Intel Graphics Preview Release v1.0.0
This release provides an early preview of kernel and userspace support for new Intel GPUs, namely Lunar Lake and Battlemage, in addition to the available support in the Ubuntu 24.10 base image. This preview provides additional capabilities and newer versions of some components. This repository is a preview that does not come with the same guarantees as the Ubuntu archives, is intended for testing and validation purposes only, and is not recommended for use in production environments.
Features enabled by this preview include:
- Performance optimizations, updates, and bugfixes
- Introduction of the new CCS optimization in compute-runtime
- Enable debugging support for Intel Xe GPUs
- Full Battlemage support with hardware encode for AVC, JPEG, HEVC, and AV1
- oneAPI Level Zero Ray Tracing improves AI/ML workload speeds via Embree on SYCL
- Improved GPU + CPU ray tracing rendering performance in applications with Intel Embree support, such as Blender (v4.2+). Ray tracing hardware acceleration on the GPU gives 2x to 4x speedup for the ray tracing component of rendering and 20% to 30% improvement on the entire frame rendering.
Refer to the README for instructions on how to install the latest release of the preview.
| Component | Package Name | Ubuntu 24.10 Base Image | PPA Version | Upstream Repo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux kernel | linux-intel | 6.11.0-9-generic | 6.11.0-1005-intel | Link |
| Intel® Graphics Compute Runtime for oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL™ Driver | intel-compute-runtime | 24.35.30872.24 | 24.45.31740.14 | Link |
| Intel® Graphics Compiler for OpenCL™ | intel-graphics-compiler | 1.0.17537.20 | 2.1.14-1062~24.10 | Link |
| oneAPI Level Zero Ray Tracing Support | intel-level-zero-gpu-raytracing | - | 1.0.0 | Link |
| Media | ||||
| Intel® Media Driver Non-Free | intel-media-driver-non-free | 24.3.4 | 24.4.3 | Link |
| Intel® Media Driver | intel-media-driver | 24.3.4 | 24.4.3 | Link |
| Intel® VPL GPU Runtime | onevpl-intel-gpu | 24.3.4 | 24.4.3 | Link |
| Data Center | ||||
| Intel® Graphics System Controller Firmware Update Library (IGSC FU) | igsc | - | 0.9.4 | Link |
| Intel® ME TEE Library | metee | - | 4.2.1 | Link |
| Intel® XPU Manager | xpumanager | - | 1.2.39 | Link |
| Intel® Metrics Discovery Application Programming Interface | metrics-discovery | - | 1.13.178 | Link |
| Intel® Metrics Library for MDAPI | metrics-library | - | 1.0.178 | Link |