Now that Intel is shipping the ARC 370M GPU on some new laptops, I'm curious if anyone has tried them with Vegas 19 or 20 to see if it is supported at all? I would guess it might and just show up like an integrated Xe chipset GPU in Vegas but not sure. If anyone has tried it, I'd love to hear your results! Thanks.
It should be compatible as long as no driver problems. Vegas has been advertising Intel deep link technology for a long time.
Deep Link includes:
We know 'Additive AI' is working on Vegas(at least the CPU/IGPU side) , and hyper encode only works with discreet Intel GPU's matched with a 11th/12th gen Intel CPU with Intel iris graphics, so it has to run Intel GPU's
It is working with Premiere and Resolve. Performance is said to be rtx3050ti level. I'd wait for a review by someone using it with Vegas
I contacted Vegas support and they basically said they had no idea as they hadn't tried it. So I just went and bought a laptop to try it out. Both the Xe and Arc GPUs show up but selecting Arc results in the preview window just being black. Played around with different settings but nothing seemed to work - either unstable or instant crashes. Will play around some more with driver updates and see how it shakes out. I did get it to work at one point, using Legacy GPU decoding but it was slower than the Xe GPU. Will update this when I get a sense of what's what. This was with Vegas 19 on Windows 11.
If you can get it to stably work please consider trying a benchmark and uploading results so we can compare it: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Exbi4K3hbxw6snJuisR1ble-0tCPVNcIcNnx0BAtSIM/
Will do!
Will play around some more with driver updates and see how it shakes out
It sounds like you have tried the latest driver and beta driver https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/228342/intel-arc-a370m-graphics/downloads.html
For the GPU decoder do you have a choice of both intel decoders? if so try both
It's running the latest driver. Yes both the Xe (CPU) and Arc options show up in Vegas. Set to Xe everything works as it should. I did manage to get it to work when set to Arc, but was barely getting 9fps vs 23.98 with the Xe, and it's wildly unstable.
I've followed the Intel GPU reviews over at 
. The drivers reported are not quite ready for prime time usage at the moment.
His reviews are interesting from a gaming perspective. For video editing, frame rates and rebar suggest the a380 is probably not the best choice to plug your monitor into. Low dx9 and dx11 performance suggests Windows won't like it much for gpu scheduling. No info in those reviews highly relevant Vegas: OpenCL, encoding, and decoding performance.
@Howard-Vigorita, yes, I agree. But the driver issues are there. Most people have their computers doing more than just editing. I'd wait a bit and see where things go. Maybe Techgage will get one and test it with Vegas.
Not sure the Gunnir a380 that's been reviewed is even the same inside as the a380m. I suspect the mobile version is just the Xe Max re-branded. As I recall in posts here by the few folks that tried one of those laptops, it also showed up in Vegas as a separate igpu in addition to the Xe. Don't know if there were separate drivers for each. I'm guessing you have to use what the laptop manufacturer supplies rather than an Intel generic display driver.
You might be right. Just a rename?