Intel graphics drivers for MS Windows

Basic info about the Intel Broadwater core

Every Intel graphics card is built on a core, in this case Broadwater. To know at least a bit of context, we offer you some technical information about this core. His abilities will certainly tell the year of release (2006) and the production process (90 nm). Here, of course, the latest kernel has the current release year and is manufactured with as little manufacturing process as possible. For gamers, it is still very important to support the highest version of DirectX and OpenGl.
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    The Intel Broadwater core, known as BWG for short, was introduced in 2006 as the 4 generation. Offers advanced 90 nm manufacturing process, DirectX 9.0c and OpenGl 2.0 support.


    Intel's Broadwater GPU uses the Generation 4.0 architecture and is made using a 90 nm production process at Intel. Broadwater supports DirectX 9.0c. It features 8 pixel shaders and 1 vertex shaders, 8 texture mapping units and 4 ROPs. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support). The 946GZ, Q963 and Q965 chipsets use the GMA 3000 graphics core.



    Below you will find links to the appropriate drivers for the Broadwater core.


Intel Graphics card name PCI ID device Core Download drivers
Intel 946GZ Express Chipset Family PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2972 Broadwater
Intel 946GZ Express Chipset Family PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2973 Broadwater
Intel G965 Express Chipset Family PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2982 Broadwater
Intel G965 Express Chipset Family PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2983 Broadwater
Intel G965 Express Chipset Family PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_29A2 Broadwater
Intel G965 Express Chipset Family PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_29A3 Broadwater
Intel Q965/Q963 Express Chipset Family PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2992 Broadwater
Intel Q965/Q963 Express Chipset Family PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2993 Broadwater

Latest Windows 10 64bit drivers

Version Date DNL
31.0.101.5379 2024-03-19 351×
31.0.101.5333 2024-02-24 1792×
31.0.101.5330 2024-02-15 930×
31.0.101.5194 2024-02-07 816×
31.0.101.5186 2024-01-23 93×

Latest Intel PDF datasheets

PDF Datasheet Date DNL
30.0.101.1069 2021-11-11
30.0.100.9928 2021-11-04
30.0.100.9955 2021-10-14
30.0.100.9894 2021-09-14
30.0.100.9864 2021-09-08

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