Current state of Intel Arc graphics cards on Linux?

warmaster , 6 months ago

Performance is worse than alternatives, and there are some features that work on Windows but they have said they won’t support them on Linux. So, AMD is still unrivaled on Linux.

Redo11 , 7 months ago

friend has one, he’s happy with it. It has mesa drivers so it should work great

CalcProgrammer1 , 7 months ago

Performance is pretty good with my Arc A770 on Arch Linux. It’s had some growing pains but they’re pretty much all resolved now.

WheatleyInc OP , 7 months ago

Good to know it works well with Arch, since I’m going to be using Manjaro, which is Arch-based.

SigHunter , 7 months ago

With my 770, I mostly do desktop use and I play some Northgard, which works perfectly fine (1440p ultra settings)

kugmo , 7 months ago

You want to use the latest kernel and mesa versions (preferably git or release candidate versions). The new Xe kernel module allegedly doesn’t support hardware accelerated video decoding so you’ll need to stick with i915. If Intel’s new GPUs dont have the hardware acceleration issue it would be a no-brainer to buy once the performance issues are ironed out.

Quackdoc , 7 months ago

Ill say promising. Mesa recently landed sparse support so that should make a lot more games playable now, perf is decent but there are for sure still bugs, for instance for me and a couple others, gamescope doesn’t work right

grue , 7 months ago

Apparently they’re a really good choice for video encoding (e.g. if you’ve got a Jellyfin server or are a streamer or something) because of AV1 codec support. (I think that’s the important one, anyway.)

Lettuceeatlettuce , 7 months ago

I agree with cmnybo. If you like the long term prospects for the Intel discrete GPUs, grab one. But currently, drivers are still early in their development, so be ready to experience some growing pains.

cmnybo , 7 months ago

You can look at the Phoronix benchmarks results from earlier this month. While they are certainly usable, the performance is still quite a bit lower than mid range AMD and Nvidia cards in most games.