TechPowerUp today released the latest version of the popular GPU-Z graphics sub-system information, monitoring, and diagnostic utility. Version 2.59.0 adds support for new GPUs, but also fixes a few important issues with the application. To begin with, support is added for the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada and RTX 1000 Ada Laptop GPUs. An application launch error on Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems reading "unsigned driver cannot load" has been fixed.

The other issues resolved mainly concern the way PCI resizable BAR status is detected. On external GPUs, resizable BAR status was appearing as "enabled." This has been fixed. eGPUs lack resizable BAR support due to the limitations of USB interconnect. On notebooks with NVIDIA Optimus GPUs that support resizable BAR, the status was being reported as "disabled" when the discrete GPU is sleeping, which has been fixed. Lastly, instances where resizable BAR support is reporting as "Yes" instead of "enabled" or "disabled" has been fixed. Grab TechPowerUp GPU-Z from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp GPU-Z 2.59.0

EK, the renowned leader in computer cooling technology, is introducing the EK-Nucleus AIO Replacement Cover - Creator Kit, an optional replacement pump unit top for the EK Nucleus series AIO coolers that allows users to 3D print over the base and build their own unique AIO aesthetic. It replaces the stock top cover of the award-winning Nucleus AIOs available in 240 and 360 mm sizes, both of which come in black and white finishes.

In the Creator Kit box, users get a 3D-printed light guide with magnets, which is used as a platform for their 3D-printed creations. It is meant as a light diffuser, and the user gets to pick where it shines through by building specially designed extrudes of the 3D print. EK prepared a 3D model of the pump unit and a printed base, which can be remodeled and customized.

TechPowerUp today released the latest version of TechPowerUp GPU-Z, the graphics sub-system information, diagnostic, and monitoring utility for enthusiasts, gamers, and engineers. Version 2.58.0 adds initial support for Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors. Support is also added for AMD Radeon RX 7600M graphics. In the NVIDIA side of things, support is added for several exotic GPUs such as the RTX 3500 "Ada," RTX 3050 4 GB, and A500. Periodic stuttering in Counter Strike 2 and certain other games, due to GPU-Z accessing the underlying Radeon hardware has been fixed. Video BIOS version reporting is added for Intel "Alder Lake," "Raptor Lake," and "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors. Framework and Aetina notebook sub-vendor IDs have been added with this release. Support for Shader Model 6.7 and 6.8 has been added. DXVA now supports 8K resolution profile reporting. The PCIe resizable BAR reporting will correctly report status for NVIDIA "Turing" GPUs now, previously it was limited to Ampere and newer.

Data formatting of some OpenCL size values has been improved in the Advanced tab with this release. The GPU-Z installer is now digitally signed. The ROP count of Radeon RX 7900 GRE and NVIDIA A40 now correctly display. AMD "Zen 4" mobile processor memory type displaying as DDR5 when LPDDR5 memory installed, has been fixed. A rare bluescreen on some AMD GPUs has been fixed. Grab GPU-Z from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp GPU-Z v2.58.0

Yesterday, NVIDIA released the latest version of its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 3.7.0. The newest version promises to improve image quality. Among the most notable additions is the now default "E" quality preset. This builds upon the previous DLSS versions but introduces noticeably sharper images, generally improved fine detail stability, reduced ghosting, and better temporal stability in general compared to DLSS 3.5. It has been tested with Cyberpunk 2077 in the YouTube video with the comparison between DLSS 3.5.10, DLSS 3.6.0, and the newest DLSS 3.7.0. Additionally, some Reddit users reported seeing a noticeable difference on Horizon Forbidden West at 1440p.

Generally, the DLSS 3.7.0 version can be a drop-in replacement to the older DLSS versions. Using DLSS Tweaks, or even manually, users can patch in the latest DLSS 3.7.0 DLL and force games that weren't shipped initially or updated to support the latest DLSS 3.7.0 DLL file. We have the latest DLL download up on our Downloads section on TechPowerUp, so users can install DLSSTweaks and grab the desired file version on our website.

Grab the latest DLSS 3.7.0 DLL file here.

TechPowerUp and Arctic brought six of our readers a unique opportunity to win a set of CPU cooler, case fans, and thermal pastes from Arctic, with three of you getting to pick an Arctic Liquid Freezer III AIO of your choice, three P-series PST case fans, and a tube of MX-6 TIM; and three others getting to pick their choice of Freezer 36 series air coolers, case fans, and the TIM. Entries closed on March 31, and the winners are in!

