Intel's new configurable VRAM option gives Core laptops an AI boost

For many months, AMD offered a special treat to enthusiasts wishing to run AI chatbot LLMs on their PCs: configurable VRAM that significantly improved performance. Now Intel can say the same. Bob Duffy, who oversees Intel's AI Playground application for running AI art and local chatbots on your PC, tweeted that the company's latest Arc driver for its integrated GPUs now offers a "shared GPU memory override" that offers the ability to adjust your PC's VRAM, provided that you have a supported processor. This is a big deal for AI and even some games, though not an obvious one. If you owned an Intel Core laptop with 32GB of memory, 16GB of it would be assigned to AI and games.