Intel Graphics Driver 30.0.100.9684 Released (Vulkan 1.2.177, Windows 11)

 

A new graphics driver has been published by Intel for its GPUs (Intel 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th Gen and Iris Xe Dedicated (DG1) processors) on Windows 10 and Windows 11 (October 2021 Update (21H2)). This new driver (version 30.0.100.9684) brings the following changes:

HIGHLIGHTS:
– Windows 11 Support

GAMING HIGHLIGHTS:
– Support for F1 2021
– Optimizations to reduce load times and stuttering in Moonlight Blade*(DX12) and Call of Duty: Warzone (DX12).
– Support for Windows 11 Microsoft Auto HDR feature on 10th Gen Intel Core processors with Iris Plus Graphics or higher

DEVELOPER HIGHLIGHTS
– This driver is WDDM 3.0 compliant.
– DirectX12 Shader Model 6.6 compiler support
– Support for DirectML enhancements and optimizations
– Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Driver Update

KEY ISSUES FIXED:
– Intel Iris Xe MAX graphics: Minor graphic anomalies seen in Fortnite, Balan: Wonderworld.
– Intel Iris Xe MAX graphics: Intermittent crash or hang seen in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla* (DX12), Marvel’s Avengers (DX12).
– Blank Display observed with 5120×2160 resolution at 50Hz setting.
– Intermittent crash or hang seen in Shadowman Remastered (Vulkan), Dark Souls III, Gangstar New Orleans, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Vulkan), World of Tanks (DX12).
– Minor graphic anomalies seen in Dirt 5* (DX12), Watch Dogs: Legion* (DX12), Control* (DX12), Far Cry: New Dawn (when starting from a saved file), 3DMark: FireStrike.
– HDMI 2.0 monitor cannot light up after resume from sleep or standby.
– Display abnormal when 4K monitor connected and switched to duplicate displays.
– Visual anomalies seen on internal panel during .wmv movie playback in Movies & TV app under high CPU usage on 11th Generation Intel Core H-Series mobile Processors.

 

Downloads

• Latest Intel driver for win10/win11 64-bit @ Geeks3D
• v9684 win10/win11 64-bit @ Intel

 

v27.20.100.9466

Quick test of this driver on an Intel Core i5-11600K (with an UHD Graphics 750 GPU):

– GL-Z:

 

OpenGL support

v30.0.100.9684

This driver exposes OpenGL 4.6 with 263 OpenGL extensions (UHD Graphics 750) or 261 extensions (UHD Graphics 630). Same support than previous driver (v9466).

- GL_VENDOR: Intel
- GL_RENDERER: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 750
- GL_VERSION: 4.6.0 - Build 30.0.100.9684
- GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 4.60 - Build 30.0.100.9684
- OpenGL Extensions: 263 extensions (GL=241 and WGL=22)

 

Vulkan support

v30.0.100.9684

This driver exposes Vulkan 1.2.177. Compared to v9466, this driver adds 5 new device extensions for the UHD 750 GPU:

– VK_KHR_synchronization2
– VK_EXT_4444_formats
– VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state
– VK_KHR_copy_commands2
– VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory

- [Vulkan device 0]: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 750 
    - API version: 1.2.177
    - vendorID: 32902
    - deviceID: 19594
    - driver version: 1648084
    - driver properties (VK_KHR_driver_properties):
      -> driver name: Intel Corporation
      -> driver ID: VK_DRIVER_ID_INTEL_PROPRIETARY_WINDOWS_KHR (5)
      -> driver conformance version: 1.2.2.3:
      -> driver info: Intel driver

  - memory heap count: 1
    - heap1: 8074MB

  - memory type count: 3
    - mem type 0 - heap index : 0 - property flag : 1
      > mem property: VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_DEVICE_LOCAL_BIT
    - mem type 1 - heap index : 0 - property flag : 7
      > mem property: VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_DEVICE_LOCAL_BIT
      > mem property: VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_HOST_VISIBLE_BIT
      > mem property: VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_HOST_COHERENT_BIT
    - mem type 2 - heap index : 0 - property flag : 15
      > mem property: VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_DEVICE_LOCAL_BIT
      > mem property: VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_HOST_VISIBLE_BIT
      > mem property: VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_HOST_COHERENT_BIT
      > mem property: VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_HOST_CACHED_BIT

