics were demonstrated and a new developer program “Achievement Unlocked” was announced. The company also announced a leading gaming software utility from Raptr* available for the first time on Intel graphics that automatically adjusts a PCs’ game settings for optimal gameplay.  Read this blog for more information.

Chip Shot: Advancements in Gaming Unveiled by Intel at GDC

Intel5thgencore_IrisPro.jpg

The first public demo of the 5th gen Intel® Core™ desktop processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, due mid-year.

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Intel announced new programs, tools, utilities and games available for Intel users and developers taking advantage of Intel’s latest CPU and graphics platform capabilities. Intel demonstrated the first desktop 5th gen Intel® Core™ processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, coming this summer. Applications from key ISVs such as Codemasters*, Ubisoft*, and Funcom* as well as Microsoft* DirectX 12 applications running smoothly on Intel graphics were demonstrated and a new developer program “Achievement Unlocked” was announced. The company also announced a leading gaming software utility from Raptr* available for the first time on Intel graphics that automatically adjusts a PCs’ game settings for optimal gameplay.  Read this blog for more information.

Chip Shot: Advancements in Gaming Unveiled by Intel at GDC

Intel5thgencore_IrisPro.jpg

The first public demo of the 5th gen Intel® Core™ desktop processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, due mid-year.

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Intel announced new programs, tools, utilities and games available for Intel users and developers taking advantage of Intel’s latest CPU and graphics platform capabilities. Intel demonstrated the first desktop 5th gen Intel® Core™ processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, coming this summer. Applications from key ISVs such as Codemasters*, Ubisoft*, and Funcom* as well as Microsoft* DirectX 12 applications running smoothly on Intel graphics were demonstrated and a new developer program “Achievement Unlocked” was announced. The company also announced a leading gaming software utility from Raptr* available for the first time on Intel graphics that automatically adjusts a PCs’ game settings for optimal gameplay.  Read this blog for more information.

Chip Shot: Advancements in Gaming Unveiled by Intel at GDC

Intel5thgencore_IrisPro.jpg

The first public demo of the 5th gen Intel® Core™ desktop processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, due mid-year.

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Intel announced new programs, tools, utilities and games available for Intel users and developers taking advantage of Intel’s latest CPU and graphics platform capabilities. Intel demonstrated the first desktop 5th gen Intel® Core™ processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, coming this summer. Applications from key ISVs such as Codemasters*, Ubisoft*, and Funcom* as well as Microsoft* DirectX 12 applications running smoothly on Intel graphics were demonstrated and a new developer program “Achievement Unlocked” was announced. The company also announced a leading gaming software utility from Raptr* available for the first time on Intel graphics that automatically adjusts a PCs’ game settings for optimal gameplay.  Read this blog for more information.

Chip Shot: Advancements in Gaming Unveiled by Intel at GDC

Intel5thgencore_IrisPro.jpg

The first public demo of the 5th gen Intel® Core™ desktop processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, due mid-year.

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Intel announced new programs, tools, utilities and games available for Intel users and developers taking advantage of Intel’s latest CPU and graphics platform capabilities. Intel demonstrated the first desktop 5th gen Intel® Core™ processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, coming this summer. Applications from key ISVs such as Codemasters*, Ubisoft*, and Funcom* as well as Microsoft* DirectX 12 applications running smoothly on Intel graphics were demonstrated and a new developer program “Achievement Unlocked” was announced. The company also announced a leading gaming software utility from Raptr* available for the first time on Intel graphics that automatically adjusts a PCs’ game settings for optimal gameplay.  Read this blog for more information.

Chip Shot: Advancements in Gaming Unveiled by Intel at GDC

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Intel announced new programs, tools, utilities and games available for Intel users and developers taking advantage of Intel’s latest CPU and graphics platform capabilities. Intel demonstrated the first desktop 5th gen Intel® Core™ processor with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics, coming this summer. Applications from key ISVs such as Codemasters*, Ubisoft*, and Funcom* as well as Microsoft* DirectX 12 applications running smoothly on Intel graphics were demonstrated and a new developer program “Achievement Unlocked” was announced. The company also announced a leading gaming software utility from Raptr* available for the first time on Intel graphics that automatically adjusts a PCs’ game settings for optimal gameplay.  Read this blog for more information.

Chip Shot: Intel Graphics Momentum Showcased at IDF, and the Future’s Even More ‘Visual’

Last week at IDF Intel showed developers the latest and greatest in Intel® processor graphics technologies. Intel is the number one PC Graphics company by volume according to the latest Q3 ’14 Mercury Research study, and developers attended dozens of IDF sessions and demos last week to get an update. Key news around OpenCL 2.0 support in our new Intel® Core™ M processor family, ‘Gen8’ graphics architecture, Intel® Wireless Display, and high-performance Intel® Iris™ and Iris™ Pro graphics was disclosed. Read more here.

Chip Shot: Latest Intel® Graphics Driver Update Delivers Stunning Performance Improvements

A major graphics driver update for 4th generation Intel® Core™ processors with Intel® HD graphics, Iris™, and Iris Pro graphics has been released. It provides significant gaming performance improvements with Intel’s anti-aliasing feature CMAA (Conservative Morphological Anti-Aliasing, which helps smooth jagged edges in games) while enhancing battery life through newer power conservation techniques such as Adaptive Rendering Control. Experience up to 30% improvement in performance in certain OpenCL workloads and up to 10% improvement with certain games (see driver release notes for details). The new and enhanced graphics control panel offers additional media and display customization capabilities. Download the latest drivers for 32-bit and 64-bit.