Intel Compute Runtime 26.18.38308.1 Brings More Xe3P Enableement, Nova Lake P Support

Intel on Tuesday released a new version of their open-source Compute Runtime for OpenCL and Level Zero support across their integrated and discrete graphics hardware.

The new Intel Compute Runtime 26.18.38308.1 follows the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.34.4 release from earlier in the week. With this new Compute Runtime update Intel continues making a lot of software investments for their next-generation Xe3P hardware.

The Intel Compute Runtime continues seeing a lot of Xe3P enablement work for upcoming Nova Lake and the Crescent Island AI accelerator. A variety of both features and fixes were merged for Xe3P with this new Compute Runtime release. Among the work is also initial support for Nova Lake P.

Also new are additional performance optimizations like reducing the pool size to 2MB rather than 16MB due to now having a pool manager to dynamically grow as needed, reducing IOH alignment for discrete GPUs, and a variety of other small performance optimizations.

The Compute Runtime update also gets rid of deprecated DG1 device code, support for sRGB images in Level Zero, support for importing physical memory, support for printf() in indirect functions, an extension interface for reading the current usable memory, fixing GCC 16 compiler build issues, and official branding now for the Arc Pro B65 and Arc Pro B70 graphics hardware.

The open-source Intel Compute Runtime for Linux and Windows systems can be downloaded from GitHub.