Intel Arc on Linux: The Game-Changing Update for Linux Gamers!

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🚀 Exploring Linux Gaming: Intel Arc & DX12's Early Steps 🚀
The latest MESA 24 release marks a promising beginning: DX12 games are starting to run on Intel Arc GPUs and other Xe-based products on Linux. This video dives into this initial progress and introduces a series aimed at examining the nascent capabilities of Intel Arc for playing contemporary titles on Linux.
In this journey, you'll discover:
The Role of MESA 24 in Linux Gaming: Unveiling how the latest updates are setting the stage for future advancements in Linux gaming.
Intel Arc's Emerging Potential: A look into the early stages of how Intel Arc and Xe-based GPUs are starting to support Linux gaming, marking the dawn of a new era.
The Path Forward for Gaming on Linux: Insights into the challenges and opportunities of playing DX12 games on Linux with Intel Arc, including performance tests and experiences.
👾 Looking Ahead
This video is the beginning of an exploration into what the future holds for Linux gaming with Intel Arc. Future content will delve deeper into tutorials, performance assessments, and progress updates as Intel Arc's compatibility with Linux evolves.
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@CompellingBytes 3 ай бұрын

*ADDENDUM/WARNING* If my omission in telling you where or how to get the cutting edge version of MESA-git isn't enough, I recommend that unless you have a designated partition or system for testing the new cutting edge MESA -git version, *you SHOULD NOT seek out MESA-git for use on production system, or in other words, a system you rely on.* The system I test on is exactly that: for testing. I wipe and switch distros and make new instances at will. Wait for the release of MESA 24.1 on May 15th and see if the update is available for the distro you use on your system.

@seangreenhalgh7921 3 ай бұрын

I'd love to buy one. I just built a new AMD PC though dammit!

@CompellingBytes 3 ай бұрын

Enjoy what you have for the time being. (New) Arc cards will be on shelves tomorrow, next week, next month, hopefully next year too :)

@xlr555usa 2 ай бұрын

Battlemage the generation after Alchemist Arc gpus should release by Q4 this year, which means Alchemist gpus will drop in price even more. The generation after Battlemage is called Celestial. NVIDIA and Amd are basically handing over the low and mid tier gpu market to Intel. With the Xess upscaling technology that Intel is building already surpassing Amd's FSR 3.0, Arc Gpus should be a household name in due time.

@Florennum_ 3 ай бұрын

are you excited about the new Xe drm driver?

@CompellingBytes 3 ай бұрын

I am excited. There's the short term excitement, and there's long term excitement for me. I'm really excited about the SR-IOV features that are coming with the 6.8/first Xe Driver release I've been hearing about mostly in passing up until this point. Long term, I'm excited because it's clear that Intel doesn't seem to be mailing things in as far as Linux support goes. Things are maybe later than I'd like, but progress is progress.

@Winnetou17 3 ай бұрын

Hell, yeah, I can't wait the new videos! We might finally get the Intel ARC cards to be (almost) the same on Linux as on Windows. Well, apparently except real time ray tracing, as that one, from what I know, works pretty good (for the overall cards level) on Windows. But if everything else is on the same level, and going forward, both driver stacks are in roughly the same update path and schedule, then I'm a happy camper. I'm kind of looking forward next year to get a Framework 16 laptop with Intel Arrow Lake and Intel Battlemage GPU. And, yes, I know, reality check - we might not have Battlemage descrete GPUs at all, or it might not be next year, or Framework might not have an Intel GPU module, or maybe even no Intel motherboard for Framework 16 either (as of 2025). But there's a chance, and I'm carefully optimistic for now. Maybe I'll be able to finally stop using my aging 7 and a half years old laptop and get a new one. But none that are now on the market are what I want.

@CompellingBytes 3 ай бұрын

So the drivers have progressed substantially, but they aren’t performing at Window’s level. Some games perform REALLY well (like shadow of the tomb raider) and some start and are still slideshows. What matters is that the driver developers are still working on improving things on the Linux side and hopefully sometime soon gaming performance will be on par with Windows performance.

@Winnetou17 3 ай бұрын

@@CompellingBytes Oh, I got ahead of myself a little :D But good news is good news.

@AlexeyRiched 2 ай бұрын

Can you testing Intel Arc on Linux 6.8 core and show us log from inxi -G what kind of graphics driver use for it?

@CompellingBytes 2 ай бұрын

i915 on kernel 6.8.7-1. If you want the Xe driver you have to load it

@saschapurner9579 2 ай бұрын

I love my 6 Arcs ;-)

@CompellingBytes Ай бұрын

Well you have to share what you have now

@hadoken8688 3 ай бұрын

What's the resolution of your bench :)

@CompellingBytes 3 ай бұрын

I almost always run games at 1440p for these videos because: 1. The A770 is a 1440p card 2. I want to see how card handles a primarily gpu heavy workload, as opposed to lower resolutions where the CPU acts as a performance and workload bottleneck to a given gpu.

@ALAK5555 3 ай бұрын

what about intel arc fan speed ? because we cant play on linux when gpu has high tempruture

@CompellingBytes 3 ай бұрын

I’m not really sure what you’re asking here?

@ALAK5555 3 ай бұрын

i mean we need fan gpu controller to set fan speed gpu @@CompellingBytes

@CompellingBytes 3 ай бұрын

@@ALAK5555 I think, assuming the default fan curve is fine (and we need long term data to determine that), it's more important to be able to change the voltage (namely, under volt) these cards. The A770 has something like 21.7 billion transistors, and things can get toasty, especially with the dual fan layout of the Limited Edition. I'm either gaming or not on Linux, and I think it would be great to dial in lower power utilization via undervolting when I don't need to push the card (which is probably 99% of the time, even when gaming). There's lots of horror stories of memory modules failing on the likes of Nvidia cards, and Ampere was a really hot architecture paired with GDDR6X which also got really hot, and it also irked me to no end that there is no way to undervolt Nvidia cards in Linux. I think fan curves are fine, and the real difference maker is being able to control how much electricity is flowing through the card's components. I'm not an electrical engineer so I guess you can take my opinion with a grain of salt.

@platinumsun4632 3 ай бұрын

I appreciate it

@CompellingBytes 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, I hope I can get the first video out by tomorrow morning EST

@jierenzheng7670 3 ай бұрын

Would you think by the time of Ubuntu 24.04 release, would the A770 be viable? Looking at the Framerates compared to Windows, it really looks like there's still a lot of work.

@CompellingBytes 3 ай бұрын

24.04 is slated to release on April 25th 2024. If by viable, you mean "play games at the same frame rate as Arc does on Windows in about 5 weeks," I'd say no.

@jierenzheng7670 3 ай бұрын

@@CompellingBytesGuess I will have to wait, I normally update about 6 months after the release to ensure most bugs are ironed out.

@CompellingBytes 3 ай бұрын

@@jierenzheng7670 hopefully raytracing is functional by 24.10 😁