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- 1Intel Arc GPU doubles AI inference speed with software tweaks●From 5 to 13 tokens/second without buying anything: my Intel Arc GPU had a second engine it wasn't using. An evening wit
A user reports boosting local AI text generation on an Intel Arc GPU from 5 to 13 tokens per second without new hardware, by enabling a second compute engine the card already had. They describe an evening spent working with Vulkan and SYCL, along with a benchmark that gave misleading results before the fix.
- 2Intel Arc GPU doubles AI token speed with a second engine●Da 5 a 13 token al secondo senza comprare nulla: la mia GPU Intel Arc aveva un secondo motore che non usava. Una serata
An Italian developer reports boosting local AI inference on his Intel Arc GPU from 5 to 13 tokens per second without buying any hardware, after discovering the card had an unused second compute engine. He spent an evening working with Vulkan and SYCL, and says an initial benchmark had misled him about real performance. He published a full write-up of the process.
- 3Intel XeSS with XMX support now works under Proton●Experimental Project Gets Intel XeSS On XMX Working With Valve's Steam Play (Proton)
An experimental project has enabled Intel's XeSS upscaling on XMX hardware within Valve's Proton compatibility layer, which lets Windows games run on Linux via Steam Play. Intel and Linux gaming enthusiasts are following the development closely, as hardware-accelerated XeSS could improve performance and image quality for games running on Linux systems with Arc GPUs.