Intel Graphics Preview Release v1.0.0

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