Intel graphics driver v27.20.100.9079 releases

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The hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling is a new feature supported in Windows 10 20H1. Nvidia and AMD have already supported this feature as early as the summer.

Intel Corporation has promised to support this feature, but until now, it has released several driver updates but still does not support this feature.

In the latest version, Intel graphics driver v27.20.100.9079, Intel continues to optimize the game, including driver bug fixes and improvements.

It’s just that there is still no hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling function in this update. It is estimated that Intel will not support this function at the end of this year.

During the Windows 10 Insider Preview version, Microsoft is building a hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling function, which is actually aimed at improving display performance.

According to Microsoft, the new hardware-accelerated scheduling function allows graphics card manufacturers to manage their own display memory without relying on Microsoft to allocate display memory.

The significant advantage of this approach is that users can get better display performance, while the delay is reduced and helps to improve the display frame rate and playback effect.

In Windows 10 version 2004, Microsoft has optimized the memory management authority of the graphics display card to return the management authority to the graphics card processor.

The dedicated scheduling processor attached to the graphics card will be responsible for the display memory allocation, and there is no need to preprocess the data by the CPU processor before assigning it to the graphics card.

In this process, the burden can be reduced for the CPU processor, and the efficiency can be improved for the GPU processor without waiting for the CPU to process.

For low-end graphics cards, the hardware acceleration scheduling function can help improve overall performance. High-end graphics cards have very good performance, so the optimization acceleration effect is not obvious.

From the current test situation, the hardware acceleration and GPU scheduling functions of Nvidia and AMD are both effective, so this is indeed a more practical new function.

But this must be adopted by the hardware device manufacturer using the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.7 model, which means that the driver must be updated to support this feature.

Intel has promised in the support document that it will provide WDDM 2.7+ drivers in 2020, and it can also support Microsoft’s new hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. Intel is unlikely to support this feature in the remaining few days of this year, so expecting users can only wait for next year.