  - extensions: 90
    - VK_EXT_full_screen_exclusive (version: 4)
    - VK_KHR_swapchain (version: 70)
    - VK_KHR_external_memory (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_external_memory_win32 (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_external_memory_host (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_external_semaphore (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_external_semaphore_win32 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_external_fence (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_external_fence_win32 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore (version: 2)
    - VK_KHR_win32_keyed_mutex (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_get_memory_requirements2 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_bind_memory2 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_dedicated_allocation (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge (version: 3)
    - VK_KHR_maintenance1 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_maintenance2 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_maintenance3 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_synchronization2 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_shader_draw_parameters (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_push_descriptor (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_descriptor_update_template (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_multiview (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_shader_float_controls (version: 4)
    - VK_KHR_16bit_storage (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_8bit_storage (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_ballot (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_vote (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_storage_buffer_storage_class (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_variable_pointers (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_relaxed_block_layout (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_sampler_filter_minmax (version: 2)
    - VK_KHR_device_group (version: 4)
    - VK_EXT_4444_formats (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_post_depth_coverage (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_shader_stencil_export (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_conservative_rasterization (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_sample_locations (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_image_format_list (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor (version: 3)
    - VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing (version: 2)
    - VK_EXT_inline_uniform_block (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_create_renderpass2 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_swapchain_mutable_format (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_driver_properties (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model (version: 3)
    - VK_EXT_conditional_rendering (version: 2)
    - VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_imageless_framebuffer (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_buffer_device_address (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_buffer_device_address (version: 2)
    - VK_EXT_host_query_reset (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_performance_query (version: 1)
    - VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints (version: 2)
    - VK_KHR_separate_depth_stencil_layouts (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_shader_clock (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_spirv_1_4 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_separate_stencil_usage (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_index_type_uint8 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_extended_types (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_line_rasterization (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_memory_budget (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment (version: 1)
    - VK_INTEL_performance_query (version: 2)
    - VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control (version: 2)
    - VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_feedback (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_cache_control (version: 3)
    - VK_KHR_pipeline_executable_properties (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_transform_feedback (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state (version: 2)
    - VK_EXT_custom_border_color (version: 12)
    - VK_EXT_robustness2 (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_image_robustness (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_calibrated_timestamps (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_shader_terminate_invocation (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_copy_commands2 (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_shader_non_semantic_info (version: 1)
    - VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory (version: 1)
    - VK_EXT_global_priority (version: 2)

  - device layers: 0

  - device features:
    - robustBufferAccess: true
    - fullDrawIndexUint32: true
    - imageCubeArray: true
    - independentBlend: true
    - geometryShader: true
    - tessellationShader: true
    - sampleRateShading: true
    - dualSrcBlend: true
    - logicOp: true
    - multiDrawIndirect: true
    - drawIndirectFirstInstance: true
    - depthClamp: true
    - depthBiasClamp: true
    - fillModeNonSolid: true
    - depthBounds: true
    - wideLines: true
    - largePoints: true
    - alphaToOne: true
    - multiViewport: true
    - samplerAnisotropy: true
    - textureCompressionETC2: true
    - textureCompressionASTC_LDR: true
    - textureCompressionBC: true
    - occlusionQueryPrecise: true
    - pipelineStatisticsQuery: true
    - vertexPipelineStoresAndAtomics: true
    - fragmentStoresAndAtomics: true
    - shaderTessellationAndGeometryPointSize: true
    - shaderImageGatherExtended: true
    - shaderStorageImageExtendedFormats: true
    - shaderStorageImageMultisample: true
    - shaderStorageImageReadWithoutFormat: false
    - shaderStorageImageWriteWithoutFormat: true
    - shaderUniformBufferArrayDynamicIndexing: true
    - shaderSampledImageArrayDynamicIndexing: true
    - shaderStorageBufferArrayDynamicIndexing: true
    - shaderStorageImageArrayDynamicIndexing: true
    - shaderClipDistance: true
    - shaderCullDistance: true
    - shaderFloat64: false
    - shaderInt64: false
    - shaderInt16: true
    - shaderResourceResidency: true
    - shaderResourceMinLod: false
    - sparseBinding: true
    - sparseResidencyBuffer: true
    - sparseResidencyImage2D: true
    - sparseResidencyImage3D: true
    - sparseResidency2Samples: true
    - sparseResidency4Samples: true
    - sparseResidency8Samples: true
    - sparseResidency16Samples: true
    - sparseResidencyAliased: true
    - variableMultisampleRate: true
    - inheritedQueries: true

