Awesome to see someone doing linux + arc content on youtube (also with a great taste in games)! Unfortunately it seems like we still have some way to go in terms of performance but I guess its only going to get better!
Great video! Maybe the only one doing arc Linux videos. With the upcoming release of meteor Lake we can guess that things will get much better in relation to the drivers on Linux
Ha! I want people to see that Linux is a viable option, at least in a good amount of cases, to be used on new hardware, as a primary machine. Nothing wrong with dual booting as well, though look at a guide on doing that if you want to try that. Anyways, thanks for watching!
I get the same weirdness with the 6700 XT. Still shows high usage, but it downclocks itself randomly for no apparent reason. Happens mostly in BL3 though, solved it by locking the game to 60 FPS to avoid the stuttering from the frame drops. Annoyingly it does not happen in more taxing games. Nice tests altogether. IMO should have included some BL3 gameplay, the canned bench is not representative for most of the game. Alchemist is still way off performance-wise, hopefully Battlemage will be much better. Great to see Intel is putting a lot of work into the drivers.
Yep, that's the best route to go if you want to use older hardware because you can mod the bios and add re-bar capabilities, though those Xeons can consume a lot of electricity. Theres a big gap in power between the A380 and the A580, and right now you can't play most if not all DX12 games out of the box on Linux with Arc. I haven't seen many A580s lately, and they are pretty close in price with A750s, at least when the A750 goes on sale, so keep that in mind.
I think @kasmbilgin4620 may be referring to the addition of Sparse Binding support in Intel's implementation of Vulkan (ANV) as reported in this Phoronix article: www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-i915-Sparse-Mesa-24.0 Though, my understanding is that this will only really effect newer games, though I hope this integration does bring an uplift across many more games on Linux. As far as the Xe driver being 'rumored,' Intel has confirmed they are working on it, and their devs have been working on it for the better part of a year, and they've backported features in the current Intel i915 driver. Iirc, a release candidate is expected around December this year.
There's a good bit of nuance to how games perform on Intel Arc and Linux, which is why I'm making these videos. I hope you take a look at them and that they can help you decide for yourself if Arc's performance in these games (it doesn't perform very well in some games) are aceptable for you. Also, keep in mind that the drivers should continue to improve, so games that aren't performing great today will likely see an improvement in the near future.
I just bought an Intel NUC X15 Laptop with an ARC dGPU... Fedora 39 works out of the box but because Intel did "something" to obscure the control of both the iGPU and dGPU the laptop only runs on the A730M and as a result battery life suffers badly and I'm currently forced to use Win11. I'm hoping the new Linux firmware drivers that Intel has been working on for the past 2 years will fix this so I can use Fedora as intended.
Awesome to see someone doing linux + arc content on youtube (also with a great taste in games)! Unfortunately it seems like we still have some way to go in terms of performance but I guess its only going to get better!
Great video! Maybe the only one doing arc Linux videos. With the upcoming release of meteor Lake we can guess that things will get much better in relation to the drivers on Linux
The fact your machine has identical hw specs to mine makes everything so much better since I was planning to put linux on it.
Ha! I want people to see that Linux is a viable option, at least in a good amount of cases, to be used on new hardware, as a primary machine. Nothing wrong with dual booting as well, though look at a guide on doing that if you want to try that.
Anyways, thanks for watching!
I get the same weirdness with the 6700 XT. Still shows high usage, but it downclocks itself randomly for no apparent reason. Happens mostly in BL3 though, solved it by locking the game to 60 FPS to avoid the stuttering from the frame drops. Annoyingly it does not happen in more taxing games.
Nice tests altogether. IMO should have included some BL3 gameplay, the canned bench is not representative for most of the game.
Alchemist is still way off performance-wise, hopefully Battlemage will be much better. Great to see Intel is putting a lot of work into the drivers.
Awesome arc content on linux i was planning to build a rig with a Xeon e5 2650 v4 32gb ddr4, and i was in betwen a arc a380 or the arc a580
Yep, that's the best route to go if you want to use older hardware because you can mod the bios and add re-bar capabilities, though those Xeons can consume a lot of electricity. Theres a big gap in power between the A380 and the A580, and right now you can't play most if not all DX12 games out of the box on Linux with Arc.
I haven't seen many A580s lately, and they are pretty close in price with A750s, at least when the A750 goes on sale, so keep that in mind.
@@CompellingBytes thanks i would check for the a750 too
How bad is arc on linux compared to windows?
I saw the benchmarks and was scared of migrating to linux with my a770 :(
Its performance will increase greatly with the Mesa 24.0 driver. But the stable version will be released after 2-3 months.
@@kasmbilgin4620 Is that rumored xe driver? :O
I think @kasmbilgin4620 may be referring to the addition of Sparse Binding support in Intel's implementation of Vulkan (ANV) as reported in this Phoronix article:
www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-i915-Sparse-Mesa-24.0
Though, my understanding is that this will only really effect newer games, though I hope this integration does bring an uplift across many more games on Linux.
As far as the Xe driver being 'rumored,' Intel has confirmed they are working on it, and their devs have been working on it for the better part of a year, and they've backported features in the current Intel i915 driver. Iirc, a release candidate is expected around December this year.
@@CompellingBytes Meh, have to wait then. :(
There's a good bit of nuance to how games perform on Intel Arc and Linux, which is why I'm making these videos. I hope you take a look at them and that they can help you decide for yourself if Arc's performance in these games (it doesn't perform very well in some games) are aceptable for you. Also, keep in mind that the drivers should continue to improve, so games that aren't performing great today will likely see an improvement in the near future.
I just bought an Intel NUC X15 Laptop with an ARC dGPU... Fedora 39 works out of the box but because Intel did "something" to obscure the control of both the iGPU and dGPU the laptop only runs on the A730M and as a result battery life suffers badly and I'm currently forced to use Win11. I'm hoping the new Linux firmware drivers that Intel has been working on for the past 2 years will fix this so I can use Fedora as intended.