Intel is once again making a foray into standalone graphics, and its graphics driver updates are getting closer and closer to Nvidia and AMD. For standalone Arc GPUs and similarly-architected integrated graphics, Intel promises to release a new driver each month with specific fixes and performance enhancements for newly released games. At the same time, Intel has scaled back support for older chipsets in the past, moving most of them to legacy support mode , and will provide quarterly updates to fix security issues and important bugs, but not include game-specific optimizations. Affected integrated display products include: sixth-generation Core (released in 2015, code-named Skylake), seventh-generation Core (released in 2016, code-named Kaby Lake), eighth-generation Core (released in 2017-2018, code-named Kaby Lake) Kaby Lake-R, Whiskey Lake and Coffee Lake), 9th Gen Core (launched in 2018, codenamed Coffee Lake), 10th Gen Core (launched 2019-2020, codenamed Comet Lake and Ice Lake), and N4000 , N5000 and N6000 series Celeron and Pentium CPUs. Intel still only provides a single driver installer, but the installation includes two drivers, one for the new architecture’s discrete and integrated graphics, and the other for the legacy integrated graphics in legacy support mode.
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