The following three win their pick of Liquid Freezer III series AIO CLC, plus three P-series PST case fans of their choice (besides the fans included with the AIO); plus a tube of MX-6:

• H. H. from Poland
• Saud A. from the United Arab Emirates
• HorribleGamr from the United States

The following three win their pick of Freezer 36 series air CPU coolers, plus three P-series PST case fans of their choice (besides the ones included with the cooler); plus an MX-6:

• Str1000ac from Croatia
• Thomas G. from the United States
• Ralph Rommualdo Z. from The Philippines

A huge congratulations to you six! TechPowerUp and Arctic will return with more such interesting Giveaways!

In case you missed it, the TechPowerUp x Arctic Giveaway has been live since March 22. As many as six lucky winners stand to get combos of Arctic CPU coolers, case fans, and thermal compounds. Three of these get to pick a Liquid Freezer III AIO of their choice (any size- and color variant); and a trio of P-Series PWM PST case fans of their choice (any size), besides the fans included with the AIO; and an MX-6 thermal compound. Three other lucky winners, get to do the same, but with their choice of Freezer 34 series air coolers. How cool is that for a Giveaway? You need to hurry, though, as entries close in 3 days (on March 31). There's no rocket science to the Giveaway, it's open worldwide (wherever legal), you give us some basic info to help us get back to you if you've won, and you increase your chances of winning by sharing the Giveaway on your socials. Hurry!

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Without making much noise, AMD lifted the memory overclocking limits of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card with its latest Adrenalin 24.3.1 WHQL drivers, TechPowerUp found. The changelog is a bit vague and states "The maximum memory tuning limit may be incorrectly reported on AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics products."—we tested it. The RX 7900 GRE has been around since mid-2023, but gained prominence as the company gave it a global launch in February 2024, to help AMD better compete with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super. Before this, the RX 7900 GRE had started out its lifecycle as a special edition product confined to China, and its designers had ensured that it came with just the right performance positioning that didn't end up disrupting other products in the AMD stack. One of these limitations had to do with the memory overclocking potential, which was probably put in place to ensure that the RX 7900 GRE has a near-identical total board power as the RX 7800 XT.

Shortly after the global launch of the RX 7900 GRE, and responding to drama online, AMD declared the limited memory overclocking range a bug and promised a fix. The overclocking limits are defined in the graphics card VBIOS, so increasing those limits would mean shipping BIOS updates for over a dozen SKUs from all the major vendors, and requiring users to upgrade it by themselves. Such a solution isn't very practical, so AMD implemented a clock limit override in their new drivers, which reprograms the power limits on the GPU during boot-up. Nicely done, good job AMD!

Arctic, in partnership with TechPowerUp brings you the season's biggest Giveaway, to celebrate Arctic's 23rd anniversary. Open worldwide (wherever legal), six lucky winners stand to win prizes worth over $1000 in various combos of CPU coolers, case fans, and thermal compounds from Arctic! Three winners get to pick their favorite model of Arctic's new Liquid Freezer III AIO CPU cooler (among the various radiator size variants), plus three matching case fans of their choice; plus a tube of MX-6 thermal compound. Three other winners get to pick their choices of Freezer 36 series air CPU coolers, plus three matching case fans, and a tube of MX-6. The Giveaway is open worldwide, from today, March 22, until March 29. To enter, simply give us basic information to help us get back to you if you've won. Increase your chances of winning by sharing the Giveaway in your social media. Good luck!

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TechPowerUp's resident GPU reviewer extraordinaire—W1zzard—has grappled with a handful of custom design AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB models. Team Red and its board partners are pushing a proper/widespread Western release of the formerly China market-exclusive "Golden Rabbit Edition" GPU. TPU's initial review selection of three Sapphire cards and a lone ASRock Steel Legend OC variant garnered two Editor's Choice Awards, and two Highly Recommended badges. Sapphire's Radeon RX 7900 GRE Nitro+ was also honored with a "...But Expensive" tag, due to its MSRP of $600—the premium tier design was one of last year's launch day models in China. Western reviewers have latched onto a notable GRE overclocking limitation—all of TPU's review samples were found to have "overclocking artificially limited by AMD." Steve Walton of Hardware Unboxed has investigated whether the GRE's inherent heavily limited power specification was less of an issue on Sapphire's Nitro+ variant—check out his "re-re-review" video below.

The higher board power design—305 W OC TGP limit and 351 W total board power—is expected to exhibit "up to 10% higher performance than Radeon RX 7800 XT" according to VideoCardz, but falls short. TPU's W1zzard found the GRE Nitro+ card's maximum configurable clock of 2803 MHz: "Overclocking worked quite well on our card, we gained over 8% in real-life performance, which is well above what we usually see, but less than other GRE cards tested today. Sapphire's factory OC eats into OC potential, and maximizes performance out of the box instead. Unfortunately AMD restricted overclocking on their card quite a lot, probably to protect sales of the RX 7900 XT. While NVIDIA doesn't have any artificial limitations for overclockers, AMD keeps limiting the slider lengths for many models, this is not a gamer-friendly approach. For the GRE, both GPU and memory overclocking could definitely go higher based on the results that we've seen in our reviews today." An AMD representative has contacted Hardware Unboxed, in reaction to yesterday's Update review—the GRE's overclocking limitation is a "bug," and a fix is in the works. This situation is a bit odd, given that the Golden Rabbit Edition is not a brand-new product.

TechPowerUp today released the latest version of TechPowerUp GPU-Z, the popular graphics sub-system information, monitoring, and diagnostic utility for gamers, engineers, and enthusiasts alike. Version 2.57.0 comes with support for all of the big new GPU releases this month. These include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, RTX 4080 SUPER, and RTX 4090D; and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT. Support is also added for the Radeon 760M iGPU, the Steam Deck OLED iGPU; Tesla T4G, and A100 40 GB processors. We've also added detection for AV1 Profile 2 under the DXVA menu in the Advanced tab. The release also fixes BIOS extraction from some NVIDIA cards. Grab GPU-Z from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp GPU-Z 2.57.0

The PC master race has yielded many interesting activities for enthusiasts alike, with perhaps the pinnacle of activities being overclocking. Usually, subjects for overclocking include CPUs, GPUs, and RAM, with other components not actually being capable of overclocking. However, the enthusiast force never seems to settle, and today, we have proof of overclocking an off-the-shelf 2.5-inch SATA III NAND Flash SSD thanks to Gabriel Ferraz, a Computer Engineering graduate, and TechPowerUp's SSD database maintainer. He uses the RZX Pro 256 GB SSD in the video, a generic NAND Flash drive. The RZX Pro uses the Silicon Motion SM2259XT2 single-core, 32-bit ARC CPU running up to 550 MHz. It has two channels at 400 MHz, each with eight chip enable interconnects, allowing up to 16 NAND Flash dies to operate. The SSD doesn't feature a DRAM cache or support a host memory buffer. It has only one NAND Flash memory chip from Kioxia, uses BiCS FLASH 4 architecture, has 96 layers, and has 256 GB capacity.

While this NAND Flash die is rated for up to 400 MHz or 800 MT/s, it only ran at less than half the speed at 193.75 MHz or 387.5 MT/s at default settings. Gabriel acquired a SATA III to USB 3.0 adapter with a JMS578 bridge chip to perform the overclock. This adapter allows hot swapping of SSDs without the need to turn off the PC. He shorted two terminals in the drive's PCB to get the SSD to operate without its default safe mode. Mass Production Tools (MPTools), which OEMs use to flash SSDs, were used to change the firmware settings. Each NAND Flash architecture has its own special version of MPTools. The software directly shows control of the Flash clock, CPU clock, and output driving. However, additional tweaks like Flash IO driving with subdivisions need modifications. Control and Flash On-Die Termination (ODT) and Schmitt window trigger (referring to the Schmitt trigger comparator circuit) also needed a few modifications to make it work.

From all of us here at TechPowerUp, we wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024! 2023 really blew by as civilization and society fully returned to normal with renewed spirits and determination. We hope and pray that this holds, and that together we make 2024 even better for everyone! It's been an equally eventful year for technology, hardware, and gaming, and we can't wait to tell you all about it, in our upcoming Holiday feature looking back into the year in tech!

