Intel Arc GPU Driver Now Supports Lunar Lake “Core Ultra 200V” With Arc 140V & 130V “Xe2” iGPUs

Intel's Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPUs now receive first driver support for their Arc 140V & Arc 130V "Xe2" iGPUs.

Intel released a brand new Intel Arc & Iris Xe Graphics driver on 23rd August, adding support for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and various optimizations for Intel-based systems. What went unnoticed is the fact that Intel also added support for new hardware in the GPU driver v32.0.101.5972. The driver now officially supports Xe2-based Intel Arc 130V and Arc 140V graphics that come with the upcoming Lunar Lake chips.

This means Intel has officially provided support for the Arc 140V and Arc 130V iGPUs for stable and optimized performance. However, the product list still has upcoming Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V chips missing, which should be coming very soon as we approach the launch date in the first week of September.

Intel Arc 140V and Arc 130V are part of the Lunar Lake chips based on the Xe2-LPG architecture but it's the first time the official names for these iGPUs have been confirmed by Intel itself. The Lunar Lake processors are aimed at power-efficient mobile platforms and supposedly offer a total of 9 SKUs, all of them featuring a configuration of 8 cores and 8 threads.

The key differences between the SKUs are the varying specs like clock speed, cache memory, iGPU, and iGPU clock speeds. The Intel Arc 130V will be part of the lower-end and mid-range Lunar Lake CPUs such as the Core Ultra 5 200V chips. The Arc 140V will be available on Core Ultra 7 and Ultra 9 200V processors.

Different SKUs will have different clock speeds for these iGPUs and the max number of Xe2 cores to be expected is 8 on the Arc 140V. This iGPU will be the most powerful on the flagship Core Ultra 9 288V, featuring a clock speed of 2.05GHz. The Arc 130V, on the other hand, will feature 7 Xe2 cores and features 1.85GHz on all the Core Ultra 5 SKUs. The Arc 140V will vary in clock speeds from 1.95GHz to 2.05GHz based on the SKU.

Right now we have plenty of leaked benchmarks for the Lunar Lake chips but just recently, we got a glimpse of the performance of Intel Arc 140V on Geekbench. Expect more such leaks to surface on the internet until the official launch on 3rd September.

News Source: @momomo_us