  - device limits
    - maxImageDimension1D: 16384
    - maxImageDimension2D: 16384
    - maxImageDimension3D: 2048
    - maxImageDimensionCube: 16384
    - maxImageArrayLayers: 2048
    - maxTexelBufferElements: 134217728
    - maxUniformBufferRange: 4294967295
    - maxStorageBufferRange: 4294967295
    - maxPushConstantsSize: 256
    - maxMemoryAllocationCount: 2099929
    - maxSamplerAllocationCount: 4000
    - bufferImageGranularity: 1
    - sparseAddressSpaceSize: 17523466567680
    - maxBoundDescriptorSets: 8
    - maxPerStageDescriptorSamplers: 64
    - maxPerStageDescriptorUniformBuffers: 200
    - maxPerStageDescriptorSampledImages: 200
    - maxPerStageDescriptorStorageImages: 16
    - maxPerStageDescriptorInputAttachments: 7
    - maxPerStageResources: 200
    - maxDescriptorSetSamplers: 576
    - maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffers: 1800
    - maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffersDynamic: 16
    - maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffers: 1800
    - maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffersDynamic: 16
    - maxDescriptorSetSampledImages: 1800
    - maxDescriptorSetStorageImages: 144
    - maxDescriptorSetInputAttachments: 7
    - maxVertexInputAttributes: 32
    - maxVertexInputBindings: 32
    - maxVertexInputAttributeOffset: 2047
    - maxVertexInputBindingStride: 4095
    - maxVertexOutputComponents: 128
    - maxTessellationGenerationLevel: 64
    - maxTessellationPatchSize: 32
    - maxTessellationControlPerVertexInputComponents: 128
    - maxTessellationControlPerVertexOutputComponents: 128
    - maxTessellationControlPerPatchOutputComponents: 120
    - maxTessellationControlTotalOutputComponents: 4096
    - maxTessellationEvaluationInputComponents: 128
    - maxTessellationEvaluationOutputComponents: 128
    - maxGeometryShaderInvocations: 32
    - maxGeometryInputComponents: 128
    - maxGeometryOutputComponents: 128
    - maxGeometryOutputVertices: 256
    - maxGeometryTotalOutputComponents: 1024
    - maxFragmentInputComponents: 128
    - maxFragmentOutputAttachments: 8
    - maxFragmentDualSrcAttachments: 1
    - maxFragmentCombinedOutputResources: 16
    - maxComputeSharedMemorySize: 32768
    - maxComputeWorkGroupCount: [65536; 65536; 65536]
    - maxComputeWorkGroupInvocations: 1024
    - maxComputeWorkGroupSize: [1024; 1024; 64]
    - subPixelPrecisionBits: 8
    - subTexelPrecisionBits: 8
    - mipmapPrecisionBits: 8
    - maxDrawIndexedIndexValue: 4294967295
    - maxDrawIndirectCount: 4294967295
    - maxSamplerLodBias: 16.000000
    - maxSamplerAnisotropy: 16.000000
    - maxViewports: 16
    - maxViewportDimensions: [32768; 32768]
    - viewportBoundsRange: [-65536.000000 ; 65535.000000]
    - viewportSubPixelBits: 8
    - minMemoryMapAlignment: 64
    - minTexelBufferOffsetAlignment: 64
    - minUniformBufferOffsetAlignment: 64
    - minStorageBufferOffsetAlignment: 64
    - minTexelOffset: 4294967288
    - maxTexelOffset: 7
    - minTexelGatherOffset: 4294967264
    - maxTexelGatherOffset: 31
    - minInterpolationOffset: -0.500000
    - maxInterpolationOffset: 0.437500
    - subPixelInterpolationOffsetBits: 4
    - maxFramebufferWidth: 16384
    - maxFramebufferHeight: 16384
    - maxFramebufferLayers: 2048
    - framebufferColorSampleCounts: 31
    - framebufferDepthSampleCounts: 31
    - framebufferStencilSampleCounts: 31
    - framebufferNoAttachmentsSampleCounts: 31
    - maxColorAttachments: 8
    - sampledImageColorSampleCounts: 31
    - sampledImageIntegerSampleCounts: 31
    - sampledImageDepthSampleCounts: 31
    - sampledImageStencilSampleCounts: 31
    - storageImageSampleCounts: 31
    - maxSampleMaskWords: 1
    - timestampComputeAndGraphics: 1
    - timestampPeriod: 83.333336
    - maxClipDistances: 8
    - maxCullDistances: 8
    - maxCombinedClipAndCullDistances: 8
    - discreteQueuePriorities: 2
    - pointSizeRange: [0.125000 ; 255.875000]
    - lineWidthRange: [0.000000 ; 7.992188]
    - pointSizeGranularity: 0.125000
    - lineWidthGranularity: 0.007812
    - strictLines: 0
    - standardSampleLocations: 1
    - optimalBufferCopyOffsetAlignment: 64
    - optimalBufferCopyRowPitchAlignment: 64
    - nonCoherentAtomSize: 1

 

OpenCL support

v30.0.100.9684

This driver exposes OpenCL 3.0 with 55 device extensions (for the UHD Graphics 750).