TechPowerUp and iRocks, a stand-out brand with innovative gaming peripherals, announced a chance for our readers from around the world to grab some of their most advanced gear. From a pool of five lucky winners, the first one gets an iRocks care package with a flagship iRocks K75M gaming keyboard with silver keyswitches; an iRocks M36 Pure RGB gaming mouse with additional grip tapes; and an iRocks C45E RGB illuminated mousepad with a wrist-rest. There are four additional winners, for the four other iRocks keyboards up for grabs—a K75M Pink, a K71R Wireless RGB, a K73M, and a K74M White. We've drawn our lucky winners, and without further ado, here they are!

• Joao from Portugal, wins an iRocks Care Package that includes an iRocks K75M keyboard with Silver keyswitches, an M36 Pure RGB mouse with additional grip tapes, and a C45E illuminated mousepad.
• Julien from France, wins an iRocks K75M Pink keyboard
• Matthew from Canada, wins an iRocks K71R White keyboard
• Stefan from Bulgaria, wins an iRocks K73M keyboard
• Aaron from the United States, wins an iRocks K74M keyboard

A huge Congratulations to the Winners! iRocks and TechPowerUp will return with more such interesting Giveaways!

Update Dec 23rd: Julien never responded to multiple emails from iRocks, we also sent him an email from TPU—no reply. That's why we've randomly selected another winner: Chaitanya from India. Congrats!

TechPowerUp and Team Group got together for the 2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping season to announce a hardware giveaway open worldwide. The Giveaway spans three of the company's most popular consumer memory brands, Team Xtreem, T-Force Cardea, and T-Create. Up for grabs were some of their fastest memory kits and client SSDs. The entries are in, and we have four lucky winners!

• Adam from Hungary, wins a Team Group T-Force Xtreem DDR5-8200 48 GB (2x 24 GB) memory kit!
• Nicolas from France, wins a Team Group T-Create Expert DDR5-7200 32 GB (2x 16 GB) memory kit
• Ruben from the United States, wins a Team Group MP44 2 TB M.2 NVMe Gen 4 SSD
• Faron from the United States, wins a Team Group T-Force Cardea A440 Pro 1 TB M.2 NVMe Gen 4 SSD

A huge Congratulations! TechPowerUp and Team Group will return with more such interesting giveaways!

TechPowerUp today announced the latest version of TechPowerUp GPU-Z, the popular graphics sub-system information and diagnostic utility for gamers, enthusiasts, and engineers alike. Version 2.56.0 adds a host of new features, usability upgrades, and support for new GPUs. To begin with, we've added the ability to list and detect DLSS 3 Frame Generation and DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction in the NVIDIA DLSS section of the Advanced tab. The DLSS Scanner that detects the versions of DLSS libraries in your installed games. It now gives you the ability top open that game's folder in its context menu and select the target DLL file in File Explorer. The Sensors tab can now show the NVIDIA crossbar clock sensor, which by default is "off," and can be enabled for monitoring in the app Settings that you can find in the hamburger menu. Fixes have been added for Intel Arc video BIOS version reporting, and release dates for Arc A580.

Among the new NVIDIA GPUs supported with TechPowerUp GPU-Z 2.56.0 are NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada, RTX 4500 Ada, new RTX 2050 Laptop GPU, L40s, and Hopper H800 PCIe AIC. Among the new AMD GPUs supported with this release are the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE, RX 6750 GRE, Radeon Pro W7700, and Pro V620 MxGPU. The new Intel GPUs supported include Intel Arc A570M, A530M, and GPU Flex 170. Grab the latest GPU-Z from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp GPU-Z 2.56.0The changelog follows.

TechPowerUp partners with iRocks to present the iRocks gaming gear Giveaway. Open worldwide, the Giveaway if your chance to refresh your gaming peripherals with one or more pieces of iRocks gaming gear. All you have to do is answer three easy questions related to iRocks gaming gear (it's easy to research and learn more about this iconic brand). From the pool off entries that get all the answers correctly, five lucky winners will be picked, the first one gets an iRocks care package with a flagship iRocks K75M gaming keyboard with silver keyswitches; an iRocks M36 Pure RGB gaming mouse with additional grip tapes; and an iRocks C45E RGB illuminated mousepad with a wrist-rest. There are four additional winners, for the four other iRocks keyboards up for grabs—a K75M Pink, a K71R Wireless RGB, a K73M, and a K74M White. Entries are open now, until November 27, 2023. All the best!

