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Intel Releases Updated Battlemage Driver Preview Support For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
While there is nice out-of-the-box support for the new Intel Arc 'Battlemage' graphics cards on the new Ubuntu 25.04 release, if you prefer running the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release there isn't complete support until the next hardware enablement 'HWE' update
The primary focus is on enhancing the support for the Xe2 Battlemage and Lunar Lake platforms but these software updates can also benefit other Intel graphics hardware too. - Performance optimizations, updates, and bugfixes - Introduction of the new CCS optimization in compute-runtime - Enable debugging support for Intel Xe GPUs - Full Battlemage enablement - oneAPI Level Zero Ray Tracing improves AI/ML workload speeds via Embree on SYCL - Improved GPU + CPU ray tracing rendering performance in applications with Intel Embree support, such as Blender (v4.2+). This preview stack simply is capturing the newer upstream code and building for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS compared to what it otherwise ships out-of-the-box.
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