Hey everyone,
Planning on buying a new gpu to use it on Linux since I’m tired of using Nvidia. I already tried to search for some benchmarks of Intel Arc on linux but they seem to be outdated.
Do you think it is worth to get a intel arc a770 or just go with AMD for mainly 1080p gaming? Or are the drivers for intel still too new and should wait for the next gen? :)
I’d recommend checking out the phoronix Intel forum. We could really use more competition in this space.
Looks like the drivers still need more development for the GPU be worth the money (at least for the a770) :(
This is good advice.
I haven’t been following progress on Xe/Arc linux drivers, but my impression from a few months ago was that they were still a bit rough for gaming. Maybe things are improving? Intel already has an open-source driver, so they seem well positioned to (eventually) compete in this space.
If build quality matters to you, this Gamers Nexus teardown might be worth a watch:
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You may as well. Proton on Steam is really effective and with GE I haven’t had a game be unplayable for a while. I don’t really care for modern loot box gambling simulator paid public alpha type games though, so YMMV.
Arc won’t have proper game support until it’s using the Xe driver (not until at least kernel 6.5) instead of i915. You can follow the progress of sparse rendering support for Xe here. Hardware AV1 encoding will not be supported with Xe, however.
If you want to stream your gaming (as long as it doesn’t require sparse rendering) and enjoy hardware AV1 encoding of the video you will have to disable Xe and revert to i915. You can choose one or the other.
There is a little hope for i915 to fake sparse rendering support (for games that don’t really use it, yet expect the feature flag). But you will still be stuck with last gen driver performance unless the optimizations are back-ported somehow.