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TechPowerUp partnered with HYTE, the gaming lifestyle and peripherals brand of iBUYPOWER, to bring you the HYTE Y70 Touch Giveaway. Open over the past couple of weeks to residents in the US and Canada, the Giveaway saw one of HYTE's latest Y70 Touch case up for grabs. The Y70 Touch is a unique take on HYTE's iconic design that turns the front-left corner of the case into a functional 7th side. Over the past generations, HYTE used this as a tempered glass surface, and a mount for a liquid cooling reservoir, but has now given it a unique true-color touchscreen that lets it become a secondary display for your PC, with a myriad of uses. Hundreds of entries later, HYTE has picked a winner!

The winner is X (Twitter) user @pimpsc00by. A huge congratulations to them! TechPowerUp and HYTE will return with more such interesting Giveaways!

Our HYTE Y70 Touch Giveaway is coming to a close today! If you haven't entered yet, this is your final call to participate and stand a chance to win the incredible HYTE Y70 Touch Snow White case—the most premium variant of the iconic HYTE Y70! The case includes a true-color touchscreen panel, which connects to your graphics card and motherboard, and can serve as a second interactive display that can be made to show just about anything, including real-time system monitoring and overclocking, an extension of your game's HUD, the perfect place for your Windows 11 Widgets, and lots more!

This giveaway is open to residents of the United States and Canada, for another five hours. To enter, simply fill out the short form to help us contact you if you win. Increase your chances of winning by sharing the Giveaway with your friends and followers on social media!

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TechPowerUp partners with Team Group to bring you the Black Friday and Cyber Monday (BF-CM) Bonanza Giveaway! Open worldwide, our Giveaway presents a chance to grab one of four Team Group high performance memory and SSD products spanning across its popular brands, T-Force Xtreem, T-Force Cardea, and T-Create. There are four prizes up for grabs, which include a Team Group T-Force Xtreem DDR5-8200 48 GB (2x 24 GB) memory kit, a Team Group T-Create Expert DDR5-7200 32 GB (2x 16 GB) White memory kit; a Team Group T-Force Cardea A440 Pro Graphene 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD, and a Team Group MP44 2 TB M.2 NVMe Gen 4 SSD.

The T-Force Xtreem DDR5-8200 48 GB memory kit is the star attraction here, the perfect match for a high-end build. The T-Create Expert DDR5-7200 32 GB is pretty much all the speed and capacity you need to crush creator workloads. The MP44 is a well balanced Gen 4 SSD with 2 TB for your entire game library. The Cardea A440 Pro would make for an excellent game library addition to your build. To participate, simply fill up a short form to help us get back to you if you've won, and answer and answer a few Team Group product-related questions. The Giveaway is open until November 15, 2023. Good Luck!

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TechPowerUp is proud to announce a partnership with PNY, in which PNY XLR8 GeForce RTX graphics cards will power the hardware review test benches featured throughout the site. With a rich history as a key graphics vendor for professionals, PNY has established a longstanding partnership with NVIDIA, serving as a provider of high-end graphics cards and datacenter GPUs. They are also providing memory solutions for professional photographers and creators. More recently the company specialized into gaming graphics with its XLR8 GeForce graphics card series. Over the past two generations, the company has taken product design and development for these cards completely in-house, ensuring that gamers receive top-quality products.

The latest generation of PNY XLR8 GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards have been extensively tested by TechPowerUp, showcasing exceptional noise levels, low cooler temperatures, ample overclocking potential, efficient power management, and outstanding overall performance. We were so impressed by our first PNY RTX 40-series graphics cards, especially their fan-tuning and thermals, that we decided to incorporate PNY graphics cards as the baseline for our review test beds across the site. Our partnership with PNY will see various models of PNY XLR8 GeForce RTX graphics cards form the VGA component of the test benches, across our review test setups for CPUs, motherboards, cases, memory, SSDs, CPU coolers, and more. However, it's important to note that for graphics card reviews, the baseline values continue to be obtained from reference design graphics cards.Update 19:31 UTC: Just to clarify, this will not affect our review scoring in any way. We will continue to test AMD-based graphics cards, we will test GPUs from other manufacturers, and we will review every product in the same exact same way like we've done in the past 20 years. We simply needed a bunch of graphics cards for the test systems listed, and PNY was willing to provide them.

