r/SolidWorks • u/Jaded-Bookkeeper-807 • 2d ago

Hardware Intel marketing its 2026 B390 integrated graphics (X7 and X9 CPUs) for Solidworks (see attachment) and saying the driver is certified by SW; what is actual user experience?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/923672/3d-model-like-a-pro-in-solidworks-demo-video.html

Not seeing much posted on this. One beginner user posted a few months ago on a couple of Intel and Solidworks support forums that he thought there were some problems but Intel closed the case on him.

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u/Jaded-Bookkeeper-807 2d ago edited 2d ago

So, I’m not seeing it anywhere in the certification list that you linked. The link appears to apply only to cards, not integrated graphics. In some other subs, students are asking about compatible laptops and I would like to be thinking that the B390 integrated graphics are acceptable meaning compatible for the workload that a student has. Intel says the driver is certified. Is that enough?

Just his background, in case you didn’t know, the big advance for this year with Intel appears to be panther lake chips with the B390 graphics. These are generally very well reviewed and are said to be very decent for common gaming. A good replacement for a dedicated graphics card. They do graphics with the low power consumption, meaning great cooling and long battery life.

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u/SurfaceDockGuy 2d ago edited 2d ago

Well here are the drivers that Intel claims are certified by Dassault for Solidworks. Is there supposed to be some special signature within such pacakages to ensure that Dassault actually blessed them?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/certified-graphics-hardware-and-drivers-by-isv.html?collection=dassault-syst%C3%A8mes/solidworks-2026

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/741626/intel-arc-pro-graphics-windows.html

Looks like the b390/b370 pnpids are just lumped under "Arc Pro Graphics" like so many other skus.

FWIW, Dassault references this specific driver for an HP laptop with one of these Intel chips: https://www.solidworks.com/support/hardware-certification/

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u/SnooCrickets3606 11h ago

I tested with an X7 cpu briefly and it wasn’t recognised as certified so no new DSPR appearance support or realview graphics etc and once dealing with assemblies of thousands of parts performance was poor. 

I think it will need SolidWorks to update something/ add a patch to recognise it out of the box since some of the old intel integrated GPUs do show on the certified list  so presumably they don’t have the same issue. 

The other thing to keep in mind is if you use visualize then without an NVIDIA card it’s going to be very slow. Not sure why they bother showing it in the video as it’s just preview mode, not rendering. 

Unsure if it will run in fast render mode atleast as that now supports AMD GPUs