Following in Nvidia's footsteps, Intel has now officially adopted Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery to make shader compilation much faster in games. Intel is calling it Precompiled Shader Distribution and it's available on a bunch of Arc GPUs right away, supported in 11 games at launch, with more likely to follow. AMD is now the only company left who hasn't officially embraced this feature.
XeSS 3.0 has been available inside Intel's graphics driver suite for some time now, but the chipmaker has finally released the accompanying SDK for game developers, albeit only in closed-source form.
GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.59 is said to disable one of the fans on Nvidia RTX 30-series and newer GPUs, even without third-party apps like MSI Afterburner.
Intel XeSS 3 Frame Generation is shown to work effectively, even on entry-level GPUs. Cyberpunk 2077 increased from 55 to 60 FPS to as high as 140 FPS with MFG enabled.
The latest Intel graphics drivers introduce XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation with 2x, 3x, and 4x modes, supporting existing XeSS 2 games without requiring developer updates
We had the opportunity to sit down with AMD at CES 2026 for a press roundtable discussion, where we discussed ROCm and other AMD software, as captured in this transcript of AMD's Q&A session.
Users on X have benchmarked Nvidia's latest 581.94 hotfix driver that fixes performance issues stemming from Microsoft's October cumulative update for Windows 11.
AMD's recent driver release continues to be surprisingly turbulent, with further clarification that it won't stop game optimization for older RDNA1 and RDNA2 cards, despite the release notes suggesting as such. This also comes after another error in the release notes that said USB-C power would no longer work on RX 7900 cards.
The company says Windows 10 users can still install the Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 drivers via the Windows 11 installer, even as Microsoft’s older OS officially moves into end-of-life status.
AMD has backtracked on putting RDNA 1 and 2 into a maintenance mode that wouldn't include game optimizations, telling Tom's Hardware new features will be included based on "market needs."
AMD ended mainstream driver support for its RDNA 1 and 2 GPUs in a new update that sought to focus on the RX 7000 and 9000 series for day-one optimizations for new releases. This could mean trouble for handhelds that rely on tuning to achieve their full potential on Windows, and without AMD's driver to back them up, they might be left high and dry.
Data mining has revealed that AMD is working on a third iteration of Fluid Motion Frames, according to developer notes discovered in the preview version of Adrenalin driver 25.20. AFMF 3 will likely incorporate the same ML model used in FSR 4.
Intel might be working on its own multi-frame generation to combat Nvidia and AMD. Buried within the latest Arc graphics fiver, someone on Reddit found mentions of "Multi-Frame Generation (XeSS)" along with a potential logo — all hinting at Intel's own multi-frame gen tech.
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