Add to "Support for new Intel® integrated and discrete GPUS"

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26.04 LTS

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Description

Add the following to the "Support for new Intel® integrated and discrete GPUS"

Added in version 25.10

This release brings full support for Intel® Core™ Ultra Xe3 integrated Intel® Arc™ graphics, and Intel® Arc™ Pro B50 and B60 “Battlemage” discrete GPUs. Further Intel® Graphics related features are now available by changes in various components:

• Via the Linux Kernel v6.17:

  • Initial support for Intel’s next-gen client platform codenamed Panther Lake
  • Enhanced IOMMU and PCIe subsystem for improved GPU virtualization and passthrough.
  • Improved multi-GPU configuration support for Intel hardware.

• Via Mesa 25.2.3:

  • VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 enabled in Intel ANV Vulkan driver for Battlemage and Panther Lake** (GFX125+).
  • Completed OpenCL 2.0 coarse grain buffer SVM support in Iris driver.
  • Improved color fast-clear handling and multi-engine surface usage for Intel Vulkan (ANV) driver.

• Via intel-media-driver 25.3.0:

  • Panther Lake Upstream decoding and VP9 encoding support

• Via intel-compute-runtime 25.31:

  • Enabling a Level Zero device unified shared memory (USM) pool as a performance change.
  • A performance-minded change for Xe2 graphics to ensure Level Zero events are always allocated in the local device memory.

• Via level-zero 1.24

• Update Level Zero Loader and Headers to support v1.13.1 of L0 Spec

• Via level-zero-raytracing 1.1.0:
  • Ray Tracing Acceleration Structure (RTAS) Extensions

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Title

Add to "Support for new Intel® integrated and discrete GPUS"

Major change

Yes

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