Menu Home News Hardware Gaming Mobile Finance Deals Reviews How To Wccftech AnnouncementHardware Intel Acknowledges Performance Degradation When Arc GPUs Are Paired With Older Processors; Investigation Has Been Started Sarfraz Khan • Apr 18, 2025 at 04:14pm EDT Intel has finally taken the performance loss issue seriously with the Arc GPUs and has started its investigation to find out and fix the problem with older CPUs. Intel Responds to the Arc GPU Performance Issue with Older Ryzen and Intel Core Processors The Intel Arc B580 and B570 GPUs looked decent on the launch but weren't seen on the charts even after offering more VRAM than their competitors. Nonetheless, one of the reasons why many didn't settle with the Battlemage GPUs is lackluster optimizations. Here, we aren't talking exclusively about the Intel GPU drivers but about an issue that kept the Arc Battlemage GPUs behind their rivals. If you remember, Hardware Unboxed was among the first ones to point out the lackluster performance of Arc B580 when paired with older processors such as Ryzen 2000 and Intel Core processors from the 9th gen. It has been a while since it has been even addressed or acknowledged by Intel. Finally, Intel took its time and responded on the forums. Here is the full message Intel released: Thank you for your patience. We are aware of reports of performance sensitivity in some games when paired with older generation processors. We have increased our platform coverage to include more configurations in our validation process, and we are continuing to investigate optimizations. From the statement, it looks as if Intel knew it but didn't take its time for optimize the performance. Intel says that it will expand the optimizations to more configurations and one should expect this issue to be resolved in the near future. However, it didn't explicity state any time frame as to when one can expect the new update. Intel will have to make updates on the driver side as its hardware is already on par with its rivals from the previous gen in the latest titles. We didn't see any performance throttle on the Arc B580 or B570 with the latest Intel and AMD CPUs and seeing lackluster performance with Intel's own previous-gen CPUs was indeed surprising. Hopefully, with the new patches, Intel will be able to compete with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs but this won't necessarily mean that Intel will start to gain any traction in the GPU market. Intel Arc Battlemage GPUs are mostly absent from the market and its poor availability has resulted in its exit from the current GPU competition in the budget segment. News Source: Intel Subscribe to get an everyday digest of the latest technology news in your inbox Follow us on Topics Sections Company Some posts on wccftech.com may contain affiliate links. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com © 2025 WCCF TECH INC. 700 - 401 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada