Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. A-Series?

[UserFromSumy]

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Microsoft* released the new Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.7 with the Windows® 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004, build 19041).
At the same time, WDDM 2.7 introduced a new feature named Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.
Some 3rd party applications (per example GPU-Z) are reporting that this feature is not supported on Intel drivers.

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This feature is supported on Intel Arc B-Series Graphics cards.
Currently this is not supported on Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics cards.

Any chance that A-Series will get this feature? My 4 core CPU is struggling a bit in games with Arc card. 5-15% more load its just aghhhh.

 

[Macro Device]

Hardly a shot. Intel are doing their best to catch up and their budget, both regarding time and regarding manpower, is fairly limited. Working on a feature that's only important for outliers like you (sorry to break it down like that) isn't even remotely helping them. You're better off upgrading your CPU. Good news is CPUs barely cost anything, and motherboards ain't that expensive either. Won't bulge a hefty dent in your pocket.

 

[Princess Garnet]

That feature would unlikely alleviate a CPU bottleneck anyway. Most of the tests I've seen done on it seemed to imply the difference in games is inconclusive and it makes a small difference one way or the other.

I don't what quad core CPU you have, but if it's from what I call the "quad core era" (pre-8th generation Intel) as opposed to being a newer one, then it lacks the ability to do resizable BAR, which greatly lowers performance for Intel's Arc graphics cards anyway. I can't remember when this was added on Intel's side, somewhere around 10th or 11th generation I think?

If it is a newer CPU with that feature (which would suggest Core i3), then it may be struggling as a result of those particular games wanting more cores (and/or faster cores). Four is more often coming up short these days. The lower end CPUs also have lower clock speed and cache which may lower performance. An in-platform CPU upgrade may be worthwhile.