Intel launched its Arc Pro series of workstation graphics cards last year, starting with the Arc Pro A30M for mobile devices, and the Arc Pro A40 and Arc Pro A50 for small desktops. These GPUs are based on the Xe-HPG architecture with built-in hardware ray tracing, machine learning and AV1 hardware encoding acceleration.
It is rare to see Arc Pro series workstation graphics cards on the market, mainly because Intel has only provided them to OEMs and has not retailed them. Over the past few months, Intel has done a lot of work on graphics drivers to improve the user experience, which can be seen from the Arc graphics card for ordinary gamers, but the action is still slower on workstation graphics cards. In fact, the last time Intel updated the Arc Pro graphics driver was December 5 last year, which was version 31.0.101.3517, which means it has not been updated for almost four months.
Today Intel released the Arc Pro graphics card 31.0.101.4092 WHQL driver.
This update focuses on professional application certification, and many of the previously listed software have been verified and added to the supported list:
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Autodesk 3ds Max 2022, 2023
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Autodesk AutoCAD 2022, 2023（New）
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Autodesk Fusion 360
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Autodesk Inventor 2022, 2023
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Autodesk Maya 2022, 2023
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Bentley MicroStation 10.17.00.29.x (New)
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Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS 2022, 2023（New）
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PTC Creo 8, 9 (New)
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Siemens NX 2027 (New)
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Siemens Solid Edge 2022, 2023（New）
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Vectorworks 2023 (New)
In the new version of the driver, Intel has fixed some bugs, but there are still many problems. The currently launched Arc Pro series workstation graphics cards are all based on the ACM-G11 chip, corresponding to entry-level/low-end market products. Intel has not made any comment on whether to use the ACM-G10 chip.