- Num OpenCL platforms: 1
- CL_PLATFORM_NAME: Intel(R) OpenCL HD Graphics
- CL_PLATFORM_VENDOR: Intel(R) Corporation
- CL_PLATFORM_VERSION: OpenCL 3.0 
- CL_PLATFORM_PROFILE: FULL_PROFILE

- Num devices: 1
  - CL_DEVICE_NAME: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 750
  - CL_DEVICE_VENDOR: Intel(R) Corporation
  - CL_DRIVER_VERSION: 30.0.100.9684
  - CL_DEVICE_PROFILE: FULL_PROFILE
  - CL_DEVICE_VERSION: OpenCL 3.0 NEO 
  - CL_DEVICE_TYPE: GPU
  - CL_DEVICE_VENDOR_ID: 0x8086
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_COMPUTE_UNITS: 32
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_CLOCK_FREQUENCY: 1300MHz
  - CL_DEVICE_ADDRESS_BITS: 32
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE: 838860KB
  - CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE: 1638MB
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_PARAMETER_SIZE: 2048
  - CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_CACHELINE_SIZE: 64 Bytes
  - CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_CACHE_SIZE: 512KB
  - CL_DEVICE_ERROR_CORRECTION_SUPPORT: NO
  - CL_DEVICE_LOCAL_MEM_TYPE: Local (scratchpad)
  - CL_DEVICE_LOCAL_MEM_SIZE: 64KB
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_CONSTANT_BUFFER_SIZE: 838860KB
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_WORK_ITEM_DIMENSIONS: 3
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_WORK_ITEM_SIZES: [256 ; 256 ; 256]
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZE: 256
  - CL_EXEC_NATIVE_KERNEL: 9741036
  - CL_DEVICE_IMAGE_SUPPORT: YES
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_READ_IMAGE_ARGS: 128
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_WRITE_IMAGE_ARGS: 128
  - CL_DEVICE_IMAGE2D_MAX_WIDTH: 16384
  - CL_DEVICE_IMAGE2D_MAX_HEIGHT: 16384
  - CL_DEVICE_IMAGE3D_MAX_WIDTH: 2048
  - CL_DEVICE_IMAGE3D_MAX_HEIGHT: 2048
  - CL_DEVICE_IMAGE3D_MAX_DEPTH: 2048
  - CL_DEVICE_MAX_SAMPLERS: 16
  - CL_DEVICE_PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_CHAR: 16
  - CL_DEVICE_PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_SHORT: 8
  - CL_DEVICE_PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_INT: 4
  - CL_DEVICE_PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_LONG: 1
  - CL_DEVICE_PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_FLOAT: 1
  - CL_DEVICE_PREFERRED_VECTOR_WIDTH_DOUBLE: 1

  - CL_DEVICE_EXTENSIONS: 55
  - Extensions:
    - cl_khr_byte_addressable_store
    - cl_khr_fp16
    - cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics
    - cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics
    - cl_khr_icd
    - cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics
    - cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics
    - cl_intel_command_queue_families
    - cl_intel_subgroups
    - cl_intel_required_subgroup_size
    - cl_intel_subgroups_short
    - cl_khr_spir
    - cl_intel_accelerator
    - cl_intel_driver_diagnostics
    - cl_khr_priority_hints
    - cl_khr_throttle_hints
    - cl_khr_create_command_queue
    - cl_intel_subgroups_char
    - cl_intel_subgroups_long
    - cl_khr_il_program
    - cl_intel_mem_force_host_memory
    - cl_khr_subgroup_extended_types
    - cl_khr_subgroup_non_uniform_vote
    - cl_khr_subgroup_ballot
    - cl_khr_subgroup_non_uniform_arithmetic
    - cl_khr_subgroup_shuffle
    - cl_khr_subgroup_shuffle_relative
    - cl_khr_subgroup_clustered_reduce
    - cl_intel_device_attribute_query
    - cl_intel_spirv_media_block_io
    - cl_intel_spirv_subgroups
    - cl_khr_spirv_no_integer_wrap_decoration
    - cl_intel_unified_shared_memory_preview
    - cl_khr_mipmap_image
    - cl_khr_mipmap_image_writes
    - cl_intel_planar_yuv
    - cl_intel_packed_yuv
    - cl_khr_int64_base_atomics
    - cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics
    - cl_khr_image2d_from_buffer
    - cl_khr_depth_images
    - cl_khr_3d_image_writes
    - cl_intel_media_block_io
    - cl_khr_gl_sharing
    - cl_khr_gl_depth_images
    - cl_khr_gl_event
    - cl_khr_gl_msaa_sharing
    - cl_intel_dx9_media_sharing
    - cl_khr_dx9_media_sharing
    - cl_khr_d3d10_sharing
    - cl_khr_d3d11_sharing
    - cl_intel_d3d11_nv12_media_sharing
    - cl_intel_sharing_format_query
    - cl_intel_subgroup_local_block_io
    - cl_intel_simultaneous_sharing