Intel has still not released drivers for the iGPU in Rocket Lake CPUs

[Random_Person1234]

Summary

Intel has yet to release a driver for the iGPU in the new Rocket Lake CPUs. It has been 3 days since the release of Rocket Lake. Some reviewers were able to benchmark the iGPU by using a special press driver.

 

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According to the official website, Intel has not yet released drivers for its 11th Gen Core series. At the time of writing, the only available download is the Performance Maximizer

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We also did check on motherboard manufacturers’ websites, just in case, the driver was released by them instead. After checking numerous boards support pages, including all flagship modes, we found no new driver for 11th Gen Core S-Series onboard Xe Graphics:

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The official driver should launch in the coming weeks, Lisa Pearce, Graphics Software Engineering Director confirmed on twitter

 

My thoughts

This may be disappointing to some, since some people may buy Rocket Lake for the iGPU because of the current state of the GPU market. I also don't know why Intel would release a major product and not have drivers ready for it at launch.

 

Sources

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-awkwardly-forgot-to-release-graphics-drivers-for-rocket-lake

[MageTank]

11 minutes ago, Random_Person1234 said:

Summary

Intel has yet to release a driver for the iGPU in the new Rocket Lake CPUs. It has been 3 days since the release of Rocket Lake. Some reviewers were able to benchmark the iGPU by using a special press driver.

 

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My thoughts

This may be disappointing to some, since some people may buy Rocket Lake for the iGPU because of the current state of the GPU market. I also don't know why Intel would release a major product and not have drivers ready for it at launch.

 

Sources

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-awkwardly-forgot-to-release-graphics-drivers-for-rocket-lake

Funnily enough, you can get them through various vendor websites. Dell has them listed for their XPS 8940 models: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=xv5v3&oscode=wt64a&productcode=xps-8940-desktop.

[AMD A10-9600P]

Slightly unrelated, but I was shopping around for laptops and tried to avoid any with the Xe Max dGPUs because driver support seemed to be lacking a lot. Bad battery life, BSODs, slow downs, crashes, a lot of heat, they did not sound fun to use

[Random_Person1234]

1 minute ago, MageTank said:

Funnily enough, you can get them through various vendor websites. Dell has them listed for their XPS 8940 models: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=xv5v3&oscode=wt64a&productcode=xps-8940-desktop.

I wonder if that will work on a normal, non-Dell system. That driver was released a month and a half ago, which I find a bit strange.

[Bombastinator]

This implies it exists, it just isn’t being distributed correctly.  Arguably an even dumber derp.

[porina]

Am curious about this, what would happen if you run one without another GPU? Do MS have a driver via Windows Update already for example? And the more modern way to get an Intel driver is through the Driver and Support Assistant app than a dedicated download.

[Random_Person1234]

Update:

It's now up. Download here.

According to Lisa Pearce (Intel Graphics Software Engineering Director), drivers had been going to OEMs for a while, the delay was publicly posting it.