Intel’s Latest Drivers Let’s Users Allocate Up To 93% of System Memory To Arc iGPUs For Wider AI LLM Support

Intel now gives users the ability to allocate up to 93% of system memory to Arc iGPUs, enabling wider AI LLM support.

Trying To Run AI LLMs That Don't Fit On Your Arc iGPU? Intel Made It Possible By Allowing You To Dedicate Up To 93% System Memory In Its Latest Drivers

Intel has dropped a new HotFix driver for Arc Pro Graphics, 302.0.101.8517 - Q1.26 R2, which lets users allocate even more system memory to the GPU, ideal for running larger AI LLMs.

Previously, Intel's Drivers were able to allocate up to 87% of the system memory to the GPU; say you had 32 GB system memory, then you could allocate up to 28 GB of memory. With the newest drivers, you can now allocate up to 92% of the system memory. For a 32 GB memory configuration, that's 30 GB of VRAM allocated to the GPU.

The new driver is now available and works with Intel's Arc Pro iGPUs, such as the Arc Pro B390 and Arc Pro B370, and is also compatible with several Intel Arc Pro GPUs within the Battlemage and Alchemist line. Although there are no other changes mentioned in the driver release, Intel is working towards broader ISV certifications for its Arc Pro GPUs.

This is a higher memory allocation than AMD's Ryzen AI chips, which allow up to 87% memory allocation, which is still very useful for running bigger LLMs. On AI MAX+ platforms, you can allocate a massive 112 GB of memory to the GPU while running 128 GB of system memory.

Highlights of this Workstation Driver:

• Built-in Intel Arc Pro GPUs in select Intel Core Ultra Processors (series 3, 2 & 1) will support variable increased graphics memory allocations in Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11 host systems. For example, a 64 GB host system can have up to 93% or 59.5 GB (64x0.93=59.5) working memory dynamically allocated to the Built-In Intel Arc Pro GPU. 

OS Reference:

• Microsoft Windows 10-64 - October 2022 Update (22H2)
• Microsoft Windows 11*-64 - October 2021 Update (21H2)
• Microsoft Windows 11-64 - September 2022 Update (22H2)
• Microsoft Windows 11-64 - October 2023 Update (23H2)
• Microsoft Windows* 11-64 - October 2024 Update (24H2)
• Microsoft Windows* 11-64 - September 2025 Update (25H2)

Platform (OS Support)

• Intel Arc Graphics family (Codename Alchemist, Battlemage)
• Intel Core Ultra processor family (Codename Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake-S, Arrow Lake-H, Panther Lake)

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