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How good/bad are the Linux drivers for Intel Arc GPUs right now? (pawb.social)

submitted 9 months ago by VinesNFluff@pawb.social to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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Title. Been meaning to upgrade my GPU, and Intel Arcs are undercutting their AMD equivalent by quite a bit?

But like, I am not going to switch back to Windows. And I don't want to spend a lot of money on a new computer part just to learn it doesn't support my OS properly.

Now. I did search for this and found a phoronix benchmark thing -- But it's from almost a full year ago.

So.

Anyone have an Intel Arc GPU and can tell how they are doing as of now?

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[–] toe@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Pretty good. I’ve got an a380 running in a media server that is just fkn amazing. And a 750 in my desktop.

I did VFIO on a nvidia 3070 and VMed Windows, but after a bit I just didn’t go in to windows and ran most games I play on the 750. Runs at 2560xwhatever the 16:9 other one is really well.

The games I’ve been playing are mostly CS2, BG3 - nothing super tough, but both >60fps, no issues. I haven’t done any benchmarking or equivs though. Otherwise other less graphically intensive games of course have no problems.

BG3 earlier had vulkan issues with some severe artifacting, but that was around launch.

These days, not even remotely a problem.

For the a380, I’m doing transcodes of some all x264 to AV1, and apart from some funkiness around the open intel-media-sdk vs closed, where the closed sdk spat out complete garbage. It handles the transcodes amazingly well for such a cheap little card.

I honestly never thought I’d say that Intel of all people could produce a GPU that was great.. but Arc really is great.

The two cards set me back about $350 all up and the grand joke is the 3070 is sitting there kinda doing nothing these days.

The desktop system is Arch linux and the media server is Proxmox with passthrough to debian.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What kernel version are you running?

[–] toe@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

6.7 on desktop 6.5 on server

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