I was offered an Intel Arc graphics card, but I couldn’t find any information about how they work with Linux that was less than 7 months old. Any of you know how well Arc GPUs are currently working on Linux?
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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