HYTE, the premium PC case and gaming peripherals brand from the house of iBUYPOWER, and TechPowerUp, partner to bring you the HYTE x TechPowerUp Y70 Touch Giveaway! Open to residents of the United States and Canada, the Giveaway sees one lucky winner score a HYTE Y70 Touch Snow White case, which is on sale now! The most premium variant of the iconic HYTE Y70, the Y70 Touch utilizes the signature left corner of the case with a true-color touchscreen panel. This connects to your graphics card and motherboard, and can serve as a second interactive display that can be made to show just about anything, including real-time system monitoring and overclocking, an extension of your game's HUD, the perfect place for your Windows 11 Widgets, and lots more! To participate, simply fill up a short form to help us contact you, and improve your chances of winning by sharing the Giveaway across your social media. Good Luck!

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The advent of PCIe 5.0 SSDs with Phison's E26 controllers has been a double-edged sword. While these SSDs offer impressively high data throughputs, they come with a significant drawback: severe overheating issues that can cause the SSDs not only to throttle down but to shut off entirely. TechPowerUp first noted this issue back in May, in our Corsair MP700 review, where the uncooled drive shut down after 86 seconds of reads and after 55 seconds of writes. Regarding criticism from tech reviewers, Corsair has released a firmware update (version 22.1) for its MP700 SSD to ensure that it throttles down rather than shutting off when overheated. Yet, many other SSDs like the Crucial T700, Seagate FireCuda 540, Gigabyte Aorus Gen 5 10000, and ADATA Legend 970 still suffer from temperature issues.

However, it's crucial to note that these extreme overheating problems occur only when the SSDs run without any cooling. While some manufacturers have planned firmware updates to address the issue, Corsair is the only company that has taken tangible action so far. Crucial has released a new firmware (PACR5102), but the ComputerBase report indicates that the SSD continues to shut off at high temperatures. The problem, though, can generally be mitigated with proper cooling. Whether using the included cooler or placing the SSD under a motherboard cover, temperatures usually stay below the critical limit, thus avoiding a complete shutdown. When we tested the SSTC Tiger Shark Elite 2 TB with Phison E26 (with updated firmware) without adequate cooling, the SSD continued to operate and throttled down, indicating that the remaining SSDs using this controller need a proper firmware update that throttles the SSD instead of shutting it down.

TechPowerUp today released the latest version of TechPowerUp GPU-Z, the popular graphics sub-system information, diagnostic, and monitoring utility. The latest version 2.55.0 adds support for several new recently announced GPUs, and fixes a few bugs. To begin with, GPU-Z adds support for AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT, RX 7700 XT, Ryzen Z1 iGPU, Ryzen Z1 Extreme iGPU, Radeon Pro W7500. From the NVIDIA camp, support is added for the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB, RTX 3060 (3,840 CUDA core variant), RTX 4000/5000/6000 Ada Laptop GPUs; RTX A1000 6 GB Laptop, and RTX A2000 Embedded.

Among the usability improvements include Intel Arc A-series GPUs, reporting overclocked frequency when active (rather than stock frequency); die-size and/or transistor-count corrections for NVIDIA GK208, GF119, G98, and AD107; fixed memory bus width on Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake systems; a bug that caused graphics card RGB controls to not work on Gigabyte RTX 4090 cards with GPU-Z running; and fixed ROP counts for Navi 33 silicon.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp GPU-Z 2.55.0

Graphics cards are the most dynamic hardware components of the modern PC, in need of constant driver updates to keep them optimized for the latest games. Intel may be the newest on the block with discrete gaming GPUs, with its Arc A-series competing in the mid-range, but the company has a vast software engineering muscle that ensures a constant stream of driver updates for these GPUs regardless of their smaller market share compared to entrenched players NVIDIA and AMD. A part of keeping the drivers up-to-date and understanding the user-base to improve future generations of GPUs, involves data-collection from the existing users.

The updated installer of Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers lets users decide if they want the company to collect anonymous usage data from them. For those with the data-collection already opted in, the installer leaves the data-collection component untouched in the "typical" installation option, and presents it as an optional action item in the "Customize" installation option. For those that did not opt for data-collection, the "typical" installation option doesn't sneak the component in, but presents it as an unchecked optional item in the "Customize" screen. An older version of this article stated that the data-collection component, dubbed Computing Improvement Program (CIP), would install onto unsuspecting users' machines in the "typical" installation, disregarding their prior choices with the component. We have since significantly changed our article as Intel clarified many of our questions and demystified CIF, what its scope of data-collection is, and how it makes its way to your machine with Intel's driver software.