Intel Arc GPU performance momentum continues — 2.7X boost in AI-driven Stable Diffusion, largely thanks to Microsoft’s Olive

Intel’s latest Arc Alchemist drivers feature a performance boost of 2.7X in AI image generator Stable Diffusion. Although some of that boost was thanks to good old-fashioned optimization, which the Intel driver team is well known for, most of the uplift was thanks to Microsoft Olive. Microsoft’s machine learning optimization toolchain doubled Arc GPU performance in Stable Diffusion on its own, and it’s not even the first time we’ve seen it happen in GPU drivers.

Microsoft Olive is a piece of…