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According to Intel documentation, this processor has an Intel® Arc™ graphics GPU. Intel seems to indicate that Arc graphics is able to render cycles. However so far I have not been able to get any GPU acceleration.

My system is an ASUS Zenbook 14 UX3405MA with 16G of RAM and an Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 155H processor. It is a dual boot Windoes 11/ Kubuntu 24.04 system. I have tried installing Intel driver for both Windows and Ubuntu. It seems that ubuntu 24.04 is not supported by Intel (yet?) but also on windows I cannot get HW acceleration to work in blender.

Is there something I am missing or is my system simply not capable enough?

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As explained on GPU Rendering - Blender 4.3 Manual

Hardware acceleration via Intel's oneAPI requires:

a Intel® Arc™ graphics card with the Xe HPG architecture

Which can be found only on discrete (dedicated) GPUs from the Intel Arc A-Series. Your Intel Ultra 7 155H have an Arc Xe-LPG 128EU integrated graphics. It's simply not part of the supported hardware.

Moreover, for anyone who does have the supported hardware, you still need specific minimum driver versions (and for linux, it seems, a specific type of drivers?):

Minimum driver versions:

  • Windows: Intel Graphics Driver XX.X.101.5518

  • Linux: intel-level-zero-gpu package 1.3.27642, typically available through the intel-compute-runtime package XX.XX.27642.38


More about the Xe-LPG / Xe-HPG / Arc-A architecture differences

As explained on Intel Xe - Wikiwand:

The Xe-LPG architecture is a low power variant of Xe-HPG designed for the tile-based iGPUs (tGPUs) [...]. It is based on the same Arc Alchemist graphics (Gen 12.7) used by Intel's Arc A-series graphics cards but is optimized for operation with lower wattage and higher performance per watt.

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Xe-HPG is the enthusiast or high performance graphics variant of the Xe architecture. The microarchitecture is based on Xe-LP with improvements from Xe-HP and Xe-HPC. [...]

And on Intel Arc - Wikiwand:

Intel Arc GPUs (codenamed "Alchemist" [and giving the A-Series]) [...] uses the Intel Xe GPU architecture, or more specifically, the Xe-HPG variant.

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