I’m considering building a new machine soon and was looking at the Intel Arc GPUs as a possibility. Anyone have experience using them in their system? I’m on Arch btw

  • mondoman712@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I have an a770. The only issue that I’ve had with what little gaming I do, is that CS2 ran pretty terribly, although I tried again last night and it seemed much better.

    • Rand0mA@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Intel have just released a driver update to combat this. Its somethimg to do with a transition layer implemetation that has been massively improved giving 500%+ performance boost.

      • moody@lemmings.world
        13·
        8 months ago

        500%+ performance boost

        To one game. Most others tested have seen a 5-15% increase in performance, and a couple have had 50% increases.

    • Kaidao@lemmy.ml
      OP
      2·
      8 months ago

      Appreciate it. It sounds like with the new announcement they’re putting quite a bit of support behind it so I’m optimistic improvements are made quickly

  • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    As a general rule for new hardware from Linux friendly companies, you’re pretty much in the best possible position already by using a rolling release distribution. It’s the same with AMD where reports of bugs from 6 months ago are basically ancient past by now.

  • cujo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Glad I’m not the only one with this question. Feels like it’s difficult to find up-to-date information on the performance of these Arc cards on Linux; I’d like to support Intel’s move into this space but it’s hard without knowing how drastically it’s going to affect my gaming performance. 😅

    I’m glad to hear the situation seems to be rapidly improving. I may pick up an A770 yet.

  • aksdb@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    I would love to upgrade to one, but from tests I gathered that they have an exceedingly bad idle power draw. Given that the card would idle most of the time, I don’t really want to waste power on it if nvidia and amd manage to stay far lower.

  • Quack Doc@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Intel A350, can’t say I have many complaints now. a lot of the issues have been ironed out. I’m not sure if the sparse work has landed for i915 yet, but once it does I don’t think I will have too many super major issues left. Im getting some artifacts when using gamescope, but that’s not a major issue for me since I don’t really need gamescope

  • cujo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    UPDATE: I picked up the ARC A750. Been driving it around for awhile. Older DirectX games perform on par or often even better on Linux with ARC than they do on Windows. DX12 games had negligible performance boosts being run on Windows vs. Linux with ARC save some big exceptions…

    Certain DX12 titles, one of which I own (Halo Infinite) WILL NOT RUN under Linux WITH the ARC card due to a lack of features in Vulkan. There are still some DX12 calls that have no equivalents in Vulkan, and while some games flag this feature set without using it and MAY be able to be tricked into running without it, any games that actually USE those features will not run under Linux with the ARC card, period. So… Research your newer AAA DX12 titles first.