Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 10 June 2026 at 10:46 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 2 Comments.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Face Detection FP16-INT8, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Throughput. v7.0 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Face Detection FP16-INT8, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Latency. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Age Gender Recognition Retail 0013 FP16-INT8, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Throughput. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Age Gender Recognition Retail 0013 FP16-INT8, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Latency. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Person Detection FP16, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Throughput. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Person Detection FP16, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Latency. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Weld Porosity Detection FP16-INT8, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Throughput. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Vehicle Detection FP16-INT8, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Throughput. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Machine Translation EN To DE FP16, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Throughput. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Machine Translation EN To DE FP16, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Latency. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Face Detection Retail FP16-INT8, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Latency. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Handwritten English Recognition FP16-INT8, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Throughput. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO benchmark with settings of Model: Person Re-Identification Retail FP16, Device: GPU, Benchmark Mode: Throughput. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.

While Linux 7.1 was racking up many wins over Linux 7.0, with the OpenVINO AI toolkit and using Intel's GPU back-end thre was minimal benefit from the new kernel version. Very slight gains if anything out of using Linux 7.1 for the Arc Pro B70 with OpenVINO 2026.

OpenVINO GenAI benchmark with settings of Model: TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0, Device: GPU. v7.0 was the fastest.
OpenVINO GenAI benchmark with settings of Model: granite-3.0-8b-instruct, Device: GPU. v7.0 was the fastest.
OpenVINO GenAI benchmark with settings of Model: Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct, Device: GPU. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
OpenVINO GenAI benchmark with settings of Model: Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct, Device: GPU. v7.0 was the fastest.
OpenVINO GenAI benchmark with settings of Model: Qwen3-8B, Device: GPU. v7.0 was the fastest.

In the case of OpenVINO GenAI was one of the only workloads where the performance consistently regressed on Linux 7.1